Two weeks ago, I've written on Atiku Abubakar, the northern consensus candidate's collapse in the PDP's presidential primary and the disappointment of Arewa people. The convention was historic, certainly because of the bragging of the two candidates, Atiku and Goodluck, and Mrs Sarah Jibrin, hardly noticeable on the other side because of the effects of the two heavyweights.

As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has added one week to the initially one month voter registration exercise, it is imperative that all Nigerians involved in making sure that the elections were successful. Especially, those in Rivers State should eschew self-destruct, indigenous factionalism, but work together, in indestructible solidarity.

Long before the actual conduct of the PDP presidential primary on January 13, 2011, the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation had raised several alarms concerning the apparent lack of openness and fairness in the entire primary process as well as the unwillingness of the leadership of the party to provide a level playing field to all aspirants. 

On Wednesday, 22nd December, 2010, the Director-General of the Campaign, Senator Ben Obi, drew the attention of the Nigerian people to the orchestrated confusion and obfuscation regarding the format of

The news around the world is saturated with the story of Bianca Ojukwu’s reported appointment into Nigeria’s government cabinet. Emeka Ojukwu 77, Bianca’s husband is currently ill and is recuperating in a hospital in Britain.

He was flown there about a month ago when he took ill in his home-town Enugu the old capital city of the Republic of Biafra. The overseas medical treatment became necessary because there is no modern facility in any hospitals around his home-town that could carter for his condition, medical stroke. 

For someone who started politicking way back in the early 1990s under the tutelage of the late senior Yar Adua during Babangida’s ill-fated transition program, Atiku’s recent antics and political miscalculations smacks of an inept neophyte devoid of common sense. 

He squandered all the political goodwill and capital garnered from successfully battling OBJ’s abortive third term, and severally defeating the do-or-die general in numerous court battles, as the latter attempted to unseat him as VP, then block him from the 2007 presidential polls.

While the much celebrated, venerated (well deserved, too) and most desirable “Mandela-way” is the most beatific solution for a most horrible African problem, it is not the South Africa experience which defines or even typifies Africa. That “honor” goes to Sudan / Southern Sudan. It is only logical that a programmatic and systemic attack of the problem of Africa should borrow from, or copy and apply the principles and practice that worked in

Nigeria’s Genocide in Biafra started forty six years ago and has been ongoing till the present time. Since the past seventy years counting from the Jewish Holocaust, humanity has witnessed these terrible patches of shame and man’s senseless moments of fear and hatred of fellow man. It is unfortunate that down through the course of man’s history on Earth that in spite of many laudable efforts by the well-meaning world community to

I am absolutely sure the text message was surely not meant for me. Because all my friends know my type of person and will never forward this type of text to me. But all the same my mobile phone sounded and when I opened the text, behold here is the message in Hausa language ‘Allah ya tsinema Cardinal Isa Yuguda, Reverend Murtala Nyako, Bishop Shehu Shema and Pastor Sule Lamido. Most Reverend Sunusi Daggash & Priest Abba Aji. They are

Nigeria has become synonymous with bloodletting, especially Muslim Northern Nigeria where these atrocities are reported with callous impunity all the time. These blood thirty vandals are not different from their grandfathers who perpetrated the monumental genocide on Biafrans in 1966 -1970. 

On 10th day of December 2010, the 192-Member States of the UNO and the UNO itself marked the 62nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Rights (UDHR), enacted on 10th day of December 1948. To

We, the undersigned members of War Resisters’ International (WRI), express our profound horror and deep sadness at the torture and murder of Nigerian pacifist, Chidi Nwosu, founder and president of the Human Rights, Justice and Peace Foundation, affiliate member of WRI. Nwosu, a lifetime human rights

The infectious, broad smile of activist Chidi Nwosu belied his serious and determined mission: to serve as an incorruptible force against the corruption so common in contemporary Nigerian political life. His brutal assassination on December 29, 2010, still unsolved and investigative by the Nigerian authorities, marks a

To: The Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Francis Deng 

Cc:  His Excellency, Honorable Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General

Our attention has been drawn to statements credited to Mr. Deng, the Special Adviser to the Secretary-

As 2011 remains significant to Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora because of the elections that characterize it, Governor Chibuike Amaechi-led government of Rivers State is taking the lead among other states governors in the awareness that all in the state participated in the elections. He has been

For about two decades now, scores of Nigerians have either been reportedly executed or detained in Libya. In fact, the name Libya to Nigerians has become synonymous to execution. Just last month, there were reports from some media, on the arrest of hundreds of Nigerians in Libya for immigration offenses, ranging from overstaying of visits to issues of international passports. These Nigerians along with some other Africans were

The Primaries have come and gone but there remain some clouds as to the fairness of the conduct of the elections in Nigeria regarding who won, or should have won, and those selected to win based on party’s interest and god-fatherism. To many of us, it is a moment of sober reflections of what the future holds for Nigeria. As typical with every Nigerian election, some States and party members are still confused on how to deal with this

Whenever one reads Ambassador John Campbell provocative but still thought invoking write ups about Nigeria, he has always ended it with the title “John Campbell is a former United States of America Ambassador to Nigeria. Out of curiosity I decided to check the internet to find out about the former ambassador before putting pen to paper. Information about John Campbell in Wikipedia has it that he was born in 1944 in Washington DC in America.

He was the former Ambassador of the US to Nigeria from 2004 to 2007.

Judging from the observations and logistic obstacles and problems witnessed during the very necessary and all important voters registration exercise, I think it will be best INEC explores the option of Nigerians Voting by GSM during the April 2011 elections. As ridiculous as it may sound, it is actually a very simple, cheaper

I feel obliged to write this piece based on an article I read in ‘The Nation’, entitled ‘I was wrong about Yar’Adua, says Bakare’ (Monday 25th January 2010). The title says it all I guess. On the waves of several public demonstrations and passionate calls for Yar’Adua’s resignation and handover of power with Latter Rain’s Pastor Tunde Bakare at the forefront, it is pertinent to remember that the same Bakare had proclaimed Yar’Adua as

Following the emergence of former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), on January 4, 2011, at the Eagle Square, Abuja, attention has fully shifted to the issue of what the no-nonsense General will do with power if elected president at the April 2011 presidential poll.

 

 I recall sometime in 2006 when I met the General at his Kaduna residence â a very modest structure on Sultan Road and teased him with a question: