Uchenna Osigwe

But for the pressure from some Western countries, led by America, the recently sacked army chiefs in Nigeria, prompted by their commander in chief, would have derailed the election that brought Muhammadu Buhari to power in March.

‘Lies may be flying for decades but one minute of truth would catch up with them and overtake them’. —A Yoruba proverb

Winston Churchill in volume 1, chapter 8 of his book “The Gathering Storm” (1948), quoted the response of former Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), to the French Foreign Minister who requested, on 13 May 1935, that the Soviet Union should encourage Catholicism so as to propitiate the pop

Zimbabwe just had general presidential and parliamentary elections in which the ruling party simply swept the votes contrary to the expectations of many.

On the 12th of June 1993, Nigerians went to the polls in great numbers, indeed in the greatest numbers ever, and voted massively for Moshood Abiola (27 August 1937- 7 July 1998) to become their president.

‘Clever people are not credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!’ — Friedrich Nietzsche

Secretary Clinton said in her message to mark the day that many women are prisoners of conscience around the world.

There is something about Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu that many who thronged different parts of the country, nay different parts of the world, faithfully following his numerous funeral processions, seemed to have overlooked. It is something that Nigeria needs desperately now.