Author: Onyeisi Chiemeke

Is it a crisis of effort or the constant muddle that most social protests in Nigeria seem to find themselves that made it difficult to define what exactly happened to the protest tagged Day of Rage on the 5th of August 2019 by the Coalition For Revolution (CORE)? This question is important for the reason of the fact that as usual, once one of the leaders of the group in the coalition Omoyele Sowore was arrested, the whole effort did tailspin into a mist of interpretation of what a revolution ought to be, and what it ought not to be. A further problematic was even to define whether it was even a revolution or a protest as guaranteed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and other Human Rights documents. The fact that this protest was even made to derive its validity from t...

I think the vice presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi is emblematic of who we are as a people. this was made more manifest at the last week vice presidential debate with respect to the 2019 presidential election. He reeled out so many figures, which ordinarily for students of mathematics will show his strong sense at logic, which should be a plus for him. But there is a disconnect in his ingenuity at that debate and that was key to understanding candidate Obi and project Nigeria which he was eloquent and got ovations for. Peter Obi in projecting his economics laid its foundation on the logic of the Washington Conesus School to the effect that; government has no business being in business. Why his APC’s counterpart did not catch him out when he waxed eloqu...

Muhammadu Buhari Let us be direct about this, will President Muhammadu Buhari win the 2019 Presidential Election or will Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Nigerian Establishment triumph over him? There are factors you can examine and come to the conclusion that he will not win. We can look at these factors by looking at three groups that will work and are working to ensure that he does not win. In our opinion the three groups are the college of the retired generals led by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, T. Y. Danjuma and Ibrahim Babangida; most sections of the Nigerian media, and many of the Pentecostals that are beholden to Goodluck Jonathan, led by Bishop David Oyedepo. Each of these groups has their grouses, sometimes correct and sometimes over magnified. And we shall examine them one a...

In Nigeria, we all indulge ourselves eating the popular Calabar vegetable soup called Edikai-kan. And as we do notice most times, if it is prepared in the true spirit of the real Edikai-kan it must have as ingredients; the periwinkle. The periwinkle we all know belongs to the mollusc family. What is peculiar to every periwinkle is the fact that they are all big-headed. They all like to wear crowns, and it is in the quest of all periwinkles to wear a crown that lies the problem of the periwinkle. To understand how the quest for glory by the periwinkles apply to the Nigerian opposition, particularly the ones we would regard as the third tier opposition, because for now the frontrunners for the 2019 general election in Nigeria are the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the People’s Democrati...

There is an African saying that; “a child who constantly showers praises on his/her mother, will end up dishonoring his/her father”. Whether out of sheer mischief or descent, into the new world of intellectual decay, most Nigerian elites particularly on the social media lap up as decent meals any vulgar comments from western leaders. It is such disgusting that when Donald Trump referred to Africa as ‘shithole’, our social media elites and their counterparts in the mainstream media, found work in the devil’s anvil and provided the theoretical justifications for such a debasing comment. The latest is the comment by Donald Trump that referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as ‘lifeless’ and the Nigerian media again had a field day regurgitating the story credited to the Financial Times of...

When Fanon developed his theory of the politics of spontaneity, it does appear that he had Nigeria in mind. This is because constantly all politics in Nigeria seems to be built on possibility of fatalistic resolution of its political cum economic difficulties. Nothing follows an articulated process of methodical thinking. Such that if Lucifer is to offer himself as the chief opposition, many Nigerians are not going to shy away to journey with him in the new world, acting as choristers in such enterprise. What is at the root cause of such desperate opposition? We will come back to look at it but let us look at the events of recent times in order to validate the point we are making. Four examples will suffice here.  First, was the Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter to President Muha...

The International Women’s day was celebrated on the 8th day of March 2018 with the theme; PressForProgress. The United Nations’ findings indicate that the gender gap if concerted efforts are not taken would take about 200 years to close. But even with this gloomy statistics, like everything typical of the new world order, the whole ceremony became the celebration of all women without minding the fact that some women have participated expressly and impliedly in the death of more women and children in the world in the past 30 years. For example in the United Nations today sits at the Security Council an implacable war war-monger called Nikki Haley. Though, she follows in a historical trajectory of American women like Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and...