May 2023

Ekeremadu's Ordeals Reality Check For Nigerian Politicians

Ekwremadu’s Ordeals: Reality Check For Nigerian Politicians

May 15, 2023 3:43 am

The recent conviction and subsequent sentencing of Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, elicited mixed reactions among Nigerians. While some were sympathetic and mild, quite a lot of Nigerians were full of condemnation for the jailed politician. However, regardless of the side of the divide one chooses to belong to, one indisputable truth is that his sentencing left big lessons for the ruling class and members of the elite club in Nigeria. 

It is no longer news that a court in the United Kingdom, a fortnight ago, sentenced Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and doctor, Obinna Obeta …

NASS Leadership APC And Their Love For Kakistocracy

NASS Leadership: APC And Their Love For Kakistocracy

May 15, 2023 3:31 am

Over the last eight years, Nigerians have experienced firsthand the phenomenon known as kakistocracy, although they might have never heard of it. Simply put, kakistocracy is used to define a country that is run and controlled by people who are least suitable or competent. Oftentimes, the term is also used to describe a country where governance is undermined by chronic corruption. The brand of kakistocracy that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) led government unleashed on Nigerians is one that was so brazen, so crude, and sorely insensitive to the sensibilities of Nigerians.

What the APC has consistently done since …

NYSC@50 How Nigerian Youths Unashamedly Celebrated Failure

NYSC@50: How Nigerian Youths Unashamedly Celebrated Failure

May 15, 2023 3:20 am

One of the most painful reasons why Nigeria has remained the way it is that Nigerians tolerate their problems a lot. Rather than raise objective issues with the system which has failed them, they often try to create excuses for failures while basking in their pain and suffering while fuelling its sources. To put it mildly, Nigerians love ‘suffering and smiling’.

Over the last few days, Nigerians showed up on social media to show the world why their governments and leaders do not take them seriously. They were all over the Internet heaping praises and adulation on the National Youth …

How Western Crave For Resources Destroyed Congo's Peace

How Western Crave For Resources Destroyed Congo’s Peace

May 15, 2023 3:11 am

For over five centuries, European governments and other Western collaborators have continued to consistently pillage the resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo using the same sordid pattern. They have stolen, looted, and destroyed the country leaving only traces of massive corruption, perpetual conflict, and state capture which has ensured that a country that was one of the most peaceful to one that knows no peace. 

DR Congo is an example of how badly colonialism, slavery, and corruption can destroy a nation. Despite potentially being one of the richest countries on earth in terms of natural resources, its people …

Trump's Prosecution A Good Way To Check Impunity

Trump’s Prosecution: A Good Way To Check Impunity

May 11, 2023 3:35 am

After years of baiting the law, Donald Trump has now moved from being the first former President of the United States to be formally arraigned on criminal charges to being the first former leader to be found criminally culpable by a jury. Regardless of the narratives, many observers have weaved around the ongoing prosecution, what is undeniable is that the whole situation has sent a powerful message that impunity can actually be checked.

Trump’s ongoing prosecution is a significant step towards checking impunity and upholding the rule of law. Trump’s Presidency was marked by numerous controversies, including allegations of corruption, …

Tinubu's Promise To Fight Corruption A Joke Taken Too Far

Tinubu’s Promise To Fight Corruption: A Joke Taken Too Far

May 11, 2023 12:05 am

Nigeria is an intriguingly bizarre place. It is a country where absurdities have obtained legitimacy and are oftentimes dismissed with flimsy excuses. It is a place where leaders detest accountability and often make blank statements that they don’t intend to remember. Little wonder why politicians in Nigeria make weird promises, before, during, and after elections that they do not even intend to remember. 

