On Children’s Day, just BBOG!
It is the season to celebrate children, and that is happening in many churches and out there in schools and homes, culminating in Children’s...
Throwing the kitchen sink at Buhari
A new chapter was recently added to the agelong campaign against former military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, with the report that his...
Boko Haram is like cancer…the very aggressive type
Aloooha! Dear friends,
I wake up every day thankful for the gift of each new day. Sometimes I have praise or worship song bubbling in...
That attack on Ohakim’s house
The attack in the early hours of May 15 on the house of former Imo State Governor, Ikedi Ohakim, is as shocking as the...
State police: Idea whose time has come
The national conference has just entered its most critical stage. This is when all the reports, serious and unserious, minority and majority, submitted by...
The North, not Jonathan, must rein in Boko Haram
Two events concentrated my mind last week – the escalating violence in Nigeria with its mounting human toll and the coup in Thailand.
On May...
Transactional republic
Who else notices that many contacts with state agencies and their officials in Nigeria are always defined by transactions? These transactions cover the formal...
Chibok girls kidnap, terrorism and Boko Haram crises
Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief, Goodluck Jonathan, and his security team held an extended meeting focused, largely, on the kidnapping of the Chibok girls and...
This cannot be true; but it is
It looks so unreal; because it is so despicably nonsensical. No, it did not happen. It could not have happened. Or rather, it should...
Chibok: The joke is on Dokubo-Asari
Reformed militant and leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, did not only lose his fear factor when he traded his...
