The Flipside – Eric Osagie
Jonathan goes to war!
Warsaw never saw war until war came to Warsaw. Nigeria is not Warsaw, a city in Poland, which provoked the above alliterative rhyme in Winston Churchill’s fecund mind. But we are seeing war all the same. Borno, Yobe and Adamawa ... Read More »
A senator’s wolf cry
Until he addressed a press conference alleging that the governor of his state wanted him dead on account of political schism, not much was known about him. Perhaps his constituency knew him; may be his colleagues in the National Assembly ... Read More »
A Comrade and his killers
The telephone is harbinger of good and bad news. When a phone call jerked me up in the early hours of May 5, 2012, it wasn’t good news it brought. It was sad, tragic news. News that hit me hard ... Read More »
The shame of Baga
Not many Nigerians, even in the Northern part of the country, could claim to have heard of, or visited Baga, a rural, dusty, trading, bustling community north of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. But not anymore. From obscurity, the ... Read More »
A time to talk
At the security summit organised by The Sun Publishing Limited last year in Abuja, one of those who made presentations was a Professor of International law in one of our foremost universities. In the course of his discourse at the ... Read More »
How did we get there?
A group of young men, having inherited their parents’ wealth, went on a spending spree. They quaffed the most expensive liquor, rode exotic cars, wore designer clothes and rocked the prettiest girls. Then, like in the case of the Biblical ... Read More »
Writer as conscientious objector
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country,” says John Fritzgerald Kennedy. That iconic statement by the slain American president has indeed become the global call to patriotism. I also ... Read More »
Re: Nigeria’s oil mafia
I read your piece with the above title published March 11, 2013, and wish to make my contributions as follows: One of the problems of man is his inability to learn from history. We read histories of how monarchies in ... Read More »
There was a writer
The king is dead. The king lives. King of the written word. King of prose. King of the novel. The master storyteller. When the greatest African novelist of this century falls into the eternal sleep, there are comets seen everywhere; ... Read More »
Pardon, then outrage
We know him. Yet, we don’t. We hear him. He tells us to pray for him. That the burden on his shoulders is enormous. He’s right. No easy task governing Africa’s most populous and most troublesome nation. And we have ... Read More »
