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Ikemba Goes Home!!!
Dikedioranma Ndigbo goes home leaving behind Nigeria sharply divided the way he saw it in 1966. Dead bodies of kids, pregnant women and breadwinners he
ROT IN NNPC: WHAT THE PRESIDENCY DOES NOT WANT TO HEAR? By: Ifeanyi Izeze
The recent 12-member committee set up by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to enthrone according to her, “transparency and sanitize activities in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)” could best be described for what it was- a step in deceit....IS SUNTAI SETTING STAGE FOR UNREST IN TARABA? By- MUSA AGYO
Taraba state is unarguable one of the most peaceful states in the country and possibly the most peaceful state in the entire northern zone. This...TO IGBO LEADERS: YOU ARE INEXCUSABLE. By Ikechukwu Enyiagu,
Twice I have written to those who lead my people “ to Igbo leaders and Governors; now, I'm writing again. When I first wrote, it...NDI IGBO & A CULTURE OF VICTIMHOOD... By: Tochukwu Ezukanma
I get an extraordinary thrill from writing. Writing is cathartic. It allows me a vent for my deepest feelings and emotions. It enables me to speak from the depth of my soul and the core of my being....
THE SSS AND THE RE-ARREST OF KABIRU SOKOTO By Idang Alibi
The reported re-arrest of escapee Boko Haram kingpin, Kabiru Sokoto, over the weekend has, no doubt, come as a huge relief to millions of Nigeria who have every cause to be apprehensive that the man was allowed to have slipped away in the first place. ...
SOYINKA, ISLAMIZED AND CHRISTIANIZED GOD… By: Odimegwu Onwumere
Organized religionists in Nigeria are running into aggressive mentality causing a devastating approach to the unity of Nigeria. ...
ELRUFAI’S AMNESIA: THE DAY BOKO HARAM WORE JEANS... By:Ross Alabo-George
I hear from good sources that while the arrest of Kabiru Sokoto the Niger-Sahel militant’ was welcome by many Nigerians as good news, some had gloomy faces and tried to force a smile. One such people may have been Mallam Nasiru Elrufai. ...WHY WE SUFFER WHAT WE SUFFER (PART I) By Kazeem Azeez Idowu*
Nigeria is an interesting place to live and perhaps, that is the one reason most Nigerians are yet to be tired of living there. ...War Is Imminent In Nigeria But God Forbid (3)
War Is Imminent In Nigeria But God Forbid (3) I have been compelled to write once again as Joe Igbokwe, and as usual I speak strictly for myself. My philosophy of service to humanity has pushed me again to speak the truth to power in Nigeria due to repeated primitive, senseless and idiotic threats and attacks to the sovereignty of Nigeria by the Boko Haram sect in Northern Nigeria. ...Injustice reigns in RSUST as management razes students’ mosque, arrest students By: Muhammed Abdullahi
In Animal Farms, George Orwell symbolically captured how, in an ‘egalitarian society’ where all beings enjoy equality, some animals can actually be ‘more equal than others’. ...AS MURTALA NYAKO WINS By: RAHEEM OLUWAFUNMINIYI
The gubernatorial election held last Saturday will go down in history as the freest and fairest in Adamawa state. ...Before Religion Derails Nigeria By: Chika Odunze
It is sad to see Nigeria going up in flames. Very disheartening to see how religion is destroying Nigeria. My question is, can one live a moral life with religion?...Marriage Is A Very Beautiful Thing. The Family Is The Second Church. By Ikechukwu Enyiagu
The church carries God’s presence. It may be in the gathering of two or more. A single person who has come in the name of the Lord carries the church with him also....LURID DETAILS FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PROBE By: Peter Claver Oparah.
In the heat of the annoying crisis engendered by the Jonathan administration’s increment of petroleum prices on January 1, I had maintained that the albatross of the government’s position on what it fancies as removal of fuel subsidy is that nothing new in form of enrichment to the argument is being brought to the table. ...COURT OF APPEAL AS FATHER CHRISTMAS By: OBIORA NDIBE
THE proceedings at the Court of Appeal, Enugu which gave rise to the court’s nullification of the election of Senator Andy Uba who represents Anambra...WAR IS IMMINENT IN NIGERIA BUT GOD FORBID (2) By: Joe Igbokwe
Once again let me plead that I am writing this article as Joe Igbokwe, a native of Uruagu Nnewi in Anambra State , Nigeria and I speak strictly for myself only. ...CORRECTING THE MISCONCEPTION,MISREPRESENTATION AND MISINTERPRETATION OF ISLAM By: Abdulrazaq Oyebanji Hamzat
Goodwill AmbassadorInternational Human Right Commission I decided to come up with this piece from the learned Islamic scholars who had previously explained the said challenge...
THE ''CONVICTION'' OF AL MUSTAPHA-GOD IS NOT ASLEEP By Femi Fani-Kayode
When I heard that Major Hamza Al Mustapha was convicted of murder and sentenced to hanging by a Lagos High Court yesterday afternoon I was utterly shocked...
YAR’ADUA WAKE UP! NIGERIA IS BOILING! By: Obinna Akukwe
Yar’adua, Nigeria’s fourth democratically selected president. Yar’adua, Nigeria’s most unassuming president. Yar’adua, Nigeria’s most frail president. Yar’adua , Nigeria’s most educated president . Yar’adua, Nigeria’s only president with leftist ideology. ...
