Estimated Reading Time: 7As I pointed out in my Facebook and Twitter status updates in the aftermath of Muhammadu Buhari’s June 10 interview with Arise TV, Buhari’s thought-processes, whenever they’re publicly expressed, are often so devoid of basic rhyme and reason that to even try to make sense of them[Read More…]
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Mike Pompeo: The Persecution of Christians in Nigera deserves our attention
Estimated Reading Time: 4Every single day in Nigeria, Christians aren’t just having their right to religious freedom denied – they are being murdered because of their faith in Jesus. I have often spoken of the importance of religious liberty to a free society. It is a foundational freedom. No society that denies[Read More…]
Fredrick Nwabufo: Who offended Buhari? Twitter or Nigerians?
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…]
As the General’s Mask Slips Off, Nigerian Journalism is Endangered
Estimated Reading Time: 10On May 31, 2017, Lagos radio presenter Nelly Kalu was in the middle of a conversation on Nigeria Info 99.3FM with a geopolitical analyst when a call came to the station’s general manager. He was to shut down the show immediately and kick both people off their[Read More…]
Farooq A. Kperogi: “Fulanization” of the North by the South
Estimated Reading Time: 6Fears of “Fulani domination” have endured since Nigeria’s founding but, more than ever before, there is now an insanely unhealthy obsession with the Fulani in Nigeria’s South. The Fulani are not just routinely reviled with genocidal rhetorical venom, all manner of devious, supernormal political power is ascribed[Read More…]
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…]
Farooq A. Kperogi: COAS Appointment as Missed Opportunity for Unity
Estimated Reading Time: 6The appointment of my namesake, Major General Farouk Yahaya, as Chief of Army Staff to succeed the late Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru who died in a plane crash on May 21 is yet another tone-deaf but entirely predictable mismanagement of Nigeria’s diversity at a time it desperately[Read More…]
Yushau A. Shuaib: An Encounter with Gen Attahiru, Spy Chief a Week Before their Death
Estimated Reading Time: 6By Yushau A. Shuaib “Mallam Yushau, can you see me at Niger Barrack today?” – General Attahiru I received the above phone message on Sallah Day, Thursday May 13, 2021, from the late General Ibrahim Attahiru, the former Nigerian Chief of Army Staff (COAS) just a week before[Read More…]
Cheta Nwanze: Hostile policing, Let’s look at some numbers…
Estimated Reading Time: 6 On Tuesday, 26 March 2019, a police Deputy Superintendent, Godwin Oshiogbuwe, was kidnapped from a checkpoint along the Ubiaja-Ewohimi-Agbor road by unknown gunmen. His body was found the next day by a police tactical team at about 1640 hours. It had been mutilated, and his gun[Read More…]
Fredrick Nwabufo: South-east insurgency and the coming refugee crisis
Estimated Reading Time: 4 What fuels an insurgency? The combustible mixture of ideology and ignorance. If a clump of uninformed people has an ideology they can die for, they will do the illogical for it. The intercourse of ideology and ignorance does not follow logic. Insurgency ignites and thrives in[Read More…]
