Fake Spirituality: The Ozoro rape festival, by Ugoji Egbujo, Despite every attempt to feign surprise and douse the outrage, this festival and its violence against women did not erupt overnight. If a fertility tradition had long gone cancerous, why wait for it to consume the community? The pictures told the story. Hordes of boys marched through the […]

A Message to the Opposition: Get Red- Eyed or Get Out, by Ugoji Egbujo, The attack on Peter Obi and other opposition leaders was entirely foreseeable. The opposition must grasp its current predicament and unite to resist. So far, it has remained too aloof , too feeble. It has to take the bull by the horns or thrown […]

The City Boy Of Abegistan, by Ugoji Egbujo, A coalition of big-time hustlers has christened itself a movement. Their motivation is thinly veiled. They will  channel their aggression toward the re-election of President Bola Tinubu. To dress up the enterprise, they chose a catchy name. Tinubu became “City Boy.” Pa Tinubu will surely welcome any residual boyishness […]

Tinubu and Talon: Traitorous Tailors of Democracy? By Ugoji Egbujo, Before soldiers seized Cotonou’s state television station to declare Patrice Talon deposed, Benin’s democracy had already become a sham.  Talon entered office in 2016 bearing the hopes of the country’s poor. Benin’s democracy, then 25 years old, was stable but stagnant, yielding little prosperity. Talon pledged to […]

Lagos:  River Lekki, demolitions and the cost of shortsightedness, by Ugoji Egbujo, Lagos is a bustling coastal city, so its vulnerability to floods is natural. But with a culture of indiscriminate refuse disposal, haphazard building developments, and lousy town planning enforcement, Lagos is the cause of much of its own flooding woes. Often, governments come like […]

Standards are dead: Nigeria and the Fakery Epidemic, by Ugoji Egbujo, Good building materials are gone.  Everything is now fake—almost everything. The chronic decline took an acute turn after the COVID epidemic.  A  post-COVID nosedive. The naira started to plummet, prices soared. Surging costs of basic food began to drown the poor. People could no longer […]

Fubara’s Spirit: Fearful, fumbling and forgetful, by Ugoji Egbujo, This time last year, Governor Fubara said Rivers State had been liberated. People trooped to churches to thank God for setting them free. According to Fubara, the state, its people and resources, had been in the clutches of a rapacious and gluttonous politician. That fellow decided […]