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Omoleye Omoruyi February 11, 2022

Racism gives a fresh perspective of Nigerian tribalism to a younger audience

Racism and tribalism are not precisely similar, but those two forms of social injustice are based on hate, whether for a geographical neighbour or a certain race. They are both…

Op-ed Editor October 24, 2017

Opinion: In search of the ‘detribalized’ Nigerian

by Jideofor Adibe Nigerians love buzzwords - slogans that are repeated frequently enough, (and imbued with assumed values), that they begin to sound like established facts or self-evident truths. One…

Op-ed Editor September 24, 2017

Simon Kolawole: Ethnic pride and prejudice in Nigeria

by Simon Kolawole Riddle: Name the Nigerian ethnic group known for being “arrogant” and “clannish”. I will give you one or two clues to make things easier. They are…

Op-ed Editor September 16, 2017

Pius Adesanmi: Nigeria should have a one-day identity holiday

by Pius Adesanmi But for the giveaway that is in our names, I would have called for a daunting challenge: a national day of identity neutrality in the management of…

Ezinne September 15, 2017

The Thread: How Igbos should conduct themselves in these crazy times

In the wake of the Nigerian Military's activation of Operation Python Dance, BBOG activist and Co-founder of Transparency International Oby Ezekwesili told President Buhari that his leadership sucks and he…

Ezinne September 14, 2017

The Thread: “The only man who’s “balanced & objective” while his house is on fire is a mad man” | Igbos do not apologise for Nnamdi Kanu

It's burning on TwitterNG just as it is in Abia state where the Nigerian Army has taken up a stronghold. There's been continuous back and forth on political Twitter over…

Op-ed Editor August 30, 2017

Opinion: President Buhari still doesn’t get it

by Ikechukwu Amaechi After listening to President Muhammadu Buhari's three minutes, fifty-six seconds national broadcast on Monday, August 21, his first since coming back to the country from a 103-day…

Op-ed Editor August 19, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: America’s South is like Nigeria’s North and vice versa

by Farooq Kperogi It is all too easy to look at the United States and be led to suppose that it is impervious to internal divisions because it prefixes the…

Op-ed Editor August 1, 2017

Opinion: For Nigeria, we live and die

by Michael Ace A northerner died in the west by the hands of a man who said his fathers taught the sun how to rise, no one cared to know…

Op-ed Editor July 3, 2017

Opinion: Ahiara – The evil of disobeying the Pope

by Kingsley Ahanonu It is with sorrow that I write this treatise, and this is because the church has consistently been plunged into ridicule by what is an unnecessarily…

Op-ed Editor June 28, 2017

Femi Fani-Kayode: Buhari or a voice from the grave?

by Femi Fani-Kayode “All of us who do not speak the Hausa language in which Buhari allegedly addressed Nigerians are being told one thing: you do not belong here. Can…

Op-ed Editor June 27, 2017

Reuben Abati: Buhari and the Hausa language

by Reuben Abati “Baba just fall my hand! Ha, wetin.” “Which Baba?” “Baba Bubu, the President of all Nigeria.” “In the spirit of this season, may Almighty Allah (SAW) grant…

Op-ed Editor June 26, 2017

Femi Fani-Kayode: Is Nigeria a free nation or a conquered vassal state?

by Femi Fani-Kayode "I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves"- Harriet Tubman How can anyone describe Nigeria as…

Op-ed Editor June 18, 2017

Cheta Nwanze: There is something wrong with Nigeria

by Cheta Nwanze In 1997, Edmund Fitzgibbon, the Irish Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Warri retired. He had lived in Nigeria since 1964, being a priest in various…

Op-ed Editor June 13, 2017

Pius Adesanmi: Nigerian gangs and keeping crime in the tribal family

by Pius Adesanmi I've been paying attention to the ethnic composition of Nigerian criminal gangs with the corner of one eye. My non-scientific finding: our small criminal gangs are a…

Op-ed Editor April 10, 2017

[The Alausa Blog]: Governor Ambode, so Jim Ovia is the only Igbo person with a Lagos success story?

Over the past few weeks, you would have noticed across the major roads in Lagos - Ikorodu Road and the Third Mainland Bridge - there are banners on the dividers…

Op-ed Editor April 9, 2017

Simon Kolawole: Searching for the Nigerian identity

by Simon Kolawole Is Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, the Emir of Kano, first and foremost from Kano state? Or is he first a northerner, a Muslim or a Fulani?…

Op-ed Editor March 30, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: Ile Ife and the Nigerian tragedy

by Olusegun Adeniyi The less you say, the less risk you run of saying something foolish, even dangerous. In 1825, a new czar, Nicholas I, ascended the throne of Russia.…

Op-ed Editor March 27, 2017

Femi Fani-Kayode: The sons and daughters of Ile-Ife- butchered, paraded and now prisoners of war

by Femi Fani-Kayode Permit me to begin this contribution with an aside. The barbarians that launched a terror attack in Westminster, London, in which four people were killed and much…

Op-ed Editor March 25, 2017

Peregrino Brimah: Buhari’s failure to label and properly address terrorism in Nigeria

by Peregrino Brimah Okwumo Nwabuzor and Olisaeloka Ezike were sentenced to death by hanging on Thursday for killing a postgraduate student, Cynthia Osokogu. In Cameroon, March last year, a military court sentenced 89 Boko…

Op-ed Editor March 25, 2017

Dele Momodu: Heresy in the house of Oduduwa

by Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, let me take you on historical excursions today. At this unfortunate time that History is not a compulsory subject in our school curriculum, it is…

Op-ed Editor December 28, 2016

Opinion: Why tribalism is stupid

by Derin Adebayo These past few days there has been a lot of tribalism on display on Twitter. It was all started by the Tribalist-in-Chief, President Mohammadu Buhari who decided…

Op-ed Editor December 24, 2016

The Thread: “Before you start Igbo bashing, remember the thing doing you isn’t the thing doing the Igbos”

Igbos are trending on Twitter today, and it's got something to do with their outcry over the soldiers dispatched to the East who have mounted roadblocks and are allegedly seizing…

Op-ed Editor December 10, 2016

The Thread: Nigeria wasn’t always so polarised

Once upon a time, Nigeria was not so polarised. Once upon a time Northerners and Easterners dwelt in peace and unity. Once upon a time, religion was not a divider.…

Oreoluwa Peters September 6, 2016

#30Days30Voices: ‘The problem we have is tribalism’ | Man talks about the rise of insurgency in Nigeria

Tribalism is a major problem that has eaten deep into the fabric of the various institutions - both public and private - in Nigeria. Successive government have been known to…

UgoTalksAlot September 5, 2015

Why I don’t want to have an ethnic group

I’ve told quite a number of people that I would rather not be affiliated with any Nigerian tribe, I just want to be a Nigerian. Because of that statement, my…

Op-Ed Editor August 29, 2014

Opinion: Before Akpabio destroys Akwa-Ibom with tribalism

by Inibehe Effiong We are approaching another election year in Akwa Ibom State and the gladiators are up in arms against one another. Nobody is talking about competence and credibility.…

February 28, 2014

Opinion: Tribalism is the main problem with Nigeria (Part 1)

by Jerome Samson In the face of this quagmire, we can only identify one root cause of our national woes. Tribalism! We (Nigerians) are a cacophony of tribal singers! In…

February 6, 2014

Opinion: Can Nigeria be negotiated out of its condition

by Adagbo Onoja But, as things are today both in Nigeria and globally, can Nigeria negotiate itself without imploding unintentionally? Should it? What manner of negotiation would that be? On…

November 27, 2013

Federal Fire Service in secret recruitment scam (Report)

by Akintomiwa Agbaje Federal Fire Service is once again under intense scrutiny as it is said to have broken the Federal Character principle with the on-going secret recruitment undertaken by…

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