Tragic: A Nation Without Heroes Or In Need Of Heroes

 By Owei Lakemfa

Nigeria is like an orphan. A country without heroes.  The political leadership over the    decades have been held in suspicion by a frustrated citizenry whose situation simply gets worse.    The country    does not seem to have heroes that    generations can look up to or, can inspire.    

*Tinubu

The famous German writer,   Bertolt Brecht declared in his  play Life of Galileo: “Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that, having heroes, fails to recognize and honour them”. This was what the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the    family of Michael Imoudu, the most famous labour leader in our history,    on Saturday, December 20, 2025    stepped in to correct. They not just revealed that Nigeria has contemporary heroes, but that we have men and women whose life and sacrifices seem fictional.    This was at the maiden  Michael Imoudu Awards, MIA    held in Lagos to commemorate the twentieth passing away of Imoudu, one of the most iconic figures in Nigeria history.

Bola Tinubu And Sani Abacha’s Ghost

 By Ugoji Egbujo

Recently, many have seen the ghost of Sani Abacha. And they have cried aloud.

After the annulment of the June 12 elections, chaos ensued. Gen Babangida stepped aside. As Shonekan’s Interim Government (ING) wobbled under the June 12 pressure, Abacha dispatched emissaries to Abiola who had dashed into exile.  Abacha promised to restore hope. Nobody should have believed him, but being credulous from hopelessness, they said he was a man of his word. They hoped Abacha would renew Hope.  Hope 93 was Abiola’s slogan.