Brands built on the Ignorance of the average man are cash cows
By Osmund Agbo If your life goal is to get-rich-quick, just take my candid advice and come up with a business idea with the premise that […]
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What did Goodluck Jonathan forget at the Villa?
By Osmund Agbo For the past several days, the rumor mill has been buzzing non-stop about a potential presidential run in 2023 by Nigeria’s former President […]
Public Intellectuals, the Nigerian left and blind spots
By Osmund Agbo The tone often strikes whimsical when a political activist like Omoleye Sowore is reminded that his reward is in paradise. That is to […]
Unpacking the changing faces of Terror in Nigeria
By Osmund Agbo “The northwest’s problem is not ungoverned spaces as wonks like to say, but spaces governed by criminal sovereigns.”-James Barnett Bandits, Jamā’at Ahl […]
Truth as a casualty in Nigeria’s widening fault lines
By Osmund Agbo Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore continues to be celebrated globally as an economic miracle of the 21st century. “From Third World to First: The […]
Rihanna Fenty, Kanye West and Black America’s burgeoning nouveau riche
By Osmund Agbo Since earlier this week, the internet has been buzzing relentlessly, with no plans to let up. There is this news about a certain […]
“Too busy frontin’ in the hood”: A letter to my son
By Osmund Agbo Dear son, When I first met you, my joy knew no bound. You brought so much love into my heart, the extent […]
The unraveling of Portuguese empire: A historical imperative
By Osmund Agbo Portugal, the small European nation located on the western tip of the Iberian Peninsula, known to have colonized over 50 countries of the […]
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: The Portrait of an African despot
By Osmund Agbo A first time visitor to the University of Calabar will get to learn a few interesting facts. Male and female students refer […]
How the Grinch stole Christmas
By Osmund Agbo Once upon a time, in a magical land of Whoville, lived the Whos. They were a group of little humans who loved […]
Haiti: A black nation’s struggle in the Americas
By Osmund Agbo On 7 July 2021 at 1 a.m. local time, a group of heavily armed gunmen made up of 28 foreign mercenaries, mostly […]
Hell hath no fury than Africa’s Sahel, By Osmund Agbo
Sahel, Arabic for coast or shore is the region of Africa between the Sahara desert to the north and tropical Savannah to the south and […]
The Hostage situation in Nigeria’s southeast, By Osmund Agbo
“Agosu if you go tell them,Tell Nyidevu, Kpeti, and KoveThat they have done us evil;Tell them their house is fallingAnd the trees in the fenceHave […]
Adichie versus Emezi: When sisters feud, by Osmund Agbo
There is a raging showdown between two literary Amazons, both of whom have played a crucial role in shaping contemporary African literature and helped […]
Re: Hassan Gimba’s Open letter to Ndigbo, A Rejoinder, By Osmund Agbo
Dear Hassan, Thank you so much for making out time to reach across. Coming from a place buffeted by the twin evil of Boko Haram […]
Stop this Drift: Calling on the Dora Akunyilis of Nigeria, By Osmund Agbo
Few years ago, precisely on the 23rd of November, 2009, the then President of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua took ill and had to be emergently […]
The Nigerian Police Force: Up the Creek without a Paddle, By Osmund Agbo
There is no worse time than now to be a police officer in Nigeria. With the wave of quotidian insurrections visited on the officers and […]
Rejigging the Black-on-Black Experience in America
By Osmund Agbo Aside from Ikemba Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the fabled warlord and leader of the defunct breakaway Republic of Biafra, almost all my childhood superheroes were […]
Poverty of The Mega-Rich, By Osmund Agbo
It so happened that the loss of someone dear to his heart was what sent my friend George, cascading down the path of searching […]