Faking it to Make it: By Victor Anazonwu
As I sat down to write this article, news broke that two teenage sisters, aged 13 and 15, had been nabbed in the Akoko area of Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria, …
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PARABLE OF THE WEIRD WEALTHY FARMER By Victor Anazonwu
Once upon a time, there lived an eccentric but prosperous yam farmer. Along with his wives and many children, he cultivated the land diligently every year. And when harvest time …
Prof Agbakoba Receives International Research Award
Nigerian academic, Professor Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, was among an elite group of researchers who were honored at a presentation ceremony of the Georg Forster Research Awards for 2022, organized …
Between Wike & Akpabio: The Wizards of Nigeria are Confessing By Victor Anazonwu
African folklore is rich in tales of witches and wizards. One of the major narrative threads which mark this literary genre is that before they die, evil practitioners of witchcraft …
How Asari Dokubo Solved the Mystery of Unknown Gunmen: By Our Team of Security Correspondents
Under former President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s Southeast region, the most peaceful at a time, suddenly exploded in a wave of inexplicable violence. Prisons, police stations, court houses electoral commission offices …
BUHARI’S PRESIDENCY: THE SOB OF A BATTERED NATION By Victor Amadi
At the turn of midnight on 31 December 2022, teenagers made bonfires with condemned tyers and combustible materials from the outgoing year. Like miniature comets, firecrackers blazed through the night …
REMOVE THE LIFESTYLE SUBSIDY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS By Victor Anazonwu
The list of obnoxious subsidies crippling the Nigerian economy is endless: welcome packages, severance packages, housing allowances, transport allowances, medical benefits, executive fleets, endless convoys, security votes, forex allocations, estacodes …
CIVIL WAR REFLECTIONS: RELIVING THE TRAGEDIES OF BIAFRA, 56 years on (2)
Although the first gunshots of the Nigerian Civil War were fired in Gakem, Ogoja Province (now Cross River State) on July 6 1967, the roots of the conflict lay much …
Civil War Reflections (1) The Genesis of a Brothers’ War
(Culled from the book Elephants, The Grass and a Teacher… By Chinyere E. Egbe, 2022) There is a false impression that the most proximate event was what led the country …
Civil War Reflections: Reliving the Tragedies of Biafra, 56 years on
Introduction On May 30, 1967, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra as a breakaway, independent country from the state of Nigeria. This was the culmination of one …
