Anthony Obi OgboCartoonsNewsNigeriaWest African Pilot News Editorial Cartoon
PilotnewsAugust 9, 2020
Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNewsOpinionReno Omokri’s “The Greatest Love of All…” Every Community Has A Candace Owens
PilotnewsJune 9, 2020
“You kept your knee on our neck. We had creative skills, but we couldn’t get your knee off our neck. It’s time for us in George’s name to stand up and say, ‘Get your knee off our necks.’” – Rev. Al Sharpton Even the dead knows what is going on right now, that the world has been busy, taking the knee for George Floyd. From the streets, states, and counties, to nation-states, and at the...
Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNewsOpinionThe Biafran Genocide – The Hell I Went Through as a Child
PilotnewsMay 30, 2020
Yet, here I am still standing, pledging allegiance to NIGERIA with all sense of patriotism—a nation still being governed by some of the leaders that masterminded the devastating genocide I survived 53 years ago. Evacuating a large family from the village, Achala, to remote farmland called Eziobibi, almost twenty miles away on foot, and through near inaccessible road-paths, and under severe weather conditions was not a joke. I was seven at the time, and I...
Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionTargeting of AFDB and Adesina by the US is Consistent With Trump’s Arrogance and Racist Demeanor
PilotnewsMay 28, 2020
With the pattern of duplicity and cruelty that conjures the Donald Trump’s policy actions against the people of color, tell me how these ethically malnourished oppressors can educate any organization about good character and accountability? For clarity, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is not like Chase. Nope, it is not the traditional bank where folks drive through a narrow pathway to use the ATM. It is a bilateral development finance institution facilitating sustainable economic and...
Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNewsNigeriaOpinionPortrait of a Nigerian COVID-19 Dictator
PilotnewsMay 11, 2020
The basic psychology of a dictator is entrenched in unrestrained power, fear, and anxiety. Out of anxiety and paranoia, he resorts to extreme vendetta which impedes the process and permeates his ability to make rational decisions. But there is one irony about a dictatorship that people always ignore. Often, dictators are created by those that would become their victims. In Nigeria, such is the case, because the man who currently serves as the Governor of...
Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionIgbos and Folly of Biafra–a candid rejoinder
PilotnewsMay 5, 2020
And I would affirm; that if the massacre of 30,000 Igbo indigenes were not enough to go to war, then the world can as well legalize genocide as a periodic sporting competition. And I would tell you, Igbos would bring home the winning trophy. As a matter of editorial principle, I avoid writing rejoinders; in life however, our actions are not just driven by values, but are sometimes triggered by unanticipated circumstances. So when Dr....
Anthony Obi OgboColumnsNigeriaOpinionAbba Kyari: Everyone Will Die One Day ─ So What?
PilotnewsApril 19, 2020
The mentality of victims of the social system during a pandemic invokes a persistent sense of vulnerability to their oppressive leaders, nonparticipation in the civic process, distrust of the system, and often thoughts of negativity. With such a hopeless mindset, it is excusable when they are excited over the death of those who gradually drowned them into the darkest sea of social wretchedness. Anytime a dictator or an oppressor dies, there are often three major...