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I bring greetings to the Nigerian workers and their leaders on this special day. It is Happy Workers’ Day from me. 1st May is an annual public holiday for workers. It is historical date. I do sincerely hope that the essence of this date will not be lost on us.

Today again reminds us more of the need to organize and build the capacities of Nigerian workers to impact meaningfully on our national…

I was amongst the earliest patriots to call for the closure of our air space and land borders to avert the present situation and its associated panic. I anchored my position on three grounds: that we do not have the capacity to cope with a grand scale of coronavirus infection, that our country is still enmeshed in deep corruption which will affect the required public health service delivery and…

As a patriot, I did call for timely and proactive measures in our desire to keep coronavirus off our shore or, at least, fora long time as research for vaccine and its cure are speedily going on. I was attacked by persons like Allwell Ndubuaku who queried my suggestions. Now that the incidence of coronavirus is increasing in the country, they have gone into hiding. They are no longer commenting.…

The coronavarius pandemic is exposing the failure of many leaders. I came across a poster on the pandemic that caused a deep reflection in me. Across a globe, there is this inscription: ‘Closed for Repairs.’ We should all start to reflect on the lessons learnt from the pandemic as it concerns governance of countries. Someone posted in the social media that his country’s president would not…

The success story of Vietnam so far in treating the 16 persons who contacted coronavirus in the country is interesting. I am worried to ask: Can Nigeria try a similar thing? I sincerely believe that we have good experts in the country, the challenges however are politics and corruption. We must eschew politics and rally ourselves together as one great country and prevent Covid-19 from rampaging…

UNTOLD STORIES OF THE STRUGGLE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISOPADEC IN IMO STATE

First, I want to declare that I am not interested in the position of the MD of ISOPADEC, so that anyone reading this will appreciate my unbiased opinion.

At the moment, as the Executive Director of the Ugwumba Center for Leadership Development in Africa, I am very busy positioning the organization to become a…

Thanks for your patience in 2019. I apologize for not being able to keep the momentum. It was a matter of ‘duty calls.’ I am assuring that I return the tempo. I have fixed the situation, by GOD’s grace and mercy.

The seeds of today bring forth the fruits of tomorrow. So also will the present style of governance in a country bring peace or conflict to the people in future. Ethno-religious driven governance style is akin to a landmine.

We should note that every landmine, if not carefully and expertly detonated to preserve lives and properties, will surely explode someday. It may take some time.

The crisis…

What is African Union saying and doing to South Africa? It is time to stoutly oppose and halt the reckless and xenophobic killings of other Africans and destructions of their property by South Africans.Time is running out. Other nations, especially Nigeria, are getting visibly irritated. Africa needs peace.

I hereby call on the South African government to the hate actions of South Africans now.…

I confess here that I am one of those Nigerians who are opposed to the proscription of IMN, though I am a Christian.

I dare say that I take the proscription of IMN as a clear violation of the fundamental right of the members to believe and worship. The right to belief and worship is inalienable. So, the IMN members as Nigerians have the fundamental right to worship like others and this should be…

2019 PRESIDENTIAL AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND NIGERIA

Upon a sincere review of the conduct of the 2019 presidential and national assembly elections, one will obviously admit that the said elections were marred by organised criminality on the part of certain political parties and their leaders.

A close monitoring of the conduct of the said elections will clearly show that three new additions or dimensions to electoral corruption have entered the…

I WILL SOON BE BACK

I apologize for my absence. I will soon be back. I had wanted to come back with writings on the presidential and national assembly elections voting experience of Nigerians. It turned out that the said elections were postponed by the electoral umpire based on logistics and operational challenges.

UCHE WISDOM DURUEKE AND JONES ABIRI’S CASE

‘I thank you very specially, the President of the Civil Liberties Organization ( CLO), Barr. Uche Wisdom Durueke, for your good intentions and action when l brought Chief Jones Abiri’s matter to your notice.

When you heard of the judgment at the Court in Yenagoa; you promptly demanded to have the judgment with a view to filing an Appeal in pursuit of Chief Jones Abiri’s fundamental human Rights.…

The killing of about 73 natives of Benue State by rampaging armed herdsmen left the State in werping and pains. Benue State became a river of blood and tears.  The killings by herdsmen has become so worrisome as there are not yet any concrete and measurable strategy by the federal government to halt their menance. The cattle colony being proposed by the Federal Government is like saying kudos to…

​The goal or essence of human rights is to make our societies fair and better. This should be our struggle. The struggle should not be a choice, it should be an imperative: a duty we owe to humanity. 

​LET ME NOT BE SILENT AMIDST INJUSTICE Sincerely, we are not building a nation. Nations are not built by speeches, but by deeds. When you listen to our leaders, you will think that they genuinely believe in peace and unity of this country as a people. Sad to state that if you evaluate their conducts and actions, you may start crying. How many can walk their talks on unity based on equity and…