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Days after EFCC denied freezing your account; no one knows anything about your position. Virgin Peter, I understand that you are in labor in the PDP’s maternity ward, but I will still ask, did EFCC freeze your account? BY CHURCHILL OKONKWODEC 17, 2018 Dear Peter Obi, on February 23 rd , 1927, physicist Werner Heisenberg first described his Uncertainty Principle which states that the more precisely we can determine a particle’s momentum, the less information we have about its position, and vice versa. On December 8th, 2018, the PDP stated precisely that your account was frozen by the EFCC to slow down your momentum. Days after EFCC denied freezing your account; no one knows anything about your position. Virgin Peter, I understand that you are in labor in the PDP’s maternity ward, but I will still ask, did EFCC freeze your account? Because you, Peter allowed the familiar PDP lies on account freezing to live, you went to the Vice-Presidential debate and ended up distor...

Dear Sadiq Abacha, I do not know you personally, but I admire your filial bravery—however misguided—in  defending the honour of your father , the late General Sani Abacha. This in itself is not a problem; it is an obligation—in this cultural construct of ours—for children to rise to the defence of their parents, no matter what infamy or perfidy the said parent might have dabbled in.  Read more here...  http://ayosogunro.com/2014/03/05/to-sadiq-abacha-on-behalf-of-soyinka-by-ayo-sogunro/

Even the bitterest adversaries of the Igbo cannot but admit that, as a people, they are very resourceful and ingenious.  Indeed, this has often been the cause of their envy and dislike by others.  However, more enlightened non-Igbo Nigerians see this as a cause for celebration. AMONG the different ethnic groups in Nigeria, the Igbo are without a doubt, one of the most remarkable.  So remarkable, indeed, that some have even traced their ancestry to biblical Israel, as the far-flung descendants of Jacob, the Jewish patriarch.  Gad, Jacob’s seventh son, is said to have had three sons who settled in South-eastern Nigeria. These sons; Eri, Arodi and Areli, are believed to have fathered clans in Igbo-land and to have founded such Igbo towns as Aguleri, Arochukwu, Owerri and Umuleri. Igbo genius Even the bitterest adversaries of the Igbo cannot but admit that, as a people, they are very resourceful and ingenious.  Indeed, this has often been the cause of ...

Dear Proudly Nigerians, NOW THAT THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO STRIKE US HARD, NECESSITY LEFT US NO CHOICE THAN TO STRIKE BACK COME 2015. Do we need a soothsayer to tell us that the governing bodies so-called government are our future barricades? Having series of conference to make sure our tomorrow is a blatant blackout. It’s now obvious to all and sundry, old and young, tribes and individual that they really don’t give a damn about the lives to come of Nigerian youths. What we’ve so far experience is an expectancy of when the selfish, self-centred reigns. I’m glad they save us the need for group-thinking and campaign on our stance as they have characteristically offer us the choice to choose for ourselves and generations yet unborn but reluctantly, which are to come. Obviously, they are telling us that ‘’Look Youths, if truly you yearn for true and fair-share of democracy and leadership, the path you’ve been turning away from, the hard choices you’ve been shunning all years long,...

Anti-corruption crusaders believe, and perhaps justifiably so, that corruption is an official language in Nigeria. The frequency of financial scandals as well as their dimensions in government circles, baffle even the most sanguine of citizens. Every sector of the economy reeks of stench from the rot that is official sleaze, and as it persists, it manifests itself in acute underdevelopment of the state, decayed infrastructure and avoidable loss of lives. The current administration, at inception, vowed to wage a war against the societal cancer, just like the administration before it and others before them. From the first military coup in 1966, every successive government had identified corruption as, not just an issue, but the major issue in Nigeria. And with such identification came with a few times serious, but most often feeble – attempts to curb the monster. Fifty three years after independence, ours has emerged a country overran by official corruption, so much so that many ...

