Kene Obiezu

Abuja

Editor-in-Chief at Newsmonts.com

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Storyteller|Lawyer|Fighter

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Articles

West Africa: Nigeria and the Crisis of Homelessness

2 months ago | allafrica.com | Kene Obiezu

A house does not make a home. It takes more than a building to make a home. But without a building, there can be no home and when a person is without a building where they can make their home, that person is said to be homeless. Homelessness goes to the heart of poverty. When a person does not eat constantly or has a few clothes, it is easier to get by.
Death at the threshold of life

2 months ago | thenationonlineng.net | Kene Obiezu

By Kene ObiezuSir: Some days ago, Nigerians were shocked by the heart-breaking story of how one Kemi Folajimi, a pregnant woman died because her husband could not afford the sum of N500,000 upfront at a private hospital in Lagos. They were directed to the General Hospital in Epe but the woman did not survive the journey. The woman has gone down as one more victim in a country that is struggling badly at the moment.
To Take Back A Country -By Kene Obiezu

2 months ago | opinionnigeria.com | Kene Obiezu

Nigeria is neither a zoo nor a concentration camp; neither is the country a jungle. Describing the country as such no matter the provocation is ill-informed, ill-advised and ill-time. What Nigeria is not is a zoo, a concentration camp or a jungle. It is a country that has fallen on hard times, one abused by successive governments, which is now crying out for citizens to reclaim it.
A Jungle Without Justice -By Kene Obiezu

2 months ago | opinionnigeria.com | Kene Obiezu

As a country, Nigeria feels strange in so many ways. These feelings of strangeness are no doubt largely supplied by the aching possibility that anything can happen at any time. To reckon with the strangeness that bites them like serpents, Nigerians treat each other like strangers in competition for strangled resources. There is a kind of brutal and bludgeoning aggression that many Nigerians bring to bear in their relationship with each other.
A sacrilegious attack on human lives

2 months ago | thenationonlineng.net | Kene Obiezu

By Kene ObiezuSir: On March 27, 16 hunters of Northern extraction travelling from Port Harcourt to Kano for Sallah ran into killers stationed at Uromi, Edo State. All it took was a false alarm branding the travellers bandits for the killers to mobilize their bloodlust, bayonets, and butchery skills and fires. All 16 hunters were killed and fed to the fire. The killings have since provoked a national outcry.
A Sacrilegious Attack On Human Lives -By Kene Obiezu

2 months ago | opinionnigeria.com | Kene Obiezu

Instead of milk and honey, Nigeria is rather a country flowing with blood with numerous avoidable and unavoidable deaths, easily making Africa’s most populous economy and democracy one of the most dangerous countries on earth. Within the slaughter slab that the Nigerian space has become, every Nigeria has been spattered by blood to some degree in a country where everyday interactions have been turned to bloodbaths.
Bauchi and the burden of forced marriages

Mar 27, 2025 | thenationonlineng.net | Kene Obiezu

Commentaries By Kene ObiezuSir: At a recent media dialogue organized by Plan International, a non-governmental organization, to discuss and strengthen the implementation of the Violence Against Persons Act, participants revealed that Bauchi State is one of the states in Nigeria with a prevalence of forced marriage, with over 60% of girls married before they are 18 years old.
El-Rufai and the rump of the rooster

Mar 17, 2025 | thenationonlineng.net | Kene Obiezu

By Kene ObiezuSir: A wild leap of faith has taken him to the Social Democratic Party. This statement would have been correct or at least uncontroverted by those who know Nasir El-Rufai, the former Kaduna State governor, but for the fact that he is not known to be a man of faith or fortitude. A lot of what he has raked in from Nigeria’s wildly fluctuating harvest of mindless politics he owes to fate.
Assembly or asylum of representatives?

Mar 13, 2025 | guardian.ng | Kene Obiezu

By Kene Obiezu 14 March 2025 | 1:20 am Nigeria’s independence in 1960 provided a momentous occasion for the country to pause, re-evaluate its excision from Britain’s clogged colonial policy and make a dash for a decorated prosperous future. The Lagos State House of Assembly SIR: Nigeria’s independence in 1960 provided a momentous occasion for the country to pause, re-evaluate its excision from Britain’s clogged colonial policy and make a dash for a decorated prosperous future.
Lent, Ramadan and the road to peace

Mar 12, 2025 | thenationonlineng.net | Kene Obiezu

Commentaries By Kene ObiezuSir: With the Lenten season for Christians starting on March 5, four days after Ramadan started for Muslims on March 1, there is no better time to reflect on how far the country has come and focus on what binds the country together rather than on that which tears Nigerians apart. Unfortunately, and as if to truncate the beginning of these holy periods, some needless controversies have cropped up in different states.