Opinion

OPINION: OUR DEPRAVED SOCIETY

A few days ago a rather chilling and disturbing video emerged, online, of a young teenage girl cradling a recently decapitated human head. On her own admission she was going into the bush to bury it and she had...

OPINION: THE CHILDREN  OF THE NIGER AREA

Nigeria which derived its name from the 'Niger Area' is a beautiful country with   human and natural resources, and capability to pull the Black Race by the bootstraps out of underdevelopment. As a consummate patriot, Odia Ofeimum usually tells me,  "Nigeria  is...

OPINION: ARMY, IPOB DANCE: A RITUAL CEREMONY FOR A POGROM

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Rules of engagement are not cast in iron when it comes to dealing with security threats. It is instructive to make proper assessment, analysis of a situation before government deploy troops to a place no matter how annoying, destructive...

OPINION: BIAFRA AGITATION: DISCONTENTED YOUTHS AND FAILURE OF THE NIGERIAN STATE

As I write this piece, a military operation called Operation Python Dance takes place. Its target is a secessionist movement in Nigeria's Southeast, led by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This military operation is intended to clamp down on real...

OPINION: PYTHONS, CROCODILES AND THE NIGERIAN ZOO

Chains by any other name would still hurt as much. As a person I am a cautious optimist on "project Nigeria", although it is one that I put my whole heart on, despite the counsel of a statesman who once...

OPINION: THE BIAFRA/IPOB TERRORIST THREAT AND THE NEED TO STAMP OUT GENOCIDE

For the last two years, any constant listener of Radio Biafra, when hosted by Nnamdi Kanu, would have discerned three very critical themes behind his broadcasts. The first is the hate and derision directed against a group he terms...

OPINION: HYPOCRISY, POLITICS AND EL-RUFAI

In Nigeria, my enemy's enemy is my friend. That is what is currently the case in Nigeria as regards ‎recent political events, especially within the camp of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. People always want to say and...

OPINION: IPOB AGITATIONS: BETWEEN ACTIVISM AND TERRORISM

Until the recent declaration by Nigeria's military that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a terrorist group, members have been operating with impunity particularly in the South-Eastern part of the country. Before the skirmish and eventually onslaught against...

OPINION: THAT GOV. EL-RUFAI’S APC PANEL ON RESTRUCTURING MUST NOT BE THE USUAL RUSE

When, lately, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for trivialising the agitations of Nigeria's constituents for restructuring of the country, it only shows the extent of the reach of the clamour for the nation's reorganisation, and...

OPINION: 2019: ON YOUR MARKS…

When Nigerians talk about ‘2019’, we know they are referring to an event they believe will likely define that year – the holding of a presidential election. Several years ago there were also talks of ‘2015’. The year came...