Opinions

The term Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is very misleading. NPF is a term used by some men and women in uniform who extort money from the citizenry for the benefit of the uniform wearer’s family. Nobody should doubt that Nigeria does not have and does not need a police force. Here are proofs dating only […]

Of recent , Admiral Murtala Nyako has embarked on a single minded and self-appointed misadventure of being the enfant terrible of Nigeria’s elected political class . I find it necessary at this point in time to respond to the Admiral in my personal capacity, and also as a retired military officer, a politician, a former […]

Sinister terror and hatred have again reached from the shadows to steal the lives of innocent Nigerians.  In Nyanya, seventy-two people were killed by a car bomb. Hundreds more were injured in the devastation.  Their killings served no purpose except for those who exalt in evil. The bomb blast quickly came and went like the deadly thief […]

So it happened again, the other day, in yet another unusual and most inauspicious of places – Abuja, the nation’s capital. In a continued orgy of indiscriminate bloodletting, at least 72 Nigerians were killed and 164 others injured by a suicide bombing at the Nyanya motor park. After running riot in the north, Boko Haram […]

Permit me to begin this contribution with some basic truisms: firstly that God is great and that He alone forges the destiny of nations and rules in the affairs of men. Secondly that He is faithful and true and that He alone is worthy of our fear and of our praise. Lest despair and despondency […]

A few days after the figures of Nigeria’s rebased GDP were made public last week, The Punch newspaper carried a very frightening front page story about a young unemployed Nigerian, Sunday Omotayo, who wanted to commit suicide.   The picture that accompanied the horror story showed Omotayo sprawling along Wellington Bassey Way in Uyo, Akwa […]

The recent arrest in Otta, Ogun State, of five suspects with human heads and flesh (in pieces) is another haunting reminder that the horrendous, dastardly and inhuman activities of ritualists are far from abating. The arrest came in the wake of the discovery in Ibadan, Oyo State, of a kidnapper’s den and an underground dungeon, […]

We have been reading the happenings in Rivers State concerning first the appointment of the acting Chief Judge (CJ) and now the CJ of the state. I am not a lawyer but I am a son of Ikwerre. What has prompted this article was the threat issued by Barr. OCJ Okocha, MFR, SAN, JP to […]

I couldn`t help it. As soon as the new figures conjured by Dr Okonjo-Iweala out of Nigeria’s “rebased” Gross Domestic Product exercise came out, I shouted abracadabra! Then I chanted, “Come and see Ah-meri-ka wonder! Come and see Ah-meri-ka wonder!” I promptly substituted “Nigerian” for America in that spell-casting ditty of itinerant tricksters that used […]

It is obvious that Nigeria is now Africa’s largest economy, a position previously held by South Africa.  After several delays, Nigeria finally rebased its nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which saw estimates for 2013 hitting $509.9 billion (N80.22 trillion) from $285. 56 billion. Nigeria’s GDP recorded an 89.22% growth, automatically emerging as Africa’s largest economy […]Read More

In the past week, my attention was drawn to the allegation by the Lagos State Government that I stormed the ongoing development on the Ilubirin reclaimed land in a commando-like manner, chased workers out of the site and also went as far as erecting sign posts proclaiming the land a Federal Government property. While I […]

This piece is not a response to the “North’s” position on the National Conference. I believe every individual or group has the right to respond to the conference as they deem necessary. Rather, it seeks to address the crisis of identity which is at the root of the Nigerian tragedy. Who are we? What is […]