HANK ESO

 

Gaddafi as Africa’s Moses Incarnate

 

Rebranding Nigeria: Start with Character

 

An Observer as a Critical Patch of History’s Mosaic

Matters of the Moment: A Special Anniversary Report

 

Obama, Parsimonious Prattlers, and Tendentious Talking Heads

 

Deconstructing Democracy in Africa

 

Nigeria’s March Madness and Governance by Summons

 

Africa Requires No Limits on Command Responsibility

 

The Legacy of Igbo-Made

 

This is not our Nigeria

 

The Secreted Downside of Capitalism -- Greed

 

Redeeming Nigeria’s Governance Architecture

 

Obama Speaks Nigerianese

 

 Obama Projects Hard Power, Skirts Soft Power and Settles for Smart Power

 

 The Disconcerting Essence of the Atiku-Obasanjo Rapprochement

 

An Ode to Obama

 

Reframing the Governance Discourse in Nigeria

 

Can Anything Good Come out of Africa? : Look at Ghana

 

 Incessant Kidnappings and the Beirutization of Nigeria

 

 Farewell to a Tumultuous, Frenetic, and Irresolute 2008

 

Nigeria:  Yes, We Could Have; but no, We Didn’t

 

Expedient Judicial Temperament Abets Impunity

 

A Shout-Out to Brother 'Bam

 

Romancing, Yet Not Romanticizing Nigeria

 

Remembering Sankara

 

Voiceless, Indolent, Visionless, and Apathetic Africa

 

Looking in on America 2: Making Sense of Commonsense

 

Looking in on America

 

 The Essence of Zuma’s Revenge

 

Mbeki’s Ouster: Double Jeopardy for the Rule of Law and Politics

 

The Rise and Fall of (BGK) - Baba Gana Kingibe

 

Strange bedfellows and political realities

 

 Disquiet over Yar’Adua’s Health Mushrooms

A bitter thought on being “bitter”

 

Bakassi: Time to Seize the Moment

 

Bunkering, Blood, Bungling and Botching Niger Delta Policy

 

Zimbabwe: Limits of Rationality

 

A Jaded Humphrey Nwosu Finds his Mislaid Voice

 

 General Adhekegba’s Suit: Self-serving, yet a democratic imperative

 

Obama: The Audacity of Choice

 

Igbo quandary

 

 Political positioning and rhetoric undermine Nigeria’s democracy

 

Yar’Adua’s “no friend, no foe” Presidency

 

Nigeria’s paradoxical ways with its oil

 

Damning Xenophobic Incivility in South Africa (updated)

 

Demythologization and Denial of Rev. Jeremiah Wright

 

A bitter thought on being “bitter”

 

Zimbabwe: No More a Garden of the Blind

 

Debunking the “Grange Principles”

 

Nigeria’s Expressway to Hell 

 

 A General’s Apostasy

 

Ogebe’s severe judicial reverse

 

If Tomorrow Comes for Nigeria

 

Food Riots - The Coming Global Nightmare

 

 Obama on my mind

 

Nigeria’s disappearing middleclass

 

 

Who is watching Nigeria’s children?

 

 Ribadu’s egress deciphered

 

Emergent Nigeria: Real or a façade?

 

Nigeria’s Governance Revelation:  ‘No Condition is Permanent’

 

Strangers in Africa bearing gifts

 

Judicial supremacy in Nigeria

 

 Ettehgate ~ The end state

 

Ettehgate: The knots, bolts and details

 

Taiwo Akinkumi: And the labors of our heroes past

 

Yaraduaology

 

Etteh’s egotism, cullibility, and venality

 

The Nigerians are coming! The Nigerians are coming!

 

Yar’Adua’s 100 days of bliss

 

Soludo's Hobessian Contractarianism

 

Soludo’s proposed reform: Naira’s nadir and Nigeria’s ill wind

 

Respect for public office and its confines

 

 Egregious injustice

 

Your Jailcellency, Sir!

 

 

 Ouch! I did not make BGS’ ministerial list!

 

Public Disclosures: Yar’Adua, Transcorp, and Nigerians

 

A salute to tenacity and courage

 

Obasanjo in retrospect

 

Anambra ~ A convenient closure

 

The Nigerian judiciary as a paradigm of the great society

 

Foreclosing on Zimbababwe

 

Embracing Pat Utomi

 

Peter Obi as Waziri Ibrahim’s apostle

 

Integrity in Internet punditry ...

 

A sacrifice Atiku needs to make

 

 

Brothers, defuse!

