Ekiti State: Political twists and turns and their potential for reversal of fortunes
If I were Oni, I would rather concentrate all my energies on strengthening my relationship with the Jagaban. What's done in Ekiti...
Ndigbo: Caught betwixt and between in Nigeria (3)
Without Awo’s invaluable savvy as deputy chairman of the Federal Executive Council and Gowon’s most-trusted adviser, it is very doubtful if Nigeria...
Ndigbo: Caught between and betwixt in Nigeria (2)
The war was more of an attempt to finish off the pogrom against Ndigbo than keeping Nigeria united.
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Ndigbo: Caught betwixt and between in Nigeria (1)
In the week leading up to the SMC meeting of Tuesday, July 3, 1967, both nations of Nigeria and Biafra were on...
2023 Presidency: Economics and politics of presidential nominating conventions
The APC had reportedly previously zoned the 2023 presidency to the South. But the near-certainty of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar clinching...
2023 Presidency: Farce or reality of brokering a united and progressive nation?
Atiku sees the 2023 presidency as his last hurrah and ultimate opportunity for a Hail Mary odds-defying long throw into Aso Villa
There’s just no killing the Igbo beetle!
As long as the South-East continues to be denied the equal rights and justice it rightly deserves as a major stakeholder in...
2023 Presidency: “It’s the implementable plan, stupid!”
At the risk of sounding pedantic, let me reiterate that the 2023 presidential election should be about who can best implement a...
Dante’s Inferno: Of allegories, metaphors and the South-East
Very few people would fault the postulation that today’s South-East is very representative of the turmoil and frightening beastly spectacles that pockmarked...
Ndigbo and 2023 presidency: Better late than never!
Above everything else, Ndigbo must be fully conscious of the reality that if we allow ourselves to be conned into entering a...