NIGERIA: TEETERING ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE

By Osborne Iweka I have thrown in the towel and refrained from voicing opinion or even discussing politics as practiced in Nigeria. I gave up, not because I am immune…

THE DEVIL IS NIGERIAN

  A day after the unfortunate building collapse in Lagos that resulted in the tragic death of numerous school pupils, I was in a swirl of thoughts. I came to…

NIGERIA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: THE INORDINATE POSTPONEMENT

  It is no longer news that after maintaining till the last hours of the election eve, of it's readiness for the process, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) came…

A TICKING TIME BOMB

Nigeria overtaking India as the poverty capital of the world is no longer news. The World Poverty Clock, created by Vienna-based World Data Lab estimates that over 88million Nigerians are…

QUALIFICATION FOR PRESIDENT

BY OSBORNE IWEKA QUALIFICATION FOR PRESIDENT. The agitation surrounding qualification required by a President has been overshadowed by politics, we have left the main issues and are busy pontificating on…

BEFORE WE MAKE THAT POLITICAL PURCHASE

BY OSBORNE IWEKA The pain that comes with child birth cannot be wished away. The excruciating pain of labour is forgotten by the mother however, once the child is born.…

REBIRTH OF ATIKU ABUBAKAR.

BY OSBORNE IWEKA Social media is abuzz with the emergence of former Vice-president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Waziri Adamawa as the Presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party. The battle…

THE FALL OF AMBODE

BY OSBORNE IWEKA The rise, crash and burn of Akinwunmi Ambode can be likened to the story of king Saul. Saul did not esteem himself and never nursed the ambition…

EVERYTHING IS ALRIGHT WITH AND IN NIGERIA

BY OSBORNE IWEKA Nigeria can be likened to an Ostrich that buries its head in the sand and thinks no one can see it. We wish away and 'prophetically' proclaim…

AMBODE AND THE KING MAKERS

BY OSBORNE IWEKA The current travails of Akinwunmi Ambode is a pointer to the emptiness that prevails in our political practice and space. Our political clime is devoid of ideologies.…