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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 ...

  By Obi Nwakanma In the last three weeks, I have suffered from a very devastating writer’s block. I could not move my mind. It felt stiff...

  By Obi Nwakanma I still do remember growing up, my father waking, and shaving with the BBC. Against a background of the bleep-bleep-blee...

  By Obi Nwakanma I watched with extreme difficulty, and not insubstantial pain, the interview in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in which the...

  By Obi Nwakanma The five governors of the South East of Nigeria met in Enugu last week to deliberate on the security situation of the re...

  By Obi Nwakanma The Federal Republic of Nigeria is now, to all intents and purpose, like a patient etherized on life support in hospice ...

  By Obi Nwakanma “If you do not know where to put your hand, rest it on the knee” – Igbo proverb. The inauguration of the President of ...

  By Obi Nwakanma “No one tells the deaf that there is a stampede in the market” – Igbo prover b On May 29, a handover ceremony should ta...