[Join the debate!]

 

They call us Inconsequential

 

Did Obasanjo deliberately bequeath a third-rate leadership team to Nigeria?

 

 Exit of “PW”- A malevolent and loathsome leader

 

Seeds of anarchy

 

Sympathy or Antipathy: Peter Obi met the moral,  judicial, and historical imperatives

 

Army arrangement in Ekiti  

Dearth of letter writing and the death of history

 

Busting out of my summer reverie

 

Post-Third Term reality: A possible fate far worse

 

“I Go Chop Your Dollar”:  Free speech v. abetting criminality

 

Niger Delta Plan: A positive and propitious afterthought

 

Democracy struggles in Nigeria

 

Charles Taylor’s apparition resurrected 

 

Conversations with my Nigerian compatriots

 

Hail to Senator Udo Udoma’s élan and courage

 

Anambra State and the Ides of Marc

 

Is Orji Uzor Kalu the Man?

 

The Niger Delta conundrum

 

Adubasim's Doctrine: You caveman, idiot, moron, and fool!

 

For Ndiigbo in New Jersey, things fall apart  

 

Curbing the angst in the Niger delta

 

The Niger Bridge as a metaphor  

 

OBJ's third-term bid:  A clever political ruse

 

Pat Robertson’s fatwa: Drawing hate with fighting words

 

Anambra saga: This kabuki isn’t over until it’s over

 

The balanced voice of reason

 

The paradox and blithe cruelty of Igbo individualism

 

When two elephants fight...

 

The enigma of Pope “Benny”

 

Parsing the IgboUSA-Anambra-Enugu saga

 

An ode for a progressive Nigerian:  Senator Amah Iwuagwu

 

Essence of the coming conclave

 

A church challenged

 

OBJ's war on corruption: The body count has begun

 

Oga, make we manage am so!

 

 Fencing Odumegwu-Ojukwu from the NPRC, grossly impolitic

 

Nigeria’s National Dialogue: Crossing the Rubicon

 

 Nuisance Value of the Nigerian Internet pundit

 

The Tsunami: why not me, why not us?

 

Audu Ogbeh's crime

 

 Happy New Year – May the law be with you

 

 

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Before Nigeria's next tipping point

 

Our recusant leadership and the emergent risks

 

Anambra: Precepts upon precepts

 

Twelve questions for Tai Solarin

 

WIC in New Jersey – The fat lady is yet to sing

 

Rethinking Nigeria

 

Cold reality: "Igbo presidency" in 2007 elusive

 

OBJs proclamation on Plateau: How kosher?

 

OBJ and Plateau State: Nigeria's democracy at risk

 [See also: President Obasanjo's broadcast]

From Achebe --a refreshing candor and insight

 

SNFD Syndrome: Why Okoro must go home to marry

 

Ruminating on our leadership

 

Destructive tendencies a.k.a. "Egwu Mgbashiriko"

 

The disquieted Nigerian

 

Political revelations: There ought to be a law

 

Serendipity: Nigeria, circa 2027

 

Curbing 419

 

It’s security, stupid!

 

See also: Chronicling the killings: The whole world is watching.)

 

 $: The pa$$ion of the Nigerian

 

A political activist’s plausible excuse and a pundit’s dilemma

Nigeria: These unsettled times

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Nigeria’s “Bungee Jumping”

 

Of Okadigboism and our posterity

 

NFA dribbling:  Enter Bryan Robson

 

The dark allegory of happy Nigerians

 

Of El-Rufai’s allegation, the senate’s apophthegm, and the truth

 

The El-Rufai factor

 

The dark allegory of happy Nigerians

 

When some Igbo leaders become clever by half

 

Of things taken for granted…

 

Nigeria: The saving of Liberia

 

The labors of our heroes past:  What will it be?

 

NGIGEGATE: The paradox of Nigeria’s divided government

 

Nigeria, we have a problem

 

For once, a good public policy

 

The prerogatives of power: The case of Anyim P. Anyim

 

In the matter of mo v. Wabara

 

Nigeria's surrealistic politics

 

Nigerian leaders and the rule of law

 

Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s view on Nigeria

 

Kalu, Egwu, Nnamani, Ngige, and Udenwa, Inc.

 

A bad cultural example, Mr. President

 

Deciphering PDP’s electoral coup de main

 

The government we deserve

 

Nigeria: Religion as a tool of politics

 

Not to be served, but to serve

 

The Nigerian enigma

Mom, please split your vote

 

Permutations of an Igbo presidency