Essays

President Muhammadu Buhari On 6th February 2014 the Leader of IPOB and the Lion of the East, my friend and brother Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, said the following, “As they campaign vigorously for elections, you would think, they are coming to grow the economy, enthrone justice, breed unity and tolerance, love for one another.

Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa “Every bird flies with its own kind. Crows fly with crows and eagles fly with eagles”- Muyhideen Ibn Arabi. Muyhideen Ibn Arabi (1165 AD -1240 AD) was one of the greatest clerics, philosophers, teachers, poets, intellectuals, spiritual masters and Sufi Muslim scholars that ever lived.

Colonel Odimegwu Ojukwu You are either a historian or a politician. You cannot be both. And generally speaking Nigerian politicians hate historians more than anyone else because they remind them of a past that they would rather bury and forget. Today I am speaking and writing not as a politician but as a historian, a

“Nigeria’s a typical West African mess of a country, only bigger and meaner. It’s divided up the usual way: the coastal tribes are Christianized from sucking up to the European colonists. The further inland you go, the drier, hungrier and more Islamic it gets. The Brits grabbed the Nigerian coastline from the Portuguese when they

Chief Moshood Abiola Today is June 12th, our nation’s Democracy Day and I have some home truths to tell. The struggle for June 12th was indeed a noble, worthy, cataclysmic and monumental one. It was also something of a nightmare which littered our fields with many corpses and soaked the very foundation of our nation

“History teaches us of the danger of being afraid to speak truth to power”- Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, 2nd June 2019. Pastor William Kumuyi, who says we should not attack President Muhammadu Buhari, has much to learn from these words. If the world had remained silent in the face of Hitler’s Nazis we would

May 30th, 2019 represents the 52nd anniversary of the declaration of the Republic of Biafra. I have written the following contribution to help mark that day. I hope it goes a long way to show where and when the trouble and challenges all started. I also hope that it widens and stimulates the debate about

For your own sake and for the sake of your family and nation please take what you are about to read very seriously and please endeavour to read it to the end. Take it or leave it, this is my final warning and admonition to the good people of my beloved country Nigeria. After this

‘Lord of the Rings’ by J.R.R. Tolkien is my favourite book. This is followed by C.S. Lewis’ ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ which, like ‘Lord of the Rings’, was also made into a blockbuster Hollywood movie a few years ago titled “The Chronicles of Narnia”. George R. R. Martin’s ‘A Song of Ice