Scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode and demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures This concludes a rejoinder by this Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, who made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8, 2013 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations. Indeed the action...
Scholar disgraces Femi Fani-Kayode and demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures This Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8, 2013 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations. ___________ In the first part of an article...
Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the Igbo and the Yoruba. It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they were Yoruba and consistently lay claim to Lagos as being partly theirs. Have they forgotten where they came from? I have never heard of a...
“Sir Damian Chibuzo Okolo possesses the moral and ethical bearings of a monk,” ―Don Okolo Esteemed Bureaucrats, especially the elected ones, are hard to find. If a nation were lucky…as in this case, any State in this haggard nation, she would, every once in a while, haul in the quintessential Statesman, whose pottery was sculpted out of porcelain. In other words, the man or woman, who is on the straight and arrow…the one, who would...
“ In a general term, Northern Nigeria is at the tip of becoming ungovernable,” ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Bandits and terrorists are enemies of the state. They plainly set out to sabotage the most sacred quintessence of the state which is the protection of lives and properties of citizens. It is undisputed, therefore, that banditry and terrorism are two twin evils that are resolute about destroying the fabrics of the modern state as well as altering the...
…look in this place ran Cassius dagger through. See what a rent the envious Casca made. And through this, the well-beloved Brutus stabbed…’ The quote above was Mark Anthony’s. He was lamenting the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar, in the Capitol, by a bunch of Senators. When the desire to kill Caesar was baking in the mind of one Caius Cassius, he took his crazy idea for the political dethroning of Julius Caesar out to...
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has announced that the COVID-19 case fatality rate in Africa is now 2.5 percent, higher than the worldwide level of 2.2 percent. (According to Johns Hopkins University, in the United States the rate is 1.7 percent; in New Zealand, 1.1 percent.) In twenty-one countries on the continent the case fatality rate is 3 percent or higher. Africa CDC announced that there were 207,000 new cases the week of...
In Nigeria, causation of arrests and release are murky, and the rumor mill operates overtime. Some Nigerians are suggesting that Omoyele Sowore was released because the authorities are aware of the stronger human rights emphasis of the Biden administration and wanted to start off on the right foot with the new administration. Sowore is a well-known Nigerian human rights activist and strong critic of the Buhari administration and of Nigeria’s political economy in general. He...
Fire outbreaks in Nnewi have become a yearly occurrence; yet, Innoson Vehicles is manufacturing fire trucks in Nnewi. ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Nnewi is a major industrial and commercial hub in Nigeria, with multimillion-dollar industries and ever-expanding market opportunities and possibilities, as well as potentials for landmark innovations. The Nnewi auto parts market is the biggest in Nigeria and beyond. Nnewi at some point gained a reputation as “Nigeria’s Detroit”, but more popularly known as the “Japan...
In no religion—except in the worship of pride and hypocrisy—is denying the helpless, a virtue. ―Sonala Olumhense Meet Ebele Obiano, a 58-year-old Nigerian woman. If you have ever wondered why nothing works in Nigeria, she is proof. Ebele is the wife of the governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano. By her own account she was recently in the United States, where her daughter became a medical doctor a few years ago. As everyone knows, the US has developed...
