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Gowon! You dey house at all? Gowon! You dey house at all? How market now, with your “One Nigeria 🇳🇬”? How e come bi for Jos, your own state? Gowon, you see, sometimes, long life is not a blessing. But a punishment from God so that some evil men will live long and harvest theirContinue reading “Gowon! You dey house at all?”

They told you Africa and Asia were separate worlds. They told you Africa and Asia were separate worlds. But history tells a different story — one where they were already meeting, trading, and learning from each other centuries before anyone ever spoke of “globalization.” Long before borders hardened and race became a dividing line, theContinue reading “They told you Africa and Asia were separate worlds.”

Title: “A Son Returns from America — What He Sees at the Door Breaks His Heart” Title: “A Son Returns from America — What He Sees at the Door Breaks His Heart” A son returned from America. What he saw at the doorway broke his heart. “Mom, why are you sleeping here by the door?”Continue reading “Title: “A Son Returns from America — What He Sees at the Door Breaks His Heart””

WHY THEY WILL NEVER ALLOW REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA AND THE HISTORY THEY DON’T TELL YOU. WHY THEY WILL NEVER ALLOW REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA AND THE HISTORY THEY DON’T TELL YOU. Let’s be honest with ourselves my fellow Nigerians. Nigeria once practiced regional government — and not just casually… it was the system thatContinue reading “WHY THEY WILL NEVER ALLOW REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA AND THE HISTORY THEY DON’T TELL YOU.”

THE BATTLE OF KHUTIYABASADI (1884): A MONUMENT TO BATAWANA SOVEREIGNTY AND MILITARY GENIUS THE BATTLE OF KHUTIYABASADI (1884): A MONUMENT TO BATAWANA SOVEREIGNTY AND MILITARY GENIUS In the year 1884, upon the sacred lands watered by the Delta, the Batawana faced one of their greatest trials. A ferocious force of over 2,000 AmaNdebele warriors—renowned forContinue reading “THE BATTLE OF KHUTIYABASADI (1884): A MONUMENT TO BATAWANA SOVEREIGNTY AND MILITARY GENIUS”

What You Are Looking At Is Not Primitive. It Is A Civilisation. What You Are Looking At Is Not Primitive. It Is A Civilisation. This photograph was taken in the late nineteenth century. The caption printed beneath it reads — in the measured condescension of the colonial era — “A Veteran of the Bakwena Tribe.Continue reading “What You Are Looking At Is Not Primitive. It Is A Civilisation.”

Today we remember Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, the man who conducted Nigeria’s Today we remember Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, the man who conducted Nigeria’s historic June 12, 1993 election, widely regarded as the freest and fairest election in the country’s history. Sadly, that election was later annulled by the military government of Ibrahim Babangida, denying Nigerians theContinue reading “Today we remember Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, the man who conducted Nigeria’s”

Many Nigerians don’t know this part of our history. Many Nigerians don’t know this part of our history. Nigeria as we know it today was not originally created by the people living here. In 1900, the Royal Niger Company, a private British trading company, handed over its territories and control of the region to theContinue reading “Many Nigerians don’t know this part of our history.”

The hater of Biafra and IPOB said, it is very difficult for him to preach one Nigeria. The hater of Biafra and IPOB said, it is very difficult for him to preach one Nigeria. He wrote: SOMETIMES, IT IS SO HARD TO PREACH ONE NIGERIA I know that many Igbos are open-minded. Many Igbos opposeContinue reading “The hater of Biafra and IPOB said, it is very difficult for him to preach one Nigeria.”

You see the Northern Nigerian Muslims claiming they’re intelligent because to them, America is interfering with our politics, I am here for them. Feel free to tag them to this post. You see the Northern Nigerian Muslims claiming they’re intelligent because to them, America is interfering with our politics, I am here for them. FeelContinue reading “You see the Northern Nigerian Muslims claiming they’re intelligent because to them, America is interfering with our politics, I am here for them. Feel free to tag them to this post.”