"Dear Mr President, I am one of your unapologetic admirers, I went all ways to advocate for your emergence . I lost friendships and resources promoting your candidature. In fact, I named my son after you; I call him Muhammadu Buhari - all these I did because I wholeheartedly believe in you. Everyday I pray for your success, I pray for your good health - I spend energy defending your actions even in the face of obvious indefensible template. I am dangerously linked to your person and ideology that I can take bullet for you. However, recently manifestations from your desk has left me somewhat helpless and deflated. You are demystifying the phenomenal brand called Muhammadu Buhari. Laxity and overt complacency is taking over your fascinating antecedents. You are withering away your goodwill so fast. Your too democratic stance is not helping the wheel of governance. You are leaving too a wide room for indolence. Your lieutenants are abusing responsibilities while you watch ...

Yakub Aliyu The Igbo political elite are now sharply divided between the silent majority federalist, and the vocal separatists minority represented by IPOB, MASSOB and others. Both have no defined leadership, except that Nnamdi Kanu has now assumed the role of an arrowhead for the separatists. The federalists have so far been intimidated to their marrow and it is not in their interest that they remain so. In addition, the separatists have not defined clearly what they wanted, and they appeared uninterested in first exhausting the constitutional democratic route. Take the case of Prof. Nwabueze's statement that if the government agreed to the restructuring agenda, the IPOB will rescind it's separatists agitation. This is pure blackmail. It's like the old man has an agenda within IPOB agenda. Also, there are some of the political elite and intellectuals who are closet separatists but lack the guts to face Nigeria and declare their stand. Hence, the IPOB movement is be...

Don't be deceived. IPOB and Kanu, like Ojukwu before them are engaged in the most hideous of propaganda to cause national mayhem and anarchy. The pictures and videos circulating online, of the inhuman treatment against their members by the soldiers, and the ones showing attacks on the Hausa-Fulani community in the Southeast are all shared by the IPOB members with the sole aim of escalating tensions and triggering violent reprisals, from both sides. In fact, some of the pictures and videos they are circulating are the ones from the Ife clashes and others of about two years ago involving cultists clashes in Southeast and the NigerDelta. The Northerners should be reminded that in the North today, there are millions of full blown third generation Igbo who have no idea how the Southeast looks like, or what this Kanu's madness is all about. Their grand parents and their parents have investments across all sectors of the Northern economy, have property all over the place; they h...

OUR STAND ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN NIGERIA September 13, 2017 INTRODUCTION Recall that in June this year,  we led some Northern Youth Groups and other Northern umbrella organizations to form a Coalition of Northern Groups and  took the bold and necessary step to address a petition to the office of the then Acting President of Nigeria on the unfolding developments in the country. A similar communication was also addressed to the United Nations Secretary General and major foreign diplomatic missions represented in Nigeria, in which we drew attention to the emerging trends in the country that are pregnant with complications and unforeseen consequences. Our representations in those truly patriotic petitions aim to forestall the drift toward anarchy and bloodshed in Nigeria, and also to alert the Federal Government of Nigeria and the international community as to where responsibility would ultimately lie if such momentous and terrible events ever came to pass. We expected...

By Ahmed Ibrahim My eyes welled with tears as soon as information of the. Tragic event that happened in the matrimonial home of Bilya and His Wife maryam on Saturday. From experience I know that the family are in for a week of trouble from us. Us the noise makers in social media that majority of us celebrate sad stories but good stories are never worth our while. I was right. Before anyone can substantiate anything the poor girl was at the receiving end of the social media warriors. I tend to hold opinion different from the majority. I may be wrong. We are in a hurry to curse such that we forget that Maryam could be a. normal gentle wife who was involved in a tragic trial that no human will beat his chest and say he can't find himself in such a situation. Some people quickly concluded that It may be related to upbringing. That she is spoilt bla bla bla. I don't think that must be the issue. otherwise, the son of Umar Bin Alkhathab RTA will not commit adultery. You can...