Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
By Sunny Igboanugo, Email: odengus1@yahoo.com SMS: 08054103450 Political Whirlwind will embark on a journey from today; a long journey from which it may never return, but which it hopes to someday. It has to, because nothing is static in life. Sometimes, new doors open which one...
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Honestly, I didn’t think I was going to return to the matter of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), for a long time to come, having dealt with the issue last week. But since our elders say that an animal that runs badly must be shot...
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Last week’s visit of officials of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), led by Interim National Chairman, Chief Maxi Okwu, to its founder, Chief Chekwas Okorie, has underscored the fact that Nigerians are not as passive, ignorant or naive as many think. The deluge of...
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
By Sunny Igboanugo, Email: odengus1@yahoo.com SMS: 08054103450 Lions make leopards tame, William Shakespeare wrote in one of his classics, King Richard (11), but cannot change its spots. He went on: “The purest treasure mortal times afford is a spotless reputation. That away, men are but gilded...
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
By Sunny Igboanug No man lives forever. No, not you, Eagle on the Iroko. You would see it as a taboo. It is indeed a taboo. Mortal man must join his ancestors at one point. You have done just that. Indeed, you would have scoffed...
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
By Sunny Igboanugo, 08054103450, odengus1@yahoo.com I have always been convinced that Malam Nuhu Ribadu is the worst thing that has happened to Nigerian politics since 1999. Because there is a groundswell of opinion in the country that the former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss...
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
By Sunday Igboanugo Of all the factors that have caused the dislocation in Nigeria today and led to its current sorry pass, gullibility of the people remains, in my estimation, the most culpable. Even the most tenuous and obtuse postulations survive and endure in Nigeria...
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
By Sunny Igboanugo, 08054103450, odengus1@yahoo.com There was this very influential man that used to hold sway in the Nigerian polity, some years back. This man, from the South East was very powerful, especially in the days of the military, that it was believed that few people...
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
It took the archetypal courage of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to give a clear picture of the ongoing National Good Governance Tour (NGGT) by Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku. Last week, the Edo State Governor, had, recounted how the minister wrote him demanding some essentials...
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
By Sunny Igboanugo, odengus1@yahoo.com Is it not intriguing how yesterday often rushes back to us today, much in the exact way? Of course, it could be a different scenario, with different dramatis personae. But the plot is usually basically the same. And so, today, we have,...
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
By Sunny Igboanugo, 08054103450, odengus1@yahoo.com Here, last week, I tried to paint a picture of a Nigeria that has lost its soul. Of course, there was nothing new about that, because that tragedy is quite obvious. But I feel, in realising this fact, we may start...
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
By Sunny Igboanugo, 08054103450 Nigerians like noise. They enjoy high drama. They crave for raving stories. They seek out delirious headlines. But in the end, they go home, clasp the comfort of their beds, mute as they hit their pillows, dreaming dreams. It is a...
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
By Sunny Igboanugo, 08054103450 Last week Wednesday, the picture of Enugu State Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime, appeared on the front pages of most Nigerian newspapers. It was the picture of the governor with some of his colleagues, including Chairman of the Nigerian Governor’s Forum (NGF),...
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
By Sunny Igboanugo, 08054103450 There is a thin tread between heroism and terrorism. Nowhere has this been shown than in leadership – any kind of leadership. The case of Idi Amin Dada of Uganda in the classic, The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin adumbrates...
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
By Sunny Igboanugo, 08054103450 What is the difference between “tie the rope around the goat’s neck” and “tie the goat’s neck around the rope?” This popular saying in my neck of the wood, appears quite apt in the story currently going around my kinsman, Chukwuma...
