Author: Sunny Sunny Green Itodo

In an ever changing industry like that of the Nigerian music industry, not many can attain the status of a legend, let alone those who made waves in the extant time to be tenaciously remembered as such. But, our living legend and Idoma’s old songbird, Bongos Ikwue, is not only still being reverenced but his voice has also not lost its melody nor weathered. When I was a kid, my parents used to regale me with tales of Bongos Ikwue’s live performances and concerts. Like most millennial, I didn’t have the opportunity of experiencing Bongos’ reigning years as a…

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Penultimate Sunday, 15 August, 2021, the global media was awash with the news of the abrupt seizure of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, by Taliban militants. The insurgents surprisingly quashed the resistant Afghan security forces trained and well equipped by the West, and retook control of the country almost 20 years after the Taliban government was toppled by the United States and replaced with the Afghanistan’s civilian government. The usurp is most shocking in its barbarity, not just because the country will now be ruled by a terrorist government or the world now officially have a country govern by terrorists, but also…

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At the end of the civil in 1970, the then Nigerian Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gwon, said and I quote, “The so-called rising sun of Biafra has set forever.” But unfortunately, that sun has refused to be hidden forever because anytime we see the moon, we always remember that there was a sun. The war may have started in 1967 but in reality it started even before the independence of Nigeria. It may have also ended on January 15, 1970, but in reality it is still on, even till this day. The tragedies of the white man on black…

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Like Superman saving Lois or Iron Man rescuing plane, that was the man Abba Alhaji Kyari, the Nigerian ‘super cop’ and head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT). He was the replica of James Bond (a fictional British spy in the novels of Ian Fleming and the motion pictures based on these novels), a real-life Rambo and Commando rolled into one, and the Nigerian version of Captain America. At least, he was seen so until recently when he was indicted in a $1.1m fraud alongside five others by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Punch Newspapers reported that…

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As I contemplated writing this piece, I could feel the aura of laziness around me like a mighty gong on the neck of a town crier. But it was more of an internal than external factor. I had this conflict in my head: as someone who is apolitical, if I should be writing a seemingly controversial political article, but then it dawned on me that if we keep shying away from politics because of its perceived “dirtiness” or complexity, then questionable leaders will continue to go unpunished. But this article is not calling for the punishment of Nigeria’s Minister of…

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When the baboons and monkeys heard that the man who used to chase them away from the maize field had died, they hysterically celebrated. The following year, there was no maize, that is when they painfully realized the dead man was the farmer.  Sadly, like the ignoramus monkeys and baboons, many Nigerians today, are waiting till the country is no more before they will realize that Nigeria is not their problem. Never has Nigeria seen the level of anti-Nigerianism and pro-secessionist consciousnesses/movements like the legions that have sprang out in this Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd)’s regime. Today, we have the Biafra Republic…

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A wise man once said, “Human praises are ephemeral. Today they shout ‘Hosanna’. Tomorrow, ‘crucify him’.” While the wise man hadn’t the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, in mind whilst making the above statement, the statement perfectly fits into timely advice for the lascivious governor who has become the chorus of every money mongering political balladeer in the land. No doubt, Bello enjoys the rhythms and chords of the music of his praise singers and loves to ‘gbe body’ to it. But how far will it go? I have lived half a year in Lokoja, the Kogi State Capital,…

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