While the doctors at the Jeddah Hospital in Saudi Arabia were working night and day to bring president Umaru Yar’Adua back to life, the Nigerian politicians saw that as an opportunity to grab whatever they could. As a Nigerian, this didn’t come as a surprise. We all know what our greedy leaders are capable of. [...]
The arrest and release of the so-called Civil Society activist, Mallam Shehu Sani yesterday shouldn’t surprise anyone. Like many northern leaders, Sani is like a bird building a fragile nest on a fruitless tree. Sani was arrested for leading a group of hoodlums to protest against the British and American role in the invasion of [...]
In my last post titled “The New US Security Measures for Nigerians“, I wrote about the negative consequences many Nigerians will have to face because of Abdumutallab’s plot to bomb a US airplane on December 25th 2009. Even though these measures are necessary to help prevent any similar plot, they don’t do enough to help [...]
“Residents said as many as eight people were believed to have been killed, including two soldiers, in fighting between members of an Islamic sect armed with machetes and the security forces in a low-cost housing area on the outskirts of the city”. While some of us are still grappling with the December 25th incident that [...]