A few days ago, Nigeria’s ‘President-select’, Bola Ahmed Tinubu gave Nigerians a reason to laugh again after a long season of gloom and pain. His sense of humour was topnotch in Port Harcourt, Rivers State when he …

Why The Europeans Must Apologise, Compensate South Africa

Why The Europeans Must Apologise, Compensate South Africa

May 10, 2023 11:59 pm

Apartheid in South Africa was nothing short of a nightmare. A nightmare that was the life and reality of people of color in South Africa for over four decades, between 1948 and the early 1990s.

The Apartheid law in South Africa was a nomenclature to describe the racial reclassification and segregation that the country was thrown into, simply because the Europeans in their supremacist mindsets decided that it wasn’t enough to rip South Africans of their natural and economic resources, but to turn them into slaves and nonentities in their land.

People of colour in South Africa were in a …

Why FGN Must Release Kanu Unconditionally Before May 29

Why FGN Must Release Kanu Unconditionally Before May 29

May 10, 2023 11:29 pm

It is now barely a few days before President Muhammdau Buhari’s maladministration finally gets to shamefully bow out of office. While Buhari himself now struggles to comprehend the powerful stings of the ephemerality of power and the transient nature of power becomes his daily reality, he could still be reminded one more time that perhaps they are a few actions that he could take to reduce the moral burden he will face post the 29th of May and one of them is ensuring the release of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. 

Before President Buhari …

Is Nigeria Not Tired Of Wasting Money On NYSC

Is Nigeria Not Tired Of Wasting Money On The Futile NYSC?

May 8, 2023 3:44 am

Acknowledging failures and making necessary amends is something that everyone who is desirous of making an impact cannot do without, in the case of Nigeria, the story seems different because engagements over the years have clearly shown that rather than correct mistakes, the country reinforces and encourages them. How else can one explain why the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme which failed many decades ago is still sucking up the resources in a country that needs every dint of austerity measures to plug all the financial gaps it has? How else can one explain that very valid calls for …

Owed Gratuities And More: Why NLC Shouldn't Spare Uzodinma

Owed Gratuities And More: Why NLC Shouldn’t Spare Uzodinma

May 8, 2023 3:41 am

Imo was not perfect but she was not doing badly until the Nigerian Supreme Court decided in its wisdom to impose an unpopular dictator on over six million people. Almost dramatically, things went sour quite drastically. Then again, rather than make genuine efforts to reconcile his ways with the people whose hearts he shattered and whose mandate he stole, the beneficiary of that unholy heist, Hope Uzodinma resorted to high-handedness and blatant dictatorship, and the result is well-written all over the state.

It is regrettably sad that a state that once prided itself as the Eastern Heartland which conveniently provided …

Unveiling Prof. Nze's '1967-1970 Exposing The Untold Truth'

Unveiling Prof. Nze’s ‘1967-1970: Exposing The Untold Truth’

May 8, 2023 2:31 am

For over 53 years, the Nigerian government has managed to keep the TRUTH hidden from its citizens. it has made bold attempts to conceal the fact that over three million people, including women and babies, died avoidable deaths as a result of the brutal ‘genocide’ that happened between 1967 -1970. Nigerian leaders have ignorantly ignored the fact that the event is one that can never be swept under the carpet and the ‘genocide’ which it has continued to refer to as ‘civil war’ for political reasons will not remain a secret forever! 

Thankfully, the author of The Genocide, …

Imo Guber Race It Would Be A Sin For Uzodinma To Return

Imo Guber Race: It Would Be A Sin For Uzodinma To Return

May 4, 2023 3:56 am

The 11th November gubernatorial elections in Imo State will perhaps be the most important opportunity Imolites have to prove that they’re not spinless cowards whose electoral mandates can be stolen without consequences. Indeed, a victory for the incumbent Governor of the State, Hope Uzodinma will not only be an unforgivable sin, it is one that can inflict monumental damages to the aspirations of Ndigbo in Nigeria.

Prior to his assumption of duty as the Numero Uno in Douglas House, Uzodinma was roundly rejected by Imolites in the 2019 polls yet riding on certain dangerous wings in Abuja, he imposed himself …

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