Anambra State scored a remarkable feat on March 30 by becoming the first state in Nigeria to bring together eminent stakeholders in a conference to singularly address the obstacles facing broadband deployment and expansion in the country. The well-attended conference…
Jega goes jaga-jaga – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Confusion has taken over the entire land of Nigeria. To use the popular parlance, “everything is now jaga-jaga!” As I write now, the music of Eedris Abdulkareem booms: “Nigeria jaga-jaga! Everything scatter-scatter! Gunshots in the air…” Let’s start this jaga-jaga…
Let’s destroy all the columnists! – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The acute hatred in my heart now-now, as we do say in Nigeria, is about the characters called columnists. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired over the antics of the jobbers of Nigerian journalism who call…
The most dangerous house in Lagos – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
A do-gooder told his landlord that any tenant who sends the police after the owner of the house “is capable of killing you.” This selfsame Tenant Do-Good not only called the police on the landlord but capped it all up…
Marketing products beyond politics- Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The 250ml liquid antiseptic on my table as I write now commands attention. The product is called “YESS Antiseptic” and bears the tagline “always protecting”. It is meant “for external use only” and there are directions on the capfuls needed…
Yawa! Like a plane flying without a pilot- Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The people who speak big grammar would say that Nigeria is in auto-pilot. This is the fattest lie ever told by man. Auto-pilot means Automatic Pilot that can fly a plane safely to its destination without the need of the…
When Nigeria won her first world cup in 1977 – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Not many Nigerians know that the country won a world cup in football back in 1977. Most Nigerians would regale you with stories of 1985 when Nigeria won the maiden Kodak Under-16 world cup through the Nduka Ugbade-led team. The…
Yerimaism is a bandit ideology – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There is more trouble in Zamfara State than in Sambisa Forest. Let’s note, for starters, that President Muhammadu Buhari has not declared a “No-Fly Zone” in Sambisa as he has just done in Zamfara. The trouble with Zamfara did not…
Ojukwu: Nigeria’s most controversial patriot – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Ojukwu: The ‘Rebel’ I Served by Uche Ezechukwu; ThoniMartins Ltd, Abuja, Benin, Lagos; 2012 Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu almost always dominated all discourse in the course of his journey on earth. In death he upped the ante of his enigmatic profile through…
O’boy, APC can kidnap more than PDP o – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Let’s play politics – party politics, that is. No less a worthy philosopher than Aristotle stated that man is by nature a political animal, and who am I not to obey the great philosopher by playing my own politics on…