jude obuseh

I must have sounded very caustic, cynical, contemptuous and sentimental – as some would have by now concluded – in the blunt manner I randomly carpeted the razzmatazz that accompanied…

I beg the readers of this piece to excuse my rather sarcastic, pessimistic and raucously discordant tone, which is born out of my candid disapproval of the   pomp and pageantry…

The formal recognition of “June 12” as the new date for the celebration (I prefer marking) of “Democracy Day” in Nigeria, and the bestowment of the country’s highest national honour,…

As Nigerians celebrate the 2018 edition of the return of democracy to their country in 1999, following sixteen years of Jackboot dictatorship, this column bluntly examines the visceral facts of…

From a commonsensical standpoint, POWER is the ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way. In international political parlance, power connotes the ability of a nation…

Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari is one of the most maligned leaders Nigeria has ever had. This is not an exaggeration. Neither is it an attempt to wax lyrical about Nigeria’s…

In the early hours of Tuesday the 24th of April, 2018, suspected herdsmen invaded St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Ukpor-Mbalom Parish, Gwer East Local Government Area, Benue State, and cruelly snuffed…

Apart from being widely known as the dictator under whom corruption became state policy in Nigeria, retired General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, erstwhile military “President” of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,…

The submissions in this discourse are bound to stir up a lot of dust, with some sentimentalists choosing to castigate my submissions as either the insipid wisecracks of a godless…

Come 2019, the citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will once again participate in another General Election, and as has become the tradition in these parts, the members of…

The recent abduction of 110 students of Government Girls Technical School, Dapchi, Yobe State, by suspected Boko Haram elements, was a disaster waiting to happen; one that has obviously rubbished…

Man has dominated man to his injury                       – Ecclesiastes 8:9 There are several overt and covert reasons why the Nigerian State has remained backward in virtually all segments of…

The need for an urgent restructuring of the Nigerian federation has never been as expedient as it has become of late. The escalation in the volume of secessionist agitations in…

The plethora of arguments centering on the unjust structuring of the Nigerian federation by the colonial masters, which gave the North an unfair advantage over the South in the distribution…

I have been called an “Igbo apologist”, a “basket mouth” and other derogatory and demeaning names due to my incessant calls for a better deal for the people of the…

There is an age long presumption in Nigeria’s political discourse about the existence of a Hausa-Fulani axis of evil that has supposedly monopolized the country’s politics since the infamous amalgamation…