The Flipside - Eric Osagie
Democracy, whose democracy?
The first time I asked this question was May 28, 2012. Six years after, May 28, 2018, has not witnessed...
Letter to Leah
Pain in my heart, tears in my eyes, I write you this letter, dear Leah, the young, brave, brilliant girl...
Herdsmen and the rest of us
In the beginning, God created man. He also made the animals, and all the living and non- living creatures. But...
Gani @ 80: A personal testimony
He would have been 80 yesterday. But, he’s not alive to read the wonderful tributes and encomiums poured on him...
If Zuma were a Nigerian…
The news of the fall of Comrade Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, ex-President of the Republic of South Africa, is no longer...
Trump: One year of madness
It is 12 months since he rumbled into the White House, seat of the American government. And in 12 months,...
For Benue, we weep
Nightfall comes like a dreaded disease seeping through the pores of a healthy body and ravaging it beyond repair A murderer’s hand, lurking in the shadows, clasping...
Musings at Christmas
Peeping out of my window on Christmas Eve, the nation’s capital city of Abuja comes across as a deserted village,...
Ojukwu: Six years after
The man died. The old soldier died. But the great man, the man of ideas and intellect, the man of...
Fire in his bones
At a time when Maina mania has gripped the media, and the whole nation marvels at ‘government magic’ which magically...
