Manifesto for a New Nigeria

Follow @NewNigerian This picture puts a perspective on Nigeria that many books may fail to equal.  It describes the current state, while also revealing a previous reality that has been superimposed upon by a new anti-reality.  Let’s start with the white-ish house; rain washed and suffering from an invasion of moss.  In a previous life,…

“Crackdown” On Judicial Officers – Separating The Law From Sentiments By Inibehe Effiong The State Security Service (SSS) embarked on an unprecedented “crackdown” on allegedly corrupt judicial officers across the country over the weekend. Among the judicial officers whose houses were searched and thereafter arrested and detained are two Justices of the Supreme Court of…

After the storm there must be a calm Time has passed since the Obasanjo government launched out on its escapade of the third-term, a slippery route that has seen the likes of Yoweri Museveni and Robert Mugabe spending an eternity as sentinels on the road to the progress of their people.  The dust has since…

On occasions like this, I sorely miss my departed and dear brother, attorney Kunle Fadipe; he would have treated me to something close or equal to a forensic analysis of the circumstances: either that or some well argued but laughable cynicism of the system. He would have walked me from the roots, point me along…