Ogiri John Ogiri

By Ogiri John Ogiri. Real jobs are not created by consumption; they are created by sustained production. We need a leader who understands the economic dynamics of how to inspire and boost our national productive capacity and move the nation towards economic self-reliance through a sustainable job creation initiative. We do not even need a religious man to be our president. We need a man who is secular enough to understand our common diversity and manage it for national progress. This why we cannot afford to see the 2023 election as just another normal election. It is a contestation between the youth and the aged; it is a struggle between the working population and the dependent population; it is a struggle between the "soro soke" generation and the old generation; it is a clash of change and the status quo ante. It is a contest between economic prudence and wastefulness; wealth creation and skewed enrichment by a few. It is the people-inspired revolution against the few privi...

By Ogiri John Ogiri. Obi is a phenomenon. Ignore him at your peril. "Obism" is an ideology of a pristine political era whose time has come. He is seen by the youths as a fire-brand, revolutionary alternative among other contenders. He personifies the visions and hope of the Nigerian youths for a different but better Nigeria than we have now. For me, Obi is the Nigerian version of Barack Obama, who, with a gourd of revolutionary dreams from his fathers tied to his chest, dared to hope in a country where a high level of fixations and outlandish obsessions with the status quo ante dominated popular political thinkings and postulations. Nigeria is a country where the kind of Obi's audacity to hope for revolutionary change through the presidency is easily wished away and perceived as a rebellion against the Nigeria's kind of conservative politics which invariably favours the perpetuation of the status quo ante. Obi is a phenomenal wind of a representative change. His sweep...

By Ogiri John Ogiri. Over the years, I have pondered over this question with serious worries. I have been worried because despite showing love, gunning for peace and demonstrating charity, Christians in Nigeria have not been seen as equal in humanity with our half brothers from the other side of the foreign religious divide. It has degenerated so bad that Nigeria has now come to be seen by many as the most dangerous place for Christians in the 21st century. Attacks on Christians' places of worship have continued unabated with disturbing casualties. More worrisome is the disturbing but suspicious silence from the government on the whole killings. This seems to be a nod of tacit approval of the daily killings. From the Northwestern to the Northeastern Nigeria; from Owo in Ondo State to Igama, Edumoga Ehaje in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State among many others too numerous to highlight, the story follows the same pattern. It is the same story of pain, anguish a...