Estimated Reading Time: 4A few months ago, I asked about Okonkwo, and unfortunately, most Igbo people think he was a hero. Newsflash, he was not. Okonkwo was that person who didn’t have the ability to think. Even Prof Achebe once said that he’d prefer if we were like Obierika. So,[Read More…]
Opinion
Oyewole Michael: Nigeria, A Country Without A Leader
Estimated Reading Time: 3“It takes leadership to improve safety.” – Jackie Stewart The senseless killings, incessant kidnappings, destruction of lives and property is gradually becoming our new normal. Or, it is not? How did we get here? Nearly on a daily basis we hear of one dastardly act or another.[Read More…]
Farooq A. Kperogi: Abati, Arise TV’s PR Show, and Buhari’s Dementia
Estimated Reading Time: 6That even the vaguest pretense to traditional watchdog journalism is in throes of death in Nigeria’s institutional news media was instantiated by the interview Arise TV’s crew had with Muhammadu Buhari last week. It was out and away a PR job that masqueraded as journalism. The questions[Read More…]
Insecurity: Nigeria, A Country Without A Leader
Estimated Reading Time: 3By Oyewole Michael “It takes leadership to improve safety.” – Jackie Stewart The senseless killings, incessant kidnappings, destruction of lives and property is gradually becoming our new normal. Or, it is not? How did we get here? Nearly on a daily basis we hear of one dastardly[Read More…]
Farooq A. Kperogi: Making Sense of Buhari’s Nonsense Now Senseless
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…]
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…]
