The controversies surrounding the election of HRM. Pastor Elaigwu Odogbo John as the their Och’Idoma, paramount ruler of Idoma kingdom of Benue State, might be ending soon. This is as a group of Idoma youths under the auspices of Idoma National Youth Development Forum (INYDF), on Sunday, January 2nd, 2022, declared that they have accepted the new monarch as their “God ordained and Idoma given brand new king elect”. This was the first time any pan-Idoma group would be coming out publicly to accept the new monarch who’s emergence has been trailed with mixed reactions. It would be recalled that…
Author: Edoka Itodo
“It takes six people to lift up a coffin. Imagine how great life would be if six of us can lift each other up every day.” – Unknown. I was taking a nice nap on the couch on a breezy sunny afternoon when gunshots rang out in my street. It turns out the sound was some Muslim and Christian gun-stars and gangsters clashing again. I was still basking under the influence of the opiate when I heard doleful wails from across the street – of voices mostly women and children, and security operatives drooling with their usual sirens, ”wow wow…
As I thought of writing this piece, the song “Spiritual Healing” by legendary Nigerian musician, Innocent Idibia, ceremoniously known as 2Baba, popped up in my head especially the line, “To be civilized, you don’t have to be educated”. But who said you can’t be educated and civilized? Far from it. But, you can be educated (miseducated) and not civilized. Once I saw a man, a supposed university don who pontificated that a certain people no matter how qualified should never be entrusted with a certain political office over those of his own ethnic nationality. His only reason, I guessed, was…
