The recent angry outburst by Mr. Asari Dokubo, the self-styled Niger Delta Militant, against both the Indigenous People of Biafra and its detained Supreme Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, over the recurring sit-at-home observance in the Igbo heartland is not just misplaced, but also an utter hogwash. Whatever might have informed such unrestrained polemics, Dokubo’s remarks about the Igbo observance of sit-at-home in solidarity with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu are all simply asinine in their entirety. In the first place, the argument that Ndigbo do not necessarily cherish Mazi Nnamdi KAnu or the cause of Biafra he has painstakingly elected himself to…
Author: Onyiorah Paschal
Not long ago, Mr. Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, wrote a controversial piece with the title NO LONGER ‘AN ARMY OF ANYTHING GOES’. In this write-up, Adesina argued, among other things, that the Nigerian army became a rotten institution aptly referred to as an army of anything goes mainly under the heavy sway of Generals like Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, Sani Abacha and Olusegun Obasanjo. He also argued that the same situation was not in any way different or made better when late President Umaru Yaradua and President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan took their own…
The recently and widely publicized news reports by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that the people of the South-Eastern part of the Lugardian Legacy known as Nigeria would, with effect from April 2022, put an end to the buying and consumption of Fulani cows is, to say the least, not only a healthy development but equally a right decision in the right direction. One reason for this being that there is no better way or non-violent means by which the cattle-rearing Fulani herdsmen and their killer squad as well as their patrons in government, such as president Muhammadu Buhari,…
The hitherto hyped visit of President MuhammaduBuhari to Imo State on 9th September, 2021, had finally come and gone. But, with hindsight, this would appear to be the most shameful outing ever embarked upon within the country by MuhammaduBuhari since his ascension to power on May 29, 2015, as acivilian ruler. Apart from the fact that this visit in itself was palpably marred by the ignominy of having substantial population of both the state visited and that of the entire Southeastern region staying completely aloof from Mr. Buhari-like would be done to a person afflicted by Leprosy- in an…
