by Dele Awogbeoba 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 Hausa-Fulani of the North and the Yoruba of the Western parts... Read More
by Alexander O. Onukwue Boko Haram was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2013. The process involved legal procedures which relied, as evidence, on the universally condemned spate of bombings and killings perpetrated by the organisation. The United Nations building in Abuja, Christmas day bombing at Madala Niger State and... Read More
by Alexander O. Onukwue The Nigerian Army has reportedly designated the controversial group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), as a terrorist organisation. IPOB will now be treated as a militant terrorist group by the army after a statement by the Major-general John Enenche, Director Defence Information (DDI) which restated the commitment of the Armed Forces... Read More
by Paul Olarewaju A psychological conflict resulting from simultaneously held contradictory beliefs and attitudes is something every human being experiences, irrespective of their nationality or race. This implies that humans have the tendency of acting contrary to what they know is right due to various reasons. Usually, when we act or behave contrary to... Read More
My president, I bare my heart out in this letter with great respect and humility. Often times I wonder if you read any of my open letters. However, I write this open letter so fellow Nigerians will understand the ache in my heart. I was about 17yrs during the Nigerian civil war. My youth was... Read More
by Soyombo Ayomikun Let us burn Nigeria down 1. So the ethnic deceptions Can end, So we can greedily share Nigeria Once and for all And part with her ashes, Ashes that definitely will be Bitter and Nauseating, Let us burn Nigeria Down 2. So the ‘oil tribes’ Can drink their oil Alone, So... Read More
by Festus Ogun The Defence Headquarters has labelled the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) a “militant terrorist organisation”. This was made known yesterday in Abuja in a statement by Gen. John Enenche, the Director, Defence Information. IPOB is an organisation that got its mandate from the Constitution. Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of... Read More
by Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, let me confess my admiration for security forces generally. It is not just because of the cleanliness and crispiness of their uniform or the famed discipline that they imbue in their members. It is because I find their job too risky. I often wonder why any man or woman would... Read More
TwitterNG came for Kayode Ogundamisi today, armed with receipts of his OPC past, in response to what seemed like a continuous aggression against Nnamdi Kanu and his group, IPOB. The receipts showed that Ogundamisi at some point agitated for a Yoruba nation, same way Nnamdi Kanu has been doing in recent times. What’s more, he... Read More
by Alexander O. Onukwue In the midst of all the attention that has been expended on Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, over her comments on Buhari and Atiku, little has been considered of what the First Lady, the nation’s first Aisha, would be making of it all. On one hand, Mrs Buhari had called... Read More
Kayode Ogundamisi is one of TwitterNG’s overlords. According to his Twitter bio, he is Canary! The Producer|Host of PolitrickswithKO; a commentator on Nigeria & Inter-Politics, and anti-corruption campaigner. Mr Ogundamisi has been quite taken with Nnamdi Kanu’s activities for a good minute; he’s usually seen tweeting about hate speeches the “Supreme Leader” delivered in the... Read More
by Alexander O. Onukwue As announced by the Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Jummai Alhassan, the eight months psychological rehabilitation of the 106 freed Chibok school girls under the Federal Government came to an end on the 14th of September. The 82 girls who returned to the country on the 7th of May, 2017 joined... Read More
by Peregrino Brimah Nigeria is full of hypocrites. Our activists, our mainstream media, our traditional leaders and our government. In June of 2013, the Nation bore the headline, “Buhari faults clampdown on Boko Haram members.” Quoting the article, “He (Buhari) accused the government of killing and destroying their houses while the Niger Delta militants were given... Read More
by Alexander O. Onukwue The official account from the meeting between Aisha Alhassan and some members of the APC state that the discussions were free of any fracas and that she has accepted that her “indiscretion” was inappropriate. Some other unofficial accounts suggest that there was a bit of raging within the meeting room, with... Read More
by Samuel Akinnuga Dear Mr President, I would be very sincere and straight to the point in this very short letter to you I have finally found the guts to write to you. I hope it affords me the opportunity to draw your attention to many issues of immense of relevance to the... Read More
