An Autopsy of Nigeria’s Fractured Reality in December 2025 – From Statistical Gaslighting to the Lakurawa Caliphate By Agbeze Ireke Kalu Onuma, AI-KO Press enter or click to view image in full size The date today is December 10, 2025. The rare December rain around my Abijo neighbourhood and the harmattan haze is already drifting...

The Vultures Are Circling Again. By Agbeze Ireke Kalu Onuma, AI-KO Press enter or click to view image in full size “Behold, they shall surely gather, but not by me.” – Isaiah 54:15...

COMBING THE DUST SERIES By Agbeze Ireke Kalu Onuma, AI-K THE ELUSIVE LEGACY OF MUHAMMADU BUHARI: AN INTRODUCTION The passing of Muhammadu Buhari on July 13, 2025, in London at age 82, has not simplified the task of defining his legacy. For many Nigerians and observers, Buhari remains an enigma – a figure whose life...

Anambra North senatorial constituency comprises seven Local Government Areas (LGAs). These are: Anambra East, Anambra West, Anyamelum, Ogbaru, Onitsha North, Onitsha South, and Oyi. The contest to represent it in the election to the Senate in 2007 turned out to be memorable for all the wrong reasons. Voting in the election occurred on 28 April...

Two agencies regulating Nigeria’s petroleum industry could not properly account for over N313 billion and their actions resulted in the loss of revenue to the government, according to the latest report by the Auditor General of the Federation. The two petroleum agencies indicted in the report are the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and...

 Written by Niyi  Osundare Too happy for original thinking We beg and buy others to think for us Our universities happily shut down for months Our brains are on permanent sabbatical   We are H-A-P-P-Y We are H-A-P-P-Y We know we are We are sure we are We are H-A-P-P-Y Happppppy!                 I I come from the...

Written by Alabi Williams At a time millions of Nigerians needed hope and assurance that the leadership of the country knows a little of the misery it has imposed, President Bola Tinubu’s media chat last week failed to minister succour.  Apart from the usual “we feel your pains” platitude, there was no evidence that the...

Famous human rights  group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), have again accused personnel of the Nigerian Armed forces, the police, paramilitaries, and Killer Vigilante organizations, of secretly killing of about 32,300 unarmed Civilians in South East Nigeria in the past nine years and four months (August 2015- December 2024). It...

Written by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu   Those who wonder how the country ended up with the utterly shameful charade being orchestrated in a squalid courtroom in Ekiti in the case of Dele Farotimi have Peter Mallong to thank for having written the manual on judicial enablement of the practice of rendering citizens into hostages in...

Written By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu  The crisis that afflicts the current proposals is that of a government unwilling to put in the work required to redress deficits of state and governmental legitimacy around the country. Fiscal governance and reform is not as complex as the administration and its mouthpieces would like to suggest. Taxation is...

Written By Dakuku Peterside In the heart of West Africa, where the echoes of drums narrate ancient tales of resilience, hope, and ambition, one nation rises as a luminous star in the ever-changing tapestry of democracy — Ghana. Its journey, marked by scars of struggle, is a testament to the resilience and determination of its...