THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND : A NATION WITHOUT VISION

  There is a saying that when the blind is leading the blind, they'll both end up in a ditch. Afoju is a blind person. In some other clime or…

WILL THE NIGERIA POLICE DECLARE THE NIGERIA ARMY A TERRORIST ORGANISATION?

  If you are not officially afraid of Nigeria now, then you deserve my sympathy. Nigeria is currently going through a crisis. From ethnic agenda of land confiscation to the…

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…

TAKE A BOW AND GO: NIGERIA SENATE ENDORSES MEDIOCRITY

The Ninth senate headed by Ahmed Lawan has shown itself to be a sick joke. The handling of the endorsement of mediocrity currently being conducted by that senate in the…

THE NEXT LEVEL OF BACKWARDNESS: BUHARI’S MINISTERIAL NOMINEES

  President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a list of his 43 ministerial-nominees, comprising 14 returnee ministers and 29 new appointees to the Senate. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, who read…

WHERE DO YOU GO TO SELL A COUNTRY?

  Every waking moment, for a typical Nigerian, is another attempt to fight against the gravity that shoves millions into the miry clay of extreme poverty, lack and destitution. The…

CHIEF JUSTICE TANKO TECHNICALITIES OF THE JUDICIAL PROCESS

When I saw Justice Tanko Mohammed carrying a hunter's bag, during his hurried installation as acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, in January, I knew that Nigeria had entered a different…

PSEUDO IMAGE LAUNDERING

Psesudo Image Presentation: A Common Manifestation in Under-Developed and Developing Nations. In June 1979 at a time when Germany was successfully thriving as a nation - they still are; former…

RUGA FOR “HERD-OF-STATE”

  President Muhammadu Buhari does not have any plans for Nigeria, except, perhaps the North. That is true. And he does not want to have a plan for the country…

NIGERIA’S FRAUDULENT INTELLECTUALISM

Are there intellectuals in Nigeria or they're all gone? A reoccurring adage, while I was growing up, was "The more you look, the less you see". But just like every…