I am neither a prophet nor a clairvoyant, but from the manifestation in my crystal ball, I see Nigeria in 2023 being shaped by upheaval fueled...
The broom is an essential traditional domestic instrument used to clean our homes and surroundings. There are of course other modernized tools which could equally serve...
In July 2015, Nigerian President, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, fresh from that year’s presidential election victory after three failed successive attempts visited the United States of America...
2023. It is the turn of the south-east to produce Nigeria’s next president, but it is not the auspicious time for the region to do so....
Professor Farooq Kperogi is a Nigerian-born Journalism and Emerging Media lecturer at the Kennesaw State University in Atlanta Georgia, the United States. He is one of...
Strange things happen. One of such happened in an unlikely place last week. In Nigeria. Our President, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari apologized to us on the myriad...
Did you know Ifeanyi Okowa is running for president in 2023? Well, yes, he is. I was surprised when I learnt the governor of Delta state...
Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the elected Anambra State Governor, took his oath of office in Awka last Wednesday (March 17th). It was a low-key event according...
General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) needs no introduction in Nigeria and elsewhere around the world. As a professional coup-plotter who overthrew another coup-plotter (now President, Muhammadu...
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SLAM dunk is a basketball term. Ordinarily, it means a shot in which a player thrusts the ball down through the basket. In that situation the...
Author: Adaoha Ugo-Ngadi (Mrs) There was no missing March 8 on the global calendar for women. It has been forty-five years since the United Nations(UN) singled...
Every sadistic narcissist has his plan in place before embarking on their hysterical wars, just like Obaseki is seen doing in every gathering he calls for....
Let us begin today’s discourse with a sexy but philosophical quiz. Which of the following best describes the meaning of life? (A) Life is a battle...
There will eventually be a motley crowd of contenders and pretenders to the presidency of Nigeria in 2023 on the platform of the ruling All Progressives...
President Muhammadu Buhari can be inscrutable. Difficult to predict and divine. You cannot tell what he is thinking. And like the old general that he is,...
As the countdown to the March 6, 2022 swearing ceremony of the Anambra State governor-elect Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has begun, it is pertinent to discuss an...
The prosecuted (detained) leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has a date with justice yet again on the 18th day...
It is really sad and disappointing. Russia has invaded Ukraine. A country deliberately invaded a neighboring in country in 2022. With all the defense mechanisms set...
The choice of the date for the commencement of the latest and ongoing strike of the Academic Staff Union of [Nigerian] Universities [ASUU] was uncanny. The...
Perhaps it is not of order to begin this piece by pointing out clearly that this writer has nothing personal against the personality of the former...
Second chances. Not everyone deserves them. What will former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) do differently if by the contrivance of fate, he runs for presidential...
In reality and in the present circumstances, Okoro is barely a citizen of Nigeria. It does not really matter that the Igbo man is autochonous and...
Liberia, a West African Americanized country, is unique in a couple of ways. It is about the oldest African Republic. It happened to be the global...
Killing, killing, killing in the name of Biafra! When did murder become typical of the Igbo stock? When did taking innocent lives become classic in Igbo...
Whoever doubted the determination of retired Brig-Gen. Mohammad Buba Marwa, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Chairman to rid Nigeria of narcotics business and drug...
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Nigeria in a split decision voted 6-1 to nullify Executive Order 10 through which the Federal Government of Nigeria had...
In every society there are laws and institutions created to sustain order and stability. In a society like Nigeria, we uphold and practice the Federal system...
Strange despicable things happen daily in Nigeria. And everyone seems to be accustomed to them to the extent that no one is ever shocked any longer...
IT would appear that because of the All Progressives Congress [APC] regime, Nigerians have been led to make a pact with troubles. And the troubles come...
The business of politics globally involves money, filthy lucre, hubris and dirty tricks. The dirtier you are, especially in Nigeria, the more chances of scoring it...
Fellow Nigerians, This is a special day in the chequered history of our dear nation. I come before you humbly as a servant and not the...
To ‘japa’ or not to ‘japa’, that is not the question. The question is; if not Naija, where else? If it is not Naija, e no...
Agwa ka nma na eke turu. The foregoing is Igbo. It will take an effort, real one, to find the English language equivalent. So I will...
The submissions made by Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari on the Niger Delta Development Commission in an article...
In Nigeria’s politics, the north is indispensable – and it has always been. By the contrivance of kismet, the north has always held all the aces...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is an interventionist agency created for the development of the oil producing region of the country. Well, it is meant...
Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, the former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor and winner by landslide of the Anambra gubernatorial election of late last year, cannot be...
Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives was the Guest Speaker at the 52nd Convocation Ceremony of the University of Lagos, his alma mater, on...
AUTHOR: Ugo Onuoha BOOBY-TRAP! That is what the regime of the President, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has set for the administration, if any, that would succeed him...
Has Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, lost his trenchant voice to the serpentine politics of Aso Rock? Has the fabled Lion of Ubima been emasculated and...
‘Why always Obi Cubana?’ The businessman has become a news staple. Every week Obi Cubana is in the news – but sometimes for controversial reasons. The...
Please, bear with me. This matter throws up somethings. So, I have just learnt that Sammie has a grown up child with Gloria Ibru that he...
There is a unanimity of opinion among the Forbes100 list of the world’s richest people that the hope, expectations and desire for quick wins, physical pleasure,...
After many years of colonialism by the French, the English, the Portuguese and the Belgians many African countries gained independence in a blaze of glory in...
For the record and for posterity, it is imperative to state that oil found in the Niger Delta region belongs to the people of the area....
Politics is a thing composed of components having high take of issues upon the monumental outcome – these components are the highest cost of societies and...
Evidently, one thing is clear about the youth category, the boundaries defining the transition from childhood to youth and from youth to adulthood are shifting, and...
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), appeared before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja...
When preparation unites with expectations and opportunity – results happen. For every feat, there must be diligent preparation and effort. Nothing takes shape in disarray, grumbling...
Some of the replies under the recent tweets by Nigeria’s vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on the plans of government to further explore the Blue Economy,...
