There is war across the River Niger in the east, a war for Biafran nationhood. It is one hell of a war for the soul of...
“Omo, wetin dey shele. What’s gwan man?” “Helloooo. Are you okay?” “Yeah, yeah, my bro” “Can you speak English? I don’t get your drift. All these...
Sheikh Isa Ali Pantami holds a strategic position in the Muhammadu Buhari presidency. He is the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy. He is young at...
If you were a fan of the dissolved News of the world you would understand what I am trying to do with this title. They were...
As the quest for secession by several ethnic groups in Nigeria hots up, two major tribes have been more vocal than the rest- the Igbos of...
The Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, otherwise known as Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, is a great man of faith dedicated to serving...
The former Vice-President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, is an elder statesman whose service to the fatherland is acknowledged in positive and negative manner. Positively, he could...
This is a difficult column to write because although scores of people have importuned me to intervene in the controversy regarding Communication and Digital Economy Minister...
Profiling. Targeting. Scapegoating. In Nigeria, you are more likely to effectuate wry remarks and suspicious stares if you are the prototypical Muslim with full-bred beard, a...
Anarchy is upon us, anarchy is upon our land! It has sown tears, sorrow and blood already. From the north to the middle belt, south-west to...
It is the bounden duty of every citizen to hold the government to account. In fact, citizenship is a call to duty – for the state....
The current pandemic has shown that there is a need to re-examine what lies at the heart of healthcare, which is the health and wellbeing of...
In politics, a very powerful strategy sometimes is to fly kites. Since we lack sophisticated methods of gauging public opinions through well conducted polls and other...
Prior to the Easter holiday President Muhammadu Buhari flew to London to keep a medical date with his British doctors. According to the presidency it was...
The former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, is the official candidate of the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the...
Nigeria is at a tempestuous crossroads. It will be a failed attempt at casuistry to play down the multi-pronged encumbrances the country is contending with. All...
Ironies litter the landscape. Newspapers chose to emphasize the back of the president as he climbed aboard the presidential jet to go for another medical check-up...
Recently the former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, marked his 69th birthday with...
The Executive Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, is a man playing populist politics. He is a special political breed in the sense that he...
The roads leading to the two Nigerian ports in Lagos have been for many years an abiding source of heartache and nightmare. Businesses have had to...
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria means many things to many people — Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike. To the Buharists or Buharideens he is the best thing...
We need new alliances – political, social, and humanitarian concordat. But we must start from a foreground of truth to achieve this holy grail. Our history...
Recently online discomforting news emerged about a Nigerian lady, Ms Itunu Babalola, living in the city of Bondoukou, Ivory Coast. Bondoukou is about eight hours drive...
I have written on this subject before now: the politics and drama of OPL 245 involving ENI, Royal Dutch Shell, Malabu Oil and Gas and the...
Governor Mala Buni is an interesting fellow, looks like he is always smiling but I am yet to see him perform anything tangible as a Governor....
John Pombe Joseph Magufuli was the President of the Republic of Tanzania until last Wednesday when he died officially of “heart complications” at a hospital in...
There is really nothing exciting about writing on this government anymore. The issues are one sided like driving on a one-way street. No colour. The government...
In the tome of liberation struggles, a few names resonate infinitely. One name that rings trenchant to this day is Ernesto ‘’Che’’ Guevara. ‘’Che’’ envisioned a...
James Onanefe Ibori was the Executive Governor of the oil-rich Delta State in Nigeria for eight years. During the years he spent executively in Asaba Government...
Last year October fire and fury raged in many southern cities and towns in Nigeria over the mindless brutality, torture, extortion and killings associated with the...
The media possesses near-celestial powers. It calls into existence what must be and what must not be. It can actuate change and mobilise consciences to a...
When I returned home some years ago during the Yuletide holiday my brother, Azuka, had come to the international airport in Lagos to welcome me. As...
Genocides or mass killings do not just happen. They are usually harbingered by conspiracy theories of ethnic and religious complexions, sentiments, skewed perceptions and assumptions. Are...
Dear Nigerian elite/leader/politician, Nigerians had waited with bated anticipation for the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines in order to combat the spread of this insidious virus....
Nothing gives more pleasure than the fact that one sees through some of these opaque initiatives to hoodwink and continuously keep the masses at bay. The...
No region in Nigeria is a self-sufficient archipelago. None is more fortunate in human and material assets than the other. Each region has its unique quality...
The amalgamation of southern and northern protectorates inextricably complicated Nigeria’s destiny – Chinua Achebe, 2012. THE PROGERIA phenomenon aptly captures the Nigerian dilemma. Progeria, also called...
I see the vapid and tepid response of the Buhari administration to the slew of juvenile abductions as the prodrome of elite bias. Yes, the proportion...
One of the news item that was reported by a good number of media houses across the country on the 2oth of February, 2020 was the...
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” Written by the famous author Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the maxim holds great significance with simple yet profound meaning. The proverb...
Did the activities of militants in the Niger Delta qualify as crime? Hell Yes! Militancy and kidnapping were a profitable pursuit in that oil-rich region in...
Imo State was blessed with a prudent statesmanly Governor in the early 80s, the late Samuel Onunaka Mbakwe. Mbakwe loved Imolites and Imolites loved him. He...
The wife of the President, Hajia Aisha Buhari, turned 50 recently. On the social media platforms congratulatory messages from concerned Nigerians and friends and well-wishers poured...
Where are Nigerians going to run to or who are they going to call on, to save them from Fulani marauders across the Country? Fulani freedom...
My people, I have come into some facts; real facts that have shown that the problem is not Buhari o. It is us and our priorities....
When God created the heaven and earth according to the credible account in Genesis found in the Holy Bible, He had made a man, Adam, in...
The idea of having a near-perfect country out of a ruptured Nigeria is illusory. The composite parts of the country each contribute to the miasma of...
The desperate attempts by President Donald Trump to overturn a free and fair U.S. presidential election of 2020 ought to create every sense of urgency for...
A Havard PhD dissertation by Viridiana Rios Contreras revealed that 19 out the 50 most violent cities in the world are in Mexico. Doubtless, Mexico is...
Christianity is a big business in Nigeria yet it is in big trouble. In a morally-corrupt clime where evil seems to have triumphed over good those...
