Memo to our governors on leadership

 By Casmir Igbokwe
 Published: Sunday, 28 Sep 2008

HURRAY! Nigeria will be 48 years as an independent nation on Wednesday, October 1. This should have been a moment for wild celebrations. But the reverse is the case because since our independence from Britain in 1960, many Nigerians have had a lot of sad stories to tell. Many [...]

Hackers and Yar’Adua’s rumoured resignation

By Casmir Igbokwe
 Published: Sunday, 21 Sep 2008

PENULTIMATE Saturday, I got a frightening text message on my mobile phone. It read, “Now dat (that) Tinubu has filled the LGs with his boys, we can expose him too. That is why U (you) are receiving this text from your own No. We apologise to Osun Tribunal.” The [...]

Death sentence on Nigerians

Casmir Igbokwe
 
Joe (surname withheld) lost his sister-in-law last week. The young woman, who reportedly died of high blood pressure, left five children behind. The widower, who has no visible means of livelihood, has another wife who has six children– five boys and one girl. He had married that one to give him a boy because [...]

Mr. President, where are you?

 By Casmir Igbokwe
 Published: Monday, 8 Sep 2008

President Umaru Yar‘Adua has something in common with Bello Abubakar, the man with 86 wives. In the past two weeks or so, both of them have been subjects of discussion in Nigeria. But while Abubakar‘s predicament paints a picture of strangeness and hypocrisy, the issues surrounding Yar‘Adua‘s health throw [...]

Niger Delta: Between militancy and criminality

 By Casmir Igbokwe
 Published: Sunday, 31 Aug 2008

I presume we are now familiar with what happened last Tuesday night in Port Harcourt. The Rivers State governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had played host to the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Moshe Ram. At the dinner, Ram reportedly said the Nigerian media had blown the crisis in the [...]