by Femi Fani-Kayode On the 15th September 2016, one year ago today, I wrote the following. “You bathed in the blood of Biafrans, you crushed their bones and stripped away their dignity and self-respect just to keep Nigeria one. Now you say their children have no right to ask for self-determination simply because... Read More
by Alexander O. Onukwue While the jury remains divided on whether Mrs Alhassan’s open admission of support to Atiku Abubakar was ethical or not, there has been no doubt as to the impact her remarks have had on the image of the APC. Since its formation at 2014, the ruling party has appeared to be... Read More
by Alexander O. Onukwue The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Aisha Jummai Alhassan, was debriefed by the authority of the APC, after more than two hours of questioning at the party headquarters on Thursday, 14th September. Mrs Alhassan raised eyebrows over the past two weeks when a video of her emerged in which she pledged... Read More
by Jide Ojo Over time, as a media personality featuring on various radio and television programmes and writing for newspapers, I have often advocated for diversification of Nigerian economy as a panacea to our pulling out of economic doldrums. However, I failed to appropriate and adapt the same message for myself, until recently. I pride... Read More
by Alexander O. Onukwue Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: critically acclaimed author, thinker, and mother. Easily one of the most influential names in the literary world today, the young woman who began her writings from the same room in which Chinua Achebe had lived on the campus of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, has become an enigmatic... Read More
by Kingsley Moghalu Can our politicians save Nigeria? Let’s get real. The answer is “No”. They can’t. Certainly not the vast majority of the dominant political leadership class we have in our country today. Let’s just spend a little time explaining why they can’t. And then figure out, as citizens, what to do to... Read More
Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social matters, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. We make it our job to take down the names of these noisemakers. Here’s our list from today:... Read More
by Anderson Ofuzim Oriahi Debate is subjective. It is nothing short of a game of thrones; explicit, vicious and scheming with unending plot twists where there is hardly hero or villain, victor or vanquished. And the anything but “Greatest Podcast You Ever Did In Your Life” debate featuring Pulse.ng’s Osagie Alonge, Ayomide Tayo and... Read More
by Pius Adesanmi Wole Soyinka’s work as a teacher of his nation and people in the last seven decades can be summed up in one word: transcendence. His entire envisioning of Nigeria – for which he has suffered persecution, deprivation, abuse, insults and other unspeakable forms of punishment – is reducible to transcendence. The... Read More
by Okoye Chinekwu Paul “If I’m re-arrested, this country will burn, I assure you”. That was Nnamdi Kanu’s statement during an exclusive interview with Okey Sampson of The sun newspaper, published on Sept 2, 2017. I have always had a soft spot for Biafra and what it stands for. Having learnt all about the Nigerian... Read More
by Bayo Oluwasanmi These are heady days for Yoruba unity. The Yoruba Summit,which held last week in Ibadan, represents a milestone in the way forward to extricate ourselves from the political sinking ship of Nigeria. Though the communique issued at the end of the summit didn’t call for outright separation of Yoruba from... Read More
by Olusegun Adeniyi It was not enough for the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Aisha Alhassan, to say that she has pitched her political tent with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 presidential election race that has, for all practical purposes, been declared open; she also had to rub it in that... Read More
by Ololade Ajekigbe “We can all do with some level of praise and criticism. The key is not to get carried away by either” – Ololade Ajekigbe Before I click the publish button every Wednesday, I experience some trepidation. A range of thoughts run through my mind. What if people don’t like the article?... Read More
By Gbenga Odunsi For days, Gbenga Odunsi, a journalist, toured five of the federal ministries in Abuja, spending time with civil servants over the NBS report that Nigeria is officially out of recession. His findings show that majority of the civil servants do not believe the report- Nigerians wants to feel the NBS statistics... Read More
by Adeshina Peter The EPL theory of expecting a sack announcement immediately after the manager or a club’s representative comes out with a story of a ‘harmonious relationship and unwavering commitment’ is still intact, apparently. Frank De Boer becomes the first Premier League manager to be fired this season as Crystal Palace decided they have... Read More
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