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  By Obi Nwakanma It is no longer news that the current APC administration – the ‘Emilokan’ presidency of Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu – has no an...

  By Obi Nwakanma David Umahi, Minister of Works under this administration, is not a very likeable man.   He is crude, and not really very p...

    By Obi Nwakanma In the 1950s and 60s, the national canard was “Igbo domination.” The Igbo were everywhere in the establishment. They wer...

  By Obi Nwakanma As at this morning, dear reader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) remains a political pr...

  By Obi Nwakanma A friend of mine sent me the link of the clip of my old buddy, Dr Reuben Abati, declaring that the civil war in Nigeria ha...

  By Obi Nwakanma Let me begin here by saying that Mr. Femi Adesina is a very dishonest interlocutor of Nigerian history. I really do wish t...

  By Obi Nwakanma I have made this point at various points in this column, that for a nation to claim “independence,” or legitimacy, it mu...

By Obi Nwakanma Culturally, the East of Nigeria has two things going for it: one is a contiguous and compact geography that is very cultur...

  By Obi Nwakanma By every index, Nigeria as a nation, has very nearly, finally collapsed. It is held together now only by a very weak thr...

  By Obi Nwakanma Twenty years ago, the alumni of the Government College Umuahia first met in the United States, and decided to take on th...

  By Obi Nwakanma A few weeks ago, newspapers in Nigeria reported that the National Council of State met, and the current president, Mr. B...

  By Obi Nwakanma The fact that I have to write this, makes me retch. It turns my stomach because this is the 21st century, and there are ...

  By Obi Nwakanma Chinua Achebe, the leading African writer of the 20th century, did write in his The Trouble with Nigeria , that Nigeria ...

  By Obi Nwakanma Nigeria is in dire straits. That is no longer news. It is not even news anymore that Nigerians are going through the wor...

  By Obi Nwakanma Two weeks ago, armed attackers stormed Aba, and at the Obikabia military checkpoint on the outskirts of the city, shot and...

  By Obi Nwakanma There was a tradition recorded by the Roman historians, Suetonius and Tacitus, of the Naumachia, the spectacular, very l...

  By Dele Sobowale “The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arms are always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedo...

  By Obi Nwakanma A terrible time has fallen on Nigeria. There is no hiding it. Hunger is not just rampant; it is now an epidemic. There i...

  By Obi Nwakanma Last year my son made plans to buy a ticket and fly down on his own to Nigeria, and spend the summer with his uncle in A...

  By Obi Nwakanma Today, let us celebrate worthy men. This past Thursday, November 16, was the birthday of a giant of history; a man whom ...