From Screwdrivers To Superpowers: Why Nigeria Still Fears The People It can’t Erase

 By Tony Iwuoma

The greatest misunderstanding about Ndigbo in Nigeria is not the resentment they face. It is the ignorance surrounding why that resentment exists. And that ignorance is dangerous. People insult what they envy, but systems fear what they cannot control.

Beyond marginalisation, exclusion, and endless arguments about fairness, there is a deeper and more unsettling truth: Ndigbo represent an uncontrollable force in a country engineered around control, patronage, and dependency. That reality makes power deeply uncomfortable.

Conformity is rewarded in Nigeria but independence is punished. A system tolerates groups it can predict but fears those it cannot cage.

Nigerians, Are You Better Off Now Than Two Years Ago?

 By Dan Onwukwe

When President Ahmed Bola Tinubu barreled into office two years ago with the ill-advised “subsidy is gone”, nobody knew it was the beginning of a barrage of policy missteps that have turned into a grievance fest, leaving every aspect of Nigerian life terribly touched.

Predictably, it has been a “shock-and-awe” two years. What has unfolded before our eyes is the abandonment of virtually all campaign promises, and a deliberate intent on using the  office of the presidency to exercise raw political power and transform Nigeria, not on the aspirations of the people, but to transform the country and critical institutions in Tinubu’s own image.