Nigeria is the collective heritage of about 200 million people of diverse ethnic backgrounds and tongues. There are over 250 ethnic nationalities spread across the country....
The former Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, recently decamped dramatically from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All...
Nigeria’s congress with China is not one of two equal partners forging a mutually beneficial pact and intercoursing common purposes or goals. It is a relationship...
It was with enormous pain and shock that I read a caption on social media, indicating that some individuals are advocating for the inclusion of paedophilia...
On Thursday, July 23, 2020, the panel of inquiry established by former Governor Emeka Ihedioha to look into the activities of the 27 local governments in...
The Supreme Court decided on June 15 that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination. Discrimination ‘because of sex’...
Whenever the stanza of “the labours of our hero’s past shall not be in vain” is mentioned in the national anthem of Nigeria, what comes to...
Who does Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara thinks he is fooling? His decision to exit the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] for the All Progressive Congress [APC] could...
On April 28, US President Donald Trump in his accustomed cadence said his administration would send 250 ventilators to Nigeria, according to him ‘’Nigeria will do...
In the middle of last month of June this year the President of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, AYCF, Alhaji Shettima Yerima, had granted a controversial...
If Nigeria’s young are timid, tractable and apathetic to economic and political issues affecting their country blame the anvil on which they are forged. The government,...
Mr Thomas Osuji wrote: I am from Owerri; I think that Igbos behaviour has to do with our specific psychology. The Igbo is very competitive. He...
The predominance of poorly conceptualized, omnicidal and rudderless policies and programmes has been one of the major hindrances to Nigeria’s socio-economic and political growth. Hiding behind...
When OBJ government established the EFCC in 2003 in response to pressure from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering for Nigeria to join in...
She sent me a video on Saturday as I was in the thick of raising my annual funds for widows. She looked divine and unusually beautiful....
The embattled Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Mustapha Magu, regained his freedom recently after more than a week of detention...
It is a show of shame isn’t it, what is going on at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)? Established in the year 2000 to assuage...
There is no executive or administrative corruption without civil partnerships. What we often see on the surface as corruption in government agencies is deeply tap-rooted –...
Why is Covid-19 killing Minorities doctors abroad where they are better equipped than in Africa? Yet more African health workers are ready to jump into airplanes...
The race to the Year 2023 general elections in Nigeria has already begun and all eyes can see it. Ancient prejudices, myths and biases are gradually gathering momentum with ferocious swiftness; and it is as...
Since zoning of political offices has become the order of the day in Nigeria, an equitable consensus would follow that Southern Nigeria—the Igbo in particular—will produce...
Did that woman say she slapped the Honorable Minister, my Minister, Senator and former governor of my State, the Great Goodswill Akpabio? This very colorful character...
The rage, desperation, and determination which continue to bring tens of thousands of Americans to the streets in protest against racism and injustice hopefully will be...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has been asphyxiated. It is out of oxygen. It now runs on the noxious gas of corruption; its usefulness outlived...
Who will tell the President? How do we get General Muhammadu Buhari to realise that appointing his namesake and fellow Northerner, Mr. Mohammed Umar Abba, as...
One got to hear these stories in hushed behind-the-cloak tones; that if you had an issue with the EFCC, for ‘something’, it would be solved. You...
After several years of stomaching insolence from operatives of the Executive, Nigeria’s long-suffering National Assembly last week finally mustered the courage to bite, as it sank...
The Edo State upcoming gubernatorial poll on the 19th of September this year promises to be a political duel between the All Progressives Congress (APC) and...
One has just finished reading the rejoinder to the article, “Bola Tinubu, Ibrahim Magu, The Cabal And 2023”, written by Dr. Oladimeji Alo. This piece is...
No man plans to fail, people only fail to plan. The importance of planning to both an individual and nation cannot be overemphasized in order to...
A few months after the presidential inauguration in 2015, the Buhari administration launched a Jihad against corruption and applied itself to pseudo-reformist proselytising. The government caterwauled...
During the weekdays preceeding Monday 23rd March 2020, a memo from the Nigerian University Commission was relayed to all university students in their respective institutions. The...
When in 2003 during the Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘babacracy’ the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was formed genuine hope was raised in many quarters that Nigeria...
“For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it’s only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly...
In the course of my discussion with some of my colleagues on upright leadership in Nigeria, I noted that there are few morally upright leaders; but...
The Street was heedless of the obvious dull on – going activities on its peripheral tethers. It pretended to be deaf and dumb as well as...
The rising disparity in education between those in the urban and rural areas in Nigeria has shown clearly that the lockdown order by the Federal government...
A single grain of millet makes no sound upon falling, but a thousand grains make a sound. This is the paradox of the grain of millet....
Never has there been a time in history when women’s rights have been so radically glorified than now. Rights laws and groups dedicated to the female...
Social media/internet freedom is a basic human right. It is unalienable. In the pool of freedoms, it is as basic as the right to exist. Take...
‘’It has been long coming. Expect things to be done differently from now on,’’ a source in the thick of things told me regarding the ‘’arrest’’...
We have studied the position put out in the public domain by Senator Magnus Ngei Abe who represented the Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National...
The massive macro-financial shock caused by Covid-19 has continued to ravage the global economy putting all systems and nations under severe financial instability never seen in...
The wife of the Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari, cuts the image of a strong-willed First Lady quite unlike her predecessors in the ‘office’ constitutionally unsanctioned and...
How much progress has Nigeria made with its ethnic-motility politics? Since 1999, we have had presidents of different ethnic extractions – Yoruba, Fulani, and Ijaw –...
The dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressive Congress (APC) by the National Executive Committee (NEC) in the recent time seems to...
I came in full cognisance with the normality of influence peddling for jobs when I was covering the national assembly. It is a run-off-the-mill practice, which...
Recently in Accra, Ghana, an anonymous Ghanaian businessman reportedly led some armed men into the premises of the Nigerian Embassy and bulldozed some structures under construction...
In the piece, Coronavirus: The Nigerian Dream Cure, I wrote that the COVID-19, which “compelled people to stay within their nations and localities, illuminates the genius...
Screeching on television in February 2018, Remi Tinubu, wife of Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban of Borgu, let out a bellow. She said her husband was ‘’trashed’’...
