(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 5 July, 2021) It was in Hubert Ogunde’s ‘Jayesinmi’ that we last saw witches transforming into cats – black cat, red cat. I never knew witchery and witchcraft have found their way into the curricula of our security academies until the recent Igboho night experience. Media reports said…
Wike Insists on Fair Trial for Nnamdi Kanu
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has insisted that the trial of the recaptured leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu should follow due process in accordance with the rule of law.The governor who spoke on Arise TV interview programme on Thursday, said efforts must be made by the Federal Government to…
Rivers is not Part of Biafra Agitation, Wike tells Ag IGP
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has told the acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, that the people of Rivers State were not part of the agitation for a secessionist Biafra. The governor, who stated this on Wednesday when he played host to the acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Usman Baba, at Government House,…
Wike Places N50m Ransom on #Endsars Protest Leader, Clamps Down on IPOB
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, on Friday night ordered the full enforcement of the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in Rivers State. In a broadcast to the people of the state, the governor said the state government could no longer tolerate the destructive activities of the organization after three days…
Apartheid, Fraudulent Victory And A Sham Panel
There is apartheid in Nigeria. It is the policy of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. In South Africa, apartheid was institutionalised racism developed by the roguish political elements of the white minority to seize all the country’s resources for themselves and keep the black African majority in perpetual servitude and penury. The abhorrent racist policy…
How the Nigeria Police Saved Anambra from Post-Election Mayhem
But for the refusal of top police officers dispatched to Anambra State to supervise security during the just-concluded governorship election, the incumbent governor would have been robbed of victory Ahead of the November 18, 2017 governorship election in Anambra State won by a wide margin by the incumbent governor, Willie Obiano of the All Progressives…
Why The North Is Afraid
The division over the renewed clamour for restructuring of the Nigerian political system, to address the widespread disaffection in the country, raises suspicion of the plot by a section of the country to retain what others consider an unfair deal, at the expense of other blocs The agitation has been on for a long time…
