South East Nigeria; the Overarching Cries for Secession and the Ticking “Time Bomb”

Enugu—Three years after the young Biafran secessionist, Nnamdi Kanu joined the Biafran Liberation struggle, the south East Nigeria, a region characterized by huge deposits of clay soil and a topsy-turvy topography, has become a boiling pot of sort, for secessionist agitators who want a breakaway from Nigeria, the 103 years old republic made possible by the singular political will of one Man, in 1914 for what many today attribute to economic greed.

OBSERVATIONS FROM THE BUHARI-AMERICAN “HOLIDAY”

  

Last week, the political scene almost burst at the seams as it simmered with commentary on President Muhammadu Buhari’s working visit (some said holiday) to the United States of America with a large delegation, the size of at least, three football teams. And we are not talking about pot-bellied aides, operatives of the State Security Service and other faceless members who joined that train. If you are good in mathematics, you’ll come to a size of at least 100 heads who frolicked to the US in beautiful robes ostensibly to go see the Apothecary of Nigerian disease─ Barrack Obama who according to them, exclusively hold the talisman to move Nigeria from a third world Country to a First World nation.

Obasanjo’s Last ‘Dance’ of Shame

“Between age and Maturity is but a great chasm”-Author

Ever since he wrote the controversial letter late 2013, to president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan that literally sent tongues of fire dropping on the polity as they did on the Apostles on Pentecost day, General Olusegun Obasanjo, former military head of state and former president of the Federal republic of Nigeria between 1976-1979, and 1999-2007 respectively, has been on the media both local and international for the ‘wrong’ reasons. When he is not lambasting one political foe, he is seen in the gathering of political opponents romancing with them to send a bad message to his political party, the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP). When he is not criticizing the president, he is with  tongue in cheek campaigning for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) for reasons best known to him but which cannot be separated from how he has been literally shut out from the day to day business of the PDP and the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan both at the national level and at his home state of Ogun where his former ally, Buruji Kashamu has all of a sudden become his nemesis. So it is understandable, why the man has been raising dust like a fish out of water. He never imagined it will turn out this way. He thought it would have been business as usual. He was disillusioned.

Will Jonathan’s Goodluck Avail him this time?

No matter how philosophers and ancient thinkers would want us to belittle the terms “luck”, “fate”, “fortune” or “providence” in human existence, what remains as a fact is that this terms, have huge influence in who gets what, when and how,  and to a great extent dictate the general course of a man’s life.

The 'Curse' of Religion

First of, I must start by apologizing to the readers of this blog however few our numbers may be now for having left this space for quite a number of  time without any prompter. The reason however, to discerning mind is not far-fetched- Academic constraints.  With virtually less than four months to become a graduate of Law, it is only inevitable that I must have more than enough on my table to deal with (i.e. if I’m able to scale through LW502 Nigerian Company Law (1) without a carryover, no thanks to my abysmal performance in the C.A. Test. I insist you all don’t want to know how poor I performed; but we won’t be discussing that here.

A Chat with a Lagos Taxi Driver

When the luxury bus owned by the “Young Shall Grow” transport company finally pulled off at the Iddo terminus after several stops at Iwo, Berger, Ilesha, Ife, Ojere, Ojota and what have you, it was so obvious that the longest journey I have had so far in my history  of travelling have finally come to an end. A journey that lasted a little more than fifteen hours and one I would not forget in a hurry.

NANS and Student Unionism in Nigeria: A Contemporary Contradiction

“The blind leading the blind is not so bad, what is more jarring is the blind leading the sighted”

I had intended  dedicating this column to setting the final agenda for the presidential candidates of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), and in doing that, possibly analyse the chances of both candidates (since it has become clear that Nigerians will be practically making choices between either president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, or  General Muhammad Buhari) on account of how they have both led their campaigns and the overall perception of Nigerians as I feel it, only to be cut short of doing that by the INEC chairman , Professor Attahiru Jega’s spasmodic vacillations that finally led to the polls being called off to a later date, at a time most Nigerians were gearing up to exercise their constitutional right to vote.