Author: David Da-Costa Shodeinde

A FEDERAL High Court in Abuja has convicted the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu of terrorism charges brought against him. News Point Nigeria reports that Justice James Omotosho, while delivering the judgement, determined the three issues raised in the trial in favour of the prosecution. The judge held that the threats of violence issued by Kanu in his broadcasts created fear and anxiety in the minds of members of the public in the Southeast. Justice Omotosho held that based on the evidence provided by the prosecution, the ingredients of terrorism were established in the…

THE many, heavy, and grave afflictions which denude the nation will not be off-staged by a goodwill reversal of the national anthem; great symbolism but no substance. An anthem does not fill up the empty stew pot, gleaming, bright, and bare. An anthem does not fill an empty belly. An anthem is not physical and material. What is not material is patently immaterial; that is what the people are saying. The ponderous and oppressive national anthem imposed on the nation, an ulcerous cacophonous dump has been revoked and retired. I was one of the few who campaigned restlessly for the…