Lagos City Boy

What’s the funniest misunderstanding you’ve ever been part of? When the wind blows, the anus of the chicken is exposed. The Lagos City Boy became national and his ineptness and sheer corruption exposed the joke on Nigeria. When they tell you who they are, believe them.

Ga’a-Niger: Abonnema’s Civil War Ordeal and the Human Cost of Division: Adapted from the recollections recorded by Elvis Sonny, Esq

History is often told through generals, politicians and battle maps. Yet the true story of war is usually found in the memories of ordinary people who lived through it. For the people of Abonnema in present-day Rivers State, the Nigerian Civil War was not merely a conflict between the Federal Government and Biafra. It was …

WHAT THE ABONNEMA MAN WENT THROUGH IN THE HANDS OF THE BIAFRAN SOLDIERS DURING THE 1968 CIVIL WAR IN NIGERIA By Elvis Sonny, Esq (Repost)

The term “Ga’a-Niger” was taken from the IBO dialect and “Ga’a” in Ibo means “GO-TO”. “Niger” as a word was the short form of Royal Niger Company which later changed its name to United African Company (UAC). It was a British trading company that existed right from the colonial days situated by the shore of …

When Tactical Brilliance Meets Strategic Confusion: Washington’s Iran Problem by Lawson Akhigbe

But wars are not graded like Olympic gymnastics. There are no medals for technical execution if the end result leaves your opponent intact, emboldened, or—worse—adapted.