“We don’t believe in cheating or rigging elections but also we don’t want other parties to cheat us, and that was why we encouraged the Kaduna...
Soccer analysts and lovers of football in Nigeria were highly disappointed by the recent troucing of the home Super Eagles by 4-0 by the Mexican national...
Governor Yahaya Adoza Bello of Kogi State was born on June 18, 1975 in Okene, Kogi State. Bello is about the youngest Governor in Nigeria and...
It is important to state from the beginning that this piece stemmed not from orchestrated troubling realities in the country, poor leadership induced failures and dissatisfaction/disaffections...
The Executive Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ioraer Ortom was born on the 23 April, 1961. He is an accomplished politician, businessman, administrator and philanthropist. He...
The fear of ethnic domination is as old as Nigeria. Mutual recriminations and suspicion have been the scourge of Nigeria’s cohesive development. The south-east says it...
When I die, I would want to be given a humanist funeral. I do not want a religious funeral service because such a ceremony is not...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s main opposition party, is currently in the throes of a commotion that threatens to destroy the party’s capability to put...
I learned two separate but related lessons from a keynote speech delivered by Senator (DR) Ifeanyi Okowa, the Executive Governor of Delta State, at the 2021...
Chief Joseph Igbokwe is a Lagos-based businessman turned politician of fortune. He is a proud ‘Lagosian’ much like his mentor, the former Governor of Lagos State...
I really enjoy sex scandals involving our pastors. It makes for real good drama and serves to distract us from the gory stories that daily assail...
Zambia is a ‘special’ country in the centre of southern part of Africa. ‘Special’ in the sense that the spectacular Victoria Falls are on Zambia’s border...
From what we have seen and heard so far, it seems most likely that the race for the 2023 Presidential position would end up as the...
“The stubborn listens to nobody’s advice and becomes a victim of his own delusion.” — Aesop He came out smoking. He was fire-cracking. He flailed feebly...
The Taliban extremist forces are back in power in Afghanistan. Following the gradual withdrawal of the American occupation forces the religious ‘terrorist’ government took effective control...
National affability has much to do with what we think of one another; how we talk to one another, and what we call one another. As...
The country has been agog this week with fallout from the signing of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. That legislation has now become...
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us’’- Joseph Campbell When...
One of the first things I picked up very early in this business of public affairs analysis is something senior colleagues referred to as Afghanistanism. If...
Some of us read Julius Caesar in school and ‘beware the ides of March’ caught on. It was the greatest betrayal of all time. Julius Caesar...
Pastor Christopher Oghenebrorie Okotie, better known as Chris Okotie, is the founder of Household of God Church International Ministries. In 1987 after a thrilling career in...
Whenever the need to write a Will is discussed, people tend to excuse themselves from the discourse. This is due to the myth linking the writing...
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), Nigeria’s military Head of State, 1985–1993 is arguably the most controversial person to have ever led Nigeria since independence. He turns...
The voluble Spokesman of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Emma Powerful had released a statement recently indicating that starting from Monday next week (August 9)...
The advancement of any society revolves around its politics. A system, putrefying and governed by chaos, tells much about the politics of that set-up. A society...
The quota system in Nigeria was conceived to address an inequitable system, but the prevailing “unjust system” betrayed the purpose for which the quota system was...
Ralph Waldo Emerson who propounded the theory of Compensation in 1841, argued that Nemesis is as certain as night begets day, that all unjust accumulation of...
The story of Abba Kyari, the Deputy Commissioner of Police and erstwhile head of the Nigerian Police Intelligence Response Team speaks to the fate of all...
Just weeks after Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the mercurial erstwhile fugitive leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its military wing, the Eastern Security...
“Ore, I looked for you yesterday? Where were you?” “I dey for house now? Where I for dey?” “I actually thought you had gone to a...
I told a friend just days before the most outrageous burial of Innyom Ezinne Uche Iyiegbu in Oba, Anambra State in July that I had given...
Some decades ago as a teenager a village brother based in Lagos had taken me to the late Victor Okafor’s birthday bash somewhere in Ihiala, Anambra...
This is a new low for Nigeria. We seem to have become global slaves. Our reputation as a comity of people is now at its lowest...
South Africa recently witnessed days of rage, fire and fury following the incarceration of the former President of the country, Jacob Zuma. He was officially accused...
The sociology of death and funerals is an important aspect of the African cosmogony. Parents pray that their children should outlive them in order to give...
It is stale news that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled fugitive leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network (ESN), was...
So, for the last few days we have been regaled by an almost obscene and vulgar outpouring of wealth in Oba, a sleepy hamlet in Anambra...
Recently a report online indicated that the Department of State Services (DSS) had arrested three Israelis shooting a documentary in Ogidi town, Idemili North Local Government...
The political elites of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have chosen to regress to the stone age in matters of election at a time that...
When the COVID-19 ravaged China and other Asian countries, renowned public health professionals and the World Health Organization were concerned about Africa’s readiness and capacity in...
Insecurity and political crisis have beneficiaries and sponsors. For the political class, it is fair game to exploit and deploy every instrument in the combat repository...
True is the saying that, when it rains, it pours. And if the last few weeks have told us anything in Northern Nigeria, it is that...
The media naturally should serve only the public interest. What determines ‘’public interest’’ may be amorphous, but safety and security are principal elements of communal interest....
The re-arraignment of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, June 27, 2021, has reinforced the events and idealization...
The current unrest and divide across ethnic and religious lines in Nigeria have made life very difficult, unbearable and tense for many living in Nigeria. Lack...
Avarice and prejudice drove European conquistadors to carve up much of Africa like cake. With the gradual end of the transatlantic slave trade spurred by the...
Just days after the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) fugitive leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was ‘kidnapped’ in Kenya and brought back home...
The story of the abduction, forcible extradition and re-arraignment of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) by the Nigerian government...
When a few weeks ago, President Muhammadu Buhari declared that those who seek to overwhelm and undermine the Nigerian state would soon be spoken to in...
I grew up with Igbo people. In fact, my best friend for a long while as a child was from Ohafia, he was Igbo. But ever...
