By Basil Okoh Hakeem Baba Ahmed, spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) spoke a few days ago, threatening to expel the Igbo and Southern Nigeria from the Nigerian nation. Promptly, Garba Shehu, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari replied, warning Baba-Ahmed off of speaking for the North or the Government of Nigeria. Garba Shehu said: […] Read more

By Farooq Kperogi Deborah: I’ve Lost Faith in Humanity That such a large number of highly credentialed, full-grown northern Nigerian Muslim adults in full control of their mental faculties (who repeat the mantra that “Islam is a religion of peace,” no less) would countenance, defend, justify, and even revel in the insensate slaughter of Deborah […] Read more

By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 16 May, 2022) A Sokoto mob on Saturday violently protested against justice for Deborah Yakubu who was murdered by her schoolmates in broad daylight. They wanted her suspected killers released without trial. The mob thought the state did not owe the murdered that duty of […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye “Never again”!  That phrase was made popular by survivors of the Holocaust in which six million European Jews were systematically murdered in pogroms, mass shootings and gas chambers during World War II by Hitler’s forces. The phrase is thought to have been borrowed from a 1927 poem by Yitzhak Lamdan, “Never again […] Read more

By Ayo Dada The gruesome murder of Deborah Yakubu In 1995, a group of 9 Wahabist fundamentalists in Kano killed & beheaded a young Igbo Trader, Gideon Akaluka. Remember Bridget Agbahime? She was beheaded in kofar wambai market in Kano and her head hoisted on a stick and taken on a victory parade afterwards. Her […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is not a bad man. He may have appeared to be overwhelmed by daunting circumstances confronting his administration — especially by the pro-democracy groups queuing up behind the expected messiah of the time, General Muhammadu Buhari — but generally he had as good a heart as anyone who has […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG Nigeria since 1966 was no longer one, not even on paper talk less of in reality. Let us restructure the country or peacefully go our many separate ways – Dosumu. The Arole Oduduwa, Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja ll, the Ooni of Ife inaugurated 22- man committee to investigate the Yoruba freedom fighter Sunday […] Read more

By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 2 May, 2022) So, who is the favourite? First, they said Goodluck Jonathan was the chosen one. Indeed, his boys and girls were already sharing the 2023-2027 posts and spoils. Now, I ask, is he still the one that is coming? No one appears sure again […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG DUMB TALK? STUPID TALK? READ THE ADDENDUM Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister has suggested who may likely win the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential primary. Fani-Kayode suggested that ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar may pick the PDP Presidential ticket. To this end, he urged the All Progressives Congress, APC, to field a Northern […] Read more

By Chris O. O. Biose The Corruption Perception Index Report for 2021 compiled by the global anti-corruption body, Transparency International ranks Nigeria as 154 out of 180 countries. It is also the second most notorious country in the world for romance or dating scams, according to Techshielder.com, a London-based organization that studies, analyses and offers advice […] Read more