Opinion

Well over thirty-six years ago, in 1982, the year Bobi Wine was born, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni was busy commanding the war that eventually led him to power. At 36, Museveni had run for president in 1980 as a rabble-rouser representing the new Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM).

His party did not even stand an outside chance of winning the election, with Milton Obote’s Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) and Paul Ssemogerere’s Democratic Party (DP) being the hot favourites. In the end, Museveni even failed to win his own parliamentary seat. During the campaigns, he had warned that he would start a …

The imbalance between the rich and the poor is one of the oldest and most fatal ailments of all republics. This is thrown into more retrospect when the lavish lifestyle and lassiez faire attitude of the nouveau rich Nigerian politicians are put into focus.

The year 2020 saw the whole world reclining because of the hit from the novel COVID-19 pandemic. Countries went into lockdown and economies crashed, many lives were also lost as the virus rampaged from one continent to the other. Although African countries weren’t hit the most, the effects were felt nevertheless in form of crumbling economy, …

Indeed there was a country… and there was also the Biafra Football Club.

In the dying months of the breakaway Republic of Biafra, a group of idealistic young football lovers gathered together in Valls, Barcelona (Spain) to honour the heroic struggle of The Biafrans. They created a symbolic pennant and founded the Biafra Football club in order to draw world attention to the plight of Biafra, using one of the most potent methods known to humanity…Football. CF Biafra had about a hundred players from Reus to Pla, from Nulles to Tarragona they settled in El Vilar, within the federated amateur …

53 years after the Nigerian-Biafran war, old wounds have not healed. The consequences of the violence and hate born during the war between the Igbos and their fellow Nigerians have not died out completely. Many hearts are still hurting. Many souls are still troubled. Many born after the war are looking for answers to their questions.

The Nigerian Government has left many questions unanswered. It has failed to render an apology for the massacre and pogrom orchestrated against the Igbo race before and during the civil war. It has failed to explain why it was so much engrossed in a …

Christmas Day just like many aspects of the organised Christian Religion is one that has been used to deceive many people around the world, most especially Africans. The issue of Christianity, Jesus Christ and the myth around his birth, lifetime, exploits and death have been shown to have a lot of holes in them and one of this major punctures is the obvious similarity or the rather duplicitous story between Heru of Egypt and Jesus Christ whose story originated several years after Heru’s story with a similar storyline.

There was a considerable amount of African derived symbols and stories which …

As it is with top Government officials all over the world, there are always aides, advisers and secretaries to assist them in dispensing their duties to those who they serve. These aides come in the form of special assistants, advisers, administrative officers, security detail and the personal relations team under which the media aides fall. 

The present Nigerian Government is one of the worst governments to ever be at the country’s helm of affairs. From President Muhammadu Buhari to his cabinet members at the presidency, the Senators and the Chief Judges of the Judiciary down to those at the state …

Nigeria is at a dreadful precipice. Observers of the country (International and local) and everyone else with any interest in her must be very concerned about what the fallout would be should she be unable to surmount her current problems. The problems are a complex blend of social, political, ethnic, legal and constitutional problems which now bedevil the country in proportions never before experienced in the turbulent and checkered history of this potentially great nation-state.

There is now a dangerous escalation of terrorist campaigns with all the hallmarks of insurgency. Religion may well add to the unending list of Nigeria’s …

Nigeria is bleeding, the blood of the innocent has been shed and the Nation-State is on fire. Hearts have been broken and the pandora’s box has been opened wide. The Government at all levels has failed Nigerians. Not only has the Buhari-led APC government woefully failed to live up to its responsibilities, but it has also unleashed police and military might on unarmed innocent Nigerians, the same people they swore under oath to serve and protect.  This police might comprises of the roguish police officers under different agesis who are being led by the led by the Nigerian Inspector General …

Within the last few weeks, Nigeria has witnessed the most tumultuous period in her polity like never before in recent times which clearly was due to the gross plundering of the economic resources of the country by the marauding political leaders; sadly, the situation is yet to be totally brought to rest because the Nigerian leaders have failed the masses woefully, and taken advantage of the very people they ought to be representing.

And because of this exploitation by the ruling class, we now have an absolutely deteriorated system in Nigeria where the interest of the masses is no longer …