The Girl-Child Marriage Conundrum and the “Place” of Religion in our Democracy!
“If the Berlin Conference of 1885 sealed her fate, then the Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates inextricably complicated Nigeria’s destiny. Animists, Moslems and Christians alike...
View ArticleMusings: Has The Insurgency Defied All Solutions?
The last couple of weeks saw some sort of calm or normalcy returning to the polity albeit, in the security sector. At least one cannot remember when last they saw a news headline bearing such bizarre...
View ArticleThe “Deportation” of Ndigbo and the Fashola, we do not know. By Nkannebe Raymond
I have never been to Lagos literarily but I once found myself accidentally on its lands sometime in 2008. I had wanted travelling from Ibadan to Kano but as providence would have it, I couldn’t get a...
View Article[Opinion] Lack of Unity; the Bane of Igbo Presidency- By Raymond Nkannebe
It is a common logic that when a people of common origin and ancestral history come together under one umbrella, they have almost everything at their disposal to do and undo. With their influence, they...
View Article[Opinion] Of The “Deportation” Of Igbos: To Femi Fani Kayode, Kalu And The...
Those who have lent their ears to the happenstances in the socio-political arena will agree with me that ever since the so called deportation of some persons (of common ancestral history) from one...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Isa Fagge by Nkannebe Raymond.
Sir, many greetings to you. It is my estimation that this piece meets you in good health of mind and body. As I take up my pen to write these letters, it is exactly half past 9pm by my wall clock...
View ArticleASUU STRIKE: A Word For Nigerian Students By Nkannebe Raymond
My fellow Nigerian students! Great Nigerian students whose uncommon patience could pass as the “sacrifice” that has kept this behemoth of a Nation on its rail! Great Maidites, Lions, Buksites, Abusites...
View ArticleAnambra’s Gubernatorial ‘Madness’ By Nkannebe Raymond
When I travelled to my Home state of Anambra some 2 months ago, I was startled at the level of preparation and permutation for the forthcoming Nov. 16 gubernatorial elections. As we alighted from the...
View ArticleTo These Ones Gone Before Us-Tribute To Shizzy, Halima And D2 By Nkannebe...
‘A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies’- Gustave Flaubert As the previous day gave birth to a new break of dawn, every other thing Fell in place; it was September 29th, 2012, the day the...
View ArticleIndependence Anniversary: Chronicles of a Tottering Nation at 53! By Nkannebe...
I was yet to be born. In fact the woman that would later bore me was still a baby of just about two years and still held under the clutches of the Freudian psychoanalytic theory when our first...
View ArticleNdigbo “Deportation” and Babatunde Fashola’s “Mea Culpa” By Nkannebe Raymond
“Courageous leaders don’t make excuses; they apologize”- Mahatma Gandhi I am yet to find the appropriate word from my vocabulary bank to describe Governor Babatunde Raji Fashol’s recent tender of...
View ArticleThe Boko Haram Imbroglio: The Role of the Muslim Ummah By Raymond Nkannebe
I have never had moments of doubts in my mind whenever I make the assertion that the very word Faith, or if you like- Religion, has caused humanity the greatest problem it is today forced to condone...
View ArticleStrike: ASUU, The Time To “Call-Off” Is Now By Nkannebe Raymond
I have no problem with Unionism. Perhaps I should say that any right thinking person should and ought not to be exasperated by an active and fair unionism. If anything, it demands our collective...
View Article[Opinion] Bringing The Ongoing ASUU Strike To An End; The Indispensable Role...
It is now so glaring that the lingering ASUU strike has refused for reasons one cannot comprehend, to abate. The more we cast our hopes to a lasting solution in the shortest time, the more the problem...
View Article[Opinion] Chris Ngige: A “Good Man” in a “Wrong” Party by Nkannebe Raymond
In my earlier article on this same subject of the forthcoming Anambra gubernatorial poll titled, “Anambra Gubernatorial Madness”, I had lucidly brought before the eyes of readers of this column, the...
View ArticleAnambra Guber and INEC’s Unpardonable Consistent Inconsistency by Nkannebe...
I would be indisposed to engage in any argument whatsoever with anyone who contends that Karma may have gotten the best of us in our electoral strides since after General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida...
View Article8 Things we learnt from Anambra Botched polls by Nkannebe Raymond
The long anticipated Anambra state gubernatorial election has come and gone at least as far as this writer is concerned. I refuse to be among those inundated by the “Independent” National Electoral...
View ArticlePostponed Edo Polls; Vintage Voice of Jacob and the Hand of Esau by Nkannebe...
Fellow Nigerians, it appears not too many of us seem to appreciate the degree of political fraud that was pulled off last week by the (mis)ruling party in Edo state− hence, the seeming cold acceptance...
View ArticleNational Restructuring and the Ambivalence of a Nation by Raymond Nkannebe
You will agree with us that since the early 80s, nothing has formed the subject of our national debates and engagements more than the chequered (mis) fortune of the word ‘Restructuring’. It has been...
View ArticleJames Faleke’s Tortuous Dance with Providence by Raymond Nkannebe
Whatever your political persuasion or misgivings about him, truth is: Mr. James Faleke deserves our pity. But he also deserves our praise. Pity, because of the chain of circumstances that brought him...
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