Estimated Reading Time: 4 Government is a relationship – between the leadership and the governed. A democratic government, in particular, should not operate in vacancy of citizens’ imprimatur. A government needs the trust, support and goodwill of its citizens. Legitimacy is the reward for good governance. Any government, which by[Read More…]
Author: Fredrick Nwabufo
Fredrick Nwabufo: What is happening in the south-east is terrorism
Estimated Reading Time: 3 At a time when evil spars against good, we must choose a side. We either opt to be a part of darkness or take a place in the phalanx of virtuous knights. Staying taciturn while evil course through the land like molten magma from a volcano[Read More…]
Fredrick Nwabufo: Pastor Adefarasin, if Nigeria is a scam; then we’re all scammers
Estimated Reading Time: 4By Fredrick Nwabufo It is the bounden duty of every citizen to hold the government to account. In fact, citizenship is a call to duty – for the state. And there is no compelling duty which supersedes citizens subjecting their employees – the government – to scrutiny[Read More…]
Fredrick Nwabufo: The media and framing, Wakili is Fulani warlord but Igboho an activist?
Estimated Reading Time: 4By Fredrick Nwabufo The media possesses near-celestial powers. It calls into existence what must be and what must not be. It can actuate change and mobilise consciences to a cause. It can destroy, it can build; it can hurt and it can heal. Yes, it can call[Read More…]
Fredrick Nwabufo: Food blockade of south by north
Estimated Reading Time: 4by Fredrick Nwabufo No region in Nigeria is a self-sufficient archipelago. None is more fortunate in human and material assets than the other. Each region has its unique quality and contributes a consequential substance to Nigeria. None is greater than the other. We are like geopolitical sextuplets[Read More…]
Fredrick Nwabufo: Lai and the burden of spokesman-ship
Estimated Reading Time: 4 By Fredrick Nwabufo There is more to Lai than meets the eye. He is more controversial than he is understood. And he has chalked up quite a reputation for himself as an unabridged talker. Lai does not mince his words. He says them as they erupt[Read More…]
Fredrick Nwabufo: Eviction notices here and there will make us refugees in our own country
Estimated Reading Time: 4It takes just a moment of indignation to destroy; to cast down and cast out. It is easier to destroy than to build. And what is broken sometimes cannot be put together again. Why are we at daggers drawn with one another? Why are we at each[Read More…]
Fredrick Nwabufo: Buhari, now is time to speak to the Fulani youths
Estimated Reading Time: 4Leadership must be responsive to diversity. It is the rudimentary ingredient to fostering unity among variegated people. Where leadership becomes insouciant to diversity, every other thing fails. This is where the Buhari administration hit its nadir. The government abused, disregarded and mismanaged the delicate ethnic and religious[Read More…]
Fredrick Nwabufo: I’m a ‘herdsman’ — all herdsmen are not bandits
Estimated Reading Time: 4by Fredrick Nwabufo Crime has no ethnic face. When criminality is defined according to ethnic origin or religion, social cohesion is threatened. There are people of criminal inclinations in every group, race, place and religion. In fact, we defeat the fight against insecurity if we lend ourselves to[Read More…]
Fredrick Nwabufo: Like police like Amotekun – different name; the same affliction?
Estimated Reading Time: 4 We are outcomes of our society and our society is a consequence of our essence. We live by the governing examples and norms of our community and we cannot be more than what we settled to be — most especially when we are averse to change[Read More…]
