Begging: The thriving business in Northern Nigeria

To those wealthy ones with large hearts, beggars are humans and deserve kindness for comfort, care and support to survive the odds. But others think the other way. Begging to some is simply a way of life, a right and a lucrative business culture that provides shortcuts to comfort and wealth accumulation with less stress. […]

Reach Out Across The North: A Sure Way To Nigeria Presidency Of Igbo Extraction

– A KEYNOTE SPEECH BY LAW MEFOR, Chancellor, Igbo Bu Igbo & Director Public Affairs,  Igbo Leadership Development Foundation AT THE NATIONAL FORUM ORGANIZED BY PAN NIGERIA PRESIDENCY OF IGBO EXTRACTION COALITION (PANPIEC) AT AIR FORCE BASE ABUJA ON THE 29TH APRIL, 2021 Protocol. The Background/Introduction May I begin by thanking the organizers of this […]

Dearth of Medical Doctors Hits North as Nigeria Bleeds 

A dearth of medical doctors is hitting the northern part of Nigeria as the country continues to bleed as a result of insecurity. National President of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Innocent Ujah, has confirmed this. According to him, insecurity was driving away doctors and other health workers from the Borno State, the epicentre of […]

Uprising in the east; uproar in the north – but Nigeria go survive

Nigeria is at a tempestuous crossroads. It will be a failed attempt at casuistry to play down the multi-pronged encumbrances the country is contending with. All is not well. It appears when attention is turned to one problem, another irritation materialises angling for notice. Nigeria has never been this tried and tested by in situ […]

We need new alliances – north with south; east with west

We need new alliances – political, social, and humanitarian concordat. But we must start from a foreground of truth to achieve this holy grail. Our history as dispensed in public discourses and by government hagiographers is largely revised and contorted to suit pacifist narratives. We cannot paper over our past of fissures, but we can […]

Food blockade of south by north — not in Nigeria’s best interest

No region in Nigeria is a self-sufficient archipelago. None is more fortunate in human and material assets than the other. Each region has its unique quality and contributes a consequential substance to Nigeria. None is greater than the other. We are like geopolitical sextuplets sharing one umbilical cord – nourished and oxygenated by mother Nigeria. […]

South-east, south-west and north will be biggest losers if Nigeria breaks up

The idea of having a near-perfect country out of a ruptured Nigeria is illusory. The composite parts of the country each contribute to the miasma of confusion that Nigeria is. No single entity is responsible for Nigeria’s problems. All the ethnic nationalities are equal shareholders in the failing of the Nigerian enterprise. There is enough […]

Northern Nigeria: A case of greedy leaders, fractured elites

The large piece of land referred to as Northern Nigeria occupies about 2/3 of the entire land space of Nigeria and despite all distortions houses over 60 percent of the entire population of the country, Nigeria. At the inception of colonial domination, ‘the British adventurers found already in place similar or even more sophisticated culture […]

North, South-South Leaders Renew Pre-Independence Alliance & Charge Communities: Defend, Protect Yourselves

Leaders of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and South-South Peoples Conference (SSOPEC) have urged communities to brace up for their defence and protection as the security situation in Nigeria is taking a turn for the worse. At a top-level meeting in Abuja on Friday to renew their age-long working cooperation and political alliance concerned leaders from the two […]

Stop harassing Davido over north’s insecurity – Reno Omokri

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s former aide, Reno Omokri has asked some Nigerians to halt harassing music icon, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido. The entertainer had in a post on Monday wished his fans a fruitful week. Reacting to the post, a Nigerian lady had accused him of not sympathizing with the North over the […]