The Archbishop emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, His Eminence, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to shun any idea of running for a second term in office in 2015. Okojie who answering to questions asked in an in an   interview   stated that if he were Jonathan, he would not run in 2015 “because the writing on the wall does not favour it. Making direct reference to the alleged “third-term bid” of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Archbishop, who decried flattery and sycophancy ‘in high places,’ stressed the need to keep political agreement, if any. According to Okogie, by 20015, the incumbent President would have served the country in that capacity for, at least, six years, the number of service years, which, he said, is enough for modest contribution to national development. “If I were Jonathan, I will not try it (running for a second term), because the writing on the wall does not favour it....

When people gather to discuss the future of   Nigeria , the consensus is usually 2-pronged. The first is that the brand of   democracy   we have now clearly is working. The second is that we are probably screwed if we don’t address our fundamental deficiencies. The third (yes, I know I said two) is that we need a benevolent dictator to set us right. The mind that proposes a benevolent dictator has probably considered that even returning to military rule would not be a bad option, giving how slowly we have moved since 1999. However, that is not a thought that we are allowed to entertain, as constitutional law jingoists insist on drumming it into our heads that “the worst civilian regime is better than the best military rule”. I think we can agree that the evidence suggests to the contrary. The world’s oldest democracies are in the middle of economic decline (yes, there is the argument that boom and bust are cyclical) and oligarchies like China and the Sultan...

It is good that our president finally woke up and decided to take a stand on corruption. His stand, however controversial, is still a stand and we applaud him for his observations. Like all observations the world over, there is bound to be consequences and I’m here to discuss the expected consequences of the saintly president’s pronunciation that Nigerians are corrupt. You see, the speech itself is a walk to remember in irony. The personality of the speechmaker is another aspect of the picture that is inconsistent with the observation. It is however important to separate the man from the speech if possible or we can just forget all the niceties and rip into him once and for all. After all, we are the corrupt generation and our every action helps foster the trade according to our OgaAtTheTop. Never mind the fact that the man elected to fight corruption, one who campaigned rigorously on eradicating corruption and who should be at the forefront of the fight to make Nigeria cor...

By now, every Nigerian with a sense of decency who has seen the video, which has since gone viral, of the  impeachment  drama in Rivers State should be disheartened. The power play that blew up after the crisis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum chairmanship election is inching towards an unpalatable conclusion. It is not sufficient that 35 governors could not resolve between their bumbling selves who won a simple election, the story keeps taking unpleasant twists and turns. It is increasingly obvious that as long as the “Ogas-at-the-top” from our corridors of inordinate power remote-control the crisis, there can be no fairy tale ending. The continuing skirmish feeds their insatiable savage egos; where the whole affair is headed is pregnant and nursing a baby at the same time. As the sordid tale emanating from Port Harcourt goes, five lawmakers, who were probably high on their own supplies, decided to “impeach” the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The fact that ...

CONTROVERSY is currently trailing the outcome of the South-West chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] leaders’ meeting in Lagos, during which delegates reportedly endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term in office in 2015. Feelers indicated on Wednesday that a number of the leaders were kicking against what they described as the smuggling of the issue of the presidential race into the communiqué of the meeting by some desperate delegates. The meeting came on the heels of a similar endorsement by PDP leaders from the Middle Belt and the South-South at separate meetings. Some notable PDP members, including former governors of the party from the zone, were absent at the South-West PDP leaders’ Lagos meeting. Some of those present, who craved anonymity while speaking with Nigerian Tribune on Wednesday, blamed the current furore on the communiqué on “some overzealous elements and fifth columnists, who were bent on jumping the gun since the president said Nigeria...

Let’s just say this event… never happened in reality. Let’s assume I made it up, in my usual hydrocarbon fuelled craze. There was a gathering of looters and semi-pious gangsters. So it happened that they had to vote for the next ring leader, and the incumbent head-man, who probably also has a Mexican name, was interested in leading again. READ:   Release the whole video – Mimiko challenges Amaechi On the other side, the side that had the backing of the Cap’n-in-chief, was a confused jaguda whose name rhymes with Jangirova. He-whose-name-rhymes-with-jangirova is known to be presently presiding over a non-ending gang war in the part of town he lords over. So the gang gathered to cast lots on who rules next. A gang member, well known for his Kangol hat (he had it on that day too), and who is a kinsman of a former gang member who is currently doing time in a foreign land, was called forward. He would watch over the cast lots. He accepted the noble role with aplomb. Very gr...