Tag: tribalism
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
#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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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? ...
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 ...
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