Fulani Herdsmen & The British Legacy of Guilt
Fulani Herdsmen & the British Legacy of Guilt “Guilt by community association” (GBCA) is back in Nigeria in fresh form in 2018. Not by the actions of a foreign colonialist.…
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Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership 2
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership 2: Questions & Answers. “Federalism” and “restructuring” and related terms are all political jargon. It means they are not so easy to understand by non-specialists and…
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership “Restructuring”; its meaning is debatable, and for many, it is about oil, resource control. Surprisingly, many see resource control as the receipt of an increased top-up…
Pirate-Captain Entities and Democracy
Pirate-Captain Entities and Democracy There is a keen fascination among young men, most at leading schools and universities around the world, with the “captain-pirate” mode. Its germ is of rebellion…
Ayittey Benchmark: Performance of Presidents
Ayittey Benchmark: Performance of Presidents. How else do you measure it? There are many able Nigerian analysts, commentators, pundits, academics and journalists who have rightfully earned a say in the…
Urhobo Blow (UB): A True Martial Art?
Urhobo Blow (UB): A True Martial Art? Enter Urhobo Blow (UB), Ubi edje or Ohonre r’ubi . It is an ancient traditional martial art developed by the Urhobos for military…
“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari’s Only Hope
“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari’s Only Hope There is an insightful article for those interested in governance by Taiwo Makinde titled Problems of Policy Implementation in Developing Nations: The Nigerian…
Yankius on $16 billion for Electricity
Yankius on $16 billion for Electricity Tafia Hallelujah: Yankikpuzi! Way say you now! Yankius: Any time you come around here, I know you have a quarrel for me. What is…
Gowon & Babangida: Nigeria’s Drug Culture 2
Gowon & Babangida: Nigeria’s Drug Culture 2 I reject the claim the article titled Gowon and Babangida Created Nigeria’s Drug Culture, which I wrote is guilty of appropriating unnecessary blame…
Gowon and Babangida: Nigeria’s Drug Culture
Gowon and Babangida Created Nigeria’s Drug Culture Access to drugs policies have been most responsible for either a rise or decline in the demography of drug addicts in Nigeria. A…
The Portrait of a Nigerian Druggie Youth
The Portrait of a Nigerian Druggie Youth Inspect the photograph. In the photograph, you can see the portrait of a young teenager in a blue T-shirt (the Boy in blue)…
Sapele’s Youth Drug Addiction Epidemic
Sapele’s Youth Drug Addiction Epidemic: It is alarming. One must wonder what happened to a once genial and hope-filled town called Sapele. It was a youth’s town and youngsters had…
Buhari Should Sell Nigerian Youths As Slaves
Buhari Should Sell Nigerian Youths As Slaves President Buhari, like many past Nigerian heads of state, is living proof of why slavery flourished along the coast of West Africa a…
Nigeria Lies: Recovering Loot
Nigeria Lies: Recovering Loot It is very brazen political lying to equate the refund of stolen funds to the state with political success or successful anti-corruption. Effective correction, detection and…
Yankius: Omo-Agege na Pyrate
Yankius: Omo-Agege na Pyrate Jovo Yurip: Yankius, which ones now? Why you no tell me say Senator Ovie Omo-Agege na Pyrate? You bad O! Yankius: Jovo, look my eye well.…
Do The Urhobos Need Saviours or Leaders?
Do The Urhobos Need Saviours or Leaders? At the moment the Urhobo nation is both essentially saviourless and leaderless, forget the ethnic bosses. Chiefs Mukoro Mowoe, Michael Ibru, David Ejoor,…
The Urhobos Do Come Last – Mostly in Politics
The Urhobos Do Come Last – Mostly in Politics As ridiculous as it may sound, if Anioma were to be granted a State today, the new capital of Delta State…
Remembering Ayo Odebisi: His Lessons
Remembering Ayo Odebisi (Paramole): His Lessons It has been one year since Ayo Odebisi went on another kind of going abroad trip. When I heard and looked at his photo,…
Understanding Akpunwaism
Understanding Akpunwaism Akpunwaism is a cultural reaction to defeat and the subaltern status of an ethnic or regional group within a state. Akpunwaism is unique to the Igbo ethnic group,…
Nigeria Needs Strong Social Movements
Nigeria Needs Strong Social Movements Voting, votes and honest election results are not enough to prevent elected officials from misbehaving or misgoverning once they get into office. Constitutional checks and…
Yankius: Sweetness of Sex
Yankius: Sweetness of Sex Yankius: Heeeyyy!!! Prickson, himself! The Sexual Man! Expert on Practical Urology! How you doing, Brother? You look so happy, man! Another sweet honey don confuse you?…
Nigeria Decivilising
Nigeria Decivilising The complete metamorphosis of the butterfly is a thoroughly adequate analogy for civilisation: the gradual progression from egg to slug to pupa to imago . In the Nigerian…
Nigeria Needs a Fearsome Electorate
Nigeria Needs a Fearsome Electorate Nigerians have, with habitual ease, allowed corrupt leaders and kakistocrats to enter positions of power and govern them. Either through coup d’état or fraudulent ballots.…
Oppression: Some Questions
Oppression: Some Questions Knowing that one is living with oppression is a blessing whenever it decides to come. Not knowing it is a curse that will forever leave one much…
Nigeria Needs Serious Politicians
Nigeria Needs Serious Politicians A photograph of Hon Evance Ivwurie, Delta State legislator, appeared on Facebook a couple of years ago that uncannily emitted a tangible glimmer of hope out…
Yankius on Ogboni Society
Yankius on Ogboni Society Alagba Aligbi: Yankiomelogbish! How now? You self na hard man O! Person no dey see your headlight again. Are you okay? Yankius: Gba Gbi,nothing do me.…
Oppression: A Nigerian Youth Metaphor
Oppression: A Nigerian Youth Metaphor “Those who have come to know and trust death embrace it with love. It is the very foundation of freedom. Oppressors love no one, not…
Obasanjo is neither Fulani nor Igbo
Obasanjo is neither Fulani nor Igbo In 2012 an Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) operative intimated to me very intensely that the then President Olusegun Obasanjo was a traitor to the…
Yankius: Iyabo Obasanjo For President
Yankiu: Iyabo Obasanjo For President and what not. Another wahala! Natural Injection: O mi Yankius, which ones? I know say you go don dissect the open letter when Obasanjo send…
Who Will the EFCC Cadet Graduates Serve?
Who Will the EFCC Cadet Graduates Serve? People when no dey happy, people when know dey look – Fela Kuti, Overtake don Overtake Last week Ibrahim Malu, the acting chairperson…