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Op-Ed Editor November 29, 2014

@CollinsUma : How I joined the Kwankwasiyya Red Cap revolution

by Collins Uma First of all, a piece of (unsolicited) advice: If you ever have to fly into Kano, please schedule your flight to arrive the city at night and…

Op-Ed Editor November 8, 2014

@CollinsUma: 20 reasons why you should not vote for @BuhariGMB

by Collins Uma I have often wondered why people would look at General Muhammadu Buhari and say he is the best man to lead Nigeria. What have they been seeing…

Op-Ed Editor October 20, 2014

@CollinsUma: The Benue leadership question

by Collins Uma A friend of mine was in Makurdi recently. The last time he visited the town was over ten years ago. After he was done with his business,…

Op-Ed Editor September 30, 2014

@CollinsUma to @GeorgeAkume: Do not condemn a man just because he supports the President

by Collins Uma We are a funny people. We accept what we want to accept and discard the unacceptable, regardless of the size of evidence to the contrary. We are…

May 28, 2014

Collins Uma: Jonathan is not clueless, he’s insensitive (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma Jonathan has two options now: to continue shielding sponsors of Boko Haram and get their support in the 2015 elections or become sensitive to what Nigerians are…

May 21, 2014

Collins Uma: Fond memories of Jos is all we have (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma Jos was to me a place to find solace. The city that gave me a Degree. Now that city is facing ruin and political will to fight…

May 7, 2014

Collins Uma: We need less protests and more answers (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma Another question nibbling away at a corner of my mind is "Where are these girls?" Some say they are in Sambisa forest and that is why our…

April 23, 2014

Collins Uma: We will not infringe upon Nyako’s rights to associate with pigs (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma The PDP, through the non-existent Wendell Simlin and its spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, started this mudslinging. We have a choice to join them in that gutter or not.…

February 24, 2014

Collins Uma: Deaths and the dearth of governance in Benue (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma Benue is known as the Food Basket of The Nation and this appellation depends on the activities of farmers in places like Guma, Gwer West, Agatu and…

February 3, 2014

Collins Uma: Aper Aku – Greatest man to ever serve as Governor of Benue state (Y! Frontpage)

by Collins Uma The military coup that brought General Muhammadu Buhari to power on December 31, 1983 and replaced the civilian governors with military officers not only arrested this commendable…

December 23, 2013

Collins Uma: Let me give my ASUU testimony (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma Mr Nyesom Wike has been more interested in partisan politics and how this affects his chances in the next election cycle in his home Rivers State to…

December 9, 2013

Collins Uma: Ijele Anaa! – Mandela has always been immortal (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma Madiba Rohlilahla Nelson Mandela was Ijele. He was not mere man. His immortality did not just begin. He has always been immortal. We are fortunate that he walked…

December 4, 2013

Collins Uma: #AnambraElections – APC was taught a lesson on strongholds

by Collins Uma One of the most obvious lessons we learnt from the recent governorship election in Anambra is that the guys who make up the All Progressives Congress (APC)…

November 24, 2013

Collins Uma: Dear ladies, don’t bother, men don’t care about your Brazilian hair

by Collins Uma Even though he was the Anointed One, the Akpokue Dike 1 of Aguleri still ran a very good campaign, commendable by any standard. From the collated results…

November 18, 2013

Collins Uma: The ASUU strike affects us all negatively (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma There are Nigerians in their tens of thousands in the different campuses across the country who depend on the business activities within the campuses for their livelihood.…

November 11, 2013

Collins Uma: How to become a true Nigerian (Y! FrontPage)

by Oge Okonkwo As we progress towards 2015 one does not need a crystal ball to see that ethnic affiliations will still play a major role in determining who occupies…

November 4, 2013

Collins Uma: Blaming it all on Jonathan won’t help our cause (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma President Yar'Adua often went to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj and nobody saw any problem with that. Why now? We have pilgrims' welfare boards saddled with the…

October 28, 2013

Collins Uma: Stella’s Goodluck (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma It would be a bit understandable if the protection Madam Minister sought was after a job well-done. Why spend N255 million to protect yourself when our airspace is…

October 14, 2013

Collins Uma: #AnambraDecides – Between Chris Ngige and Willie Obiano (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma Politics is a hard game, and its vagaries can swing any ambitious mortal from one pole to the other. As a result, politicians learn to ‘pitch tents’…

October 7, 2013

Collins Uma: The Nigerian critic (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma This is the anatomy of the Nigerian critic. He is headed for doom who waits for the approval of these critics before embarking on a project. On Monday,…

September 30, 2013

Collins Uma: The need for a new class in Nigeria (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma The solution to Nigeria's problems do not lie in the hands of the class that created them. Voted for, they will only create more problems. This is why…

July 1, 2013

Collins Uma: A word for the opposition APC

by Collins Uma I want to believe the APC will constitute a good government in 2015. I really want to. The signs however, are not pointing to that. "...Obasanjo, Obasanjo,…

June 14, 2013

Collins Uma: Legislators should leave God out of the anti-gay bill

by Collins Uma Two reasons put forward by supporters of the bill are that homosexuality is not part of our culture and that it is a sin against God. No sillier…

May 2, 2013

Opinion: Chinua Achebe’s ‘Ikemefuna’ and the destiny of the Nigerian youth

by Collins Uma ‘’When a man says yes his chi says yes also’’. I am sitting in my friend’s house at Ogidi, Anambra state and I am looking around wondering how this…

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