Perhaps it is not out of place to indicate from the outset that this writer is a proud son of Anambra State. The great land of...
He rarely speaks on things that do not have to do with the work of the Kingdom, which he is completely sold out to, and has...
It isn’t just mere nuisance; it has become a menace. Nigerian media houses tumble over themselves to issue awards to bumbling politicians. It seems driven by...
The Nigerian Armed Forces have had some glorious and inglorious past. Glorious history when General Olusegun Obasanjo handed over power to the late Shehu Shagari following...
Today, let us interrogate the new color of Mega wealth: how the world’s top ten richest men (No women, no African yet) made their money. Are...
Sheikh (Dr.) Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi is an Islamic cleric, scholar based in Kaduna. He was born in Kano on the 1st of October 1960, the...
At Nigerian independent in 1960, the Igbo nation was in control of every sphere of national life. There was Igbo dominance in academics, business, military, civil...
Sometimes back, there had been a debate on whether the teaching of history as a subject in post-basic education should continue. The debate drew our attention...
When two years ago the Sudanese people bravely organized a spontaneous revolution that ended three decades of brutal dictatorship led by Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir the...
The Economist, the international weekly newspaper, has been steadfast and dutiful on its pursuit of a solitary narrative about Nigeria. Going by this newspaper’s disposition towards...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has been in the eye of the storm with the international media recently, and there is a lot that can be...
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was brought to the Federal High Court in Abuja last Thursday, the 21st...
There are millions of us round the country who follow Muhammadu Buhari passionately. Some got enlisted in 1984 when the man was military head of state....
An event took place a year ago that will be etched in our history forever, with olla podrida of tongues and potpourri of voices debating it...
October 2020 is a watershed in Nigeria’s revolutionary history. It is a time that evokes courage, trepidation, solemnity, and despair. Nigerian consciences across divides mobilised and...
In my first series on the run up to the 2023 presidential election, I stated reasons why former governor of Lagos, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, may...
“Credible intelligence at the disposal of the Command has revealed clandestine plans by some youths, individuals or groups to embark on a protest today in commemoration...
For some time now, South East Nigeria has been in the news for the deplorable security situation in the region that got worsened since the abduction...
I was on a drive with a friend, we both share the same passion for Nigeria’s progress and development, when out of the quiet he asked...
How much money, property does a man need? I am compelled to believe that the faculty for primitive accumulation is a pre-historic flaw of the African...
The great city of London means different things to different people around the world. To the British Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street are located some...
I believe we can have NUANCED conversation on trending issues without sacrificing the facts and useful lessons therein. The army has come out to accuse the...
I wanted to speak with someone before I wrote this piece. I wanted to bounce off my position before I put pen to paper. So, I...
The harassment and arrest of celebrated Nollywood actor, Mr. Chiwetalu Agu, on Thursday, 7th October, 2021 by the Nigerian Army is illegal, unconscionable and unwarranted. The...
For me two issues stood out this evening in the National News and I found them very discomforting and alarming. The two of them are (1)...
Last week the husband of the late Dora Akunyili, ex-Minister of Information and Communications and former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration...
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) last Sunday released the “Pandora Papers,” an exposé of the financial secrets and offshore dealings of dozens of heads...
Nigeria would turn 61 on the first day of October this year. Sixty one years of flag independence from the Great Britain. Ordinarily, a 61-year old...
It was not surprising that the Nigerian Diaspora community would gather in New York City at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly to protest...
AUTHOR: Mary Beth Leonard, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria As Nigeria celebrates its national day, we celebrate our enduring bilateral partnership with the continent’s regional, political, and...
Author: Chido Nwakanma It is important to examine the critical submissions of the governor of one of our A-list states amid the din over the control...
The spate of insecurity in the Southeast region is something that should worry not just the state governors in the region, the Federal Government, but every...
Migration is a constant; it is a wheel that keeps roving. Yes, it is in the nature of man to be peripatetic. People will always move...
I have just come back from a trip to Akwa Ibom where I had gone to start work on my new Play, Ufok Ibaan. Ufok Ibaan...
Every month of September annually global leaders usually gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the US, for the UN General Assembly sessions. Leaders...
Fani-Kayode’s duplicity There is something about politicking that makes the average man morph into an inveterate liar. If you spew nonsense or tell lies, someone sooner...
By now we have all long-lost hope about being ruled and led by men of principles. We are now bed run by pay as you go...
Believe it or not, Edo State is currently under the yoke of dictatorship, for many months running. Prior to his election for his second term in...
Civil society groups, including Non-Governmental Organisations are a positive force for change and progress in society, oftentimes helping to bridge the gaps of alienation between government...
Nigeria as a country has gone through so much. Over the years, analysts have looked at the issues hindering the nation’s progress and made several recommendations...
Aminu Bello Masari, 71, is the incumbent Governor of Katsina State. Katsina happens to be the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari who is from Daura...
“Fellow countrymen and women…You are all living witnesses to the great economic predicament and uncertainty, which an inept and corrupt leadership has imposed on our beloved...
President Muhammadu Buhari visited Imo State last week. And during the working visit he commissioned some projects executed by the Uzodinma administration and addressed some selected...
Corrective leadership. Nigeria needs corrective leadership in 2023. No government has it all figured out. While a government may perform superlatively on infrastructure development, it could...
Few weeks ago the Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, had lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari for his failure to tackle ubiquitous banditry...
On Thursday, September 9, I participated in a Colloquium titled “Osun at 30: Celebrating a Milestone, Building a Prosperous Future”, which as the title indicates was...
It emerged late last week that Communications and Digital Economy Minister Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami (or his agents) possibly instructed Zamfara State governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle...
There is something absolutely ‘special’ about Guinea, a poor Francophone country in West Africa. Guineans are proud of their ancestral and cultural heritage. Their first President,...
‘’Restructuring Nigeria’’ is a quandary. There is no concord on the complexion or dimension which the re-engineering of Nigeria should take. There has been a cacophony...
Do you understand what is really happening and what lies on the road ahead? The world tilted slightly on 9/11/2001 when inferno descended on the World...
