It is no longer news that several states in Nigeria, especially the north-central, have for the past four years come under intense, continuous, coordinated and unabated...
With the February 2019 general electoral over, and the intrigues that surrounded the out-of-the-ordinary election of the 9th Assembly principal officers rested, we are now collectively...
By Joseph Edgar… I have tried to contain myself and that is why I did not write this piece when the story broke. For those of...
By Reuben Abati… Senator Ahmed Lawan is the incumbent Senate President of Nigeria, having won the election into that office, 79 -28, beating his rival, Senator...
“We are a nation in denial. Rising insecurity in Nigeria did not happen in a vacuum. The “indicators of conduciveness” were discernible. We compartmentalize security to...
By Gideon Arinze… The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has consistently shown Nigerians that it is incapable of playing its constitutional role of conducting elections that...
Security is everybody’s business. No individual, group, institution or organisation is nugatory in matters of security. All efforts are needed and all hands must be forged...
By Joseph Edgar… The Lagos Business School is a prestigious Business school with a strong vision complemented with a strong faculty, and that is where it...
In a pre-election piece, “APC Risks A Crushing Defeat With Oshiomhole As Chairman”, I managed to put into words that the party’s “problem begins with the...
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as part of its review of the 2019 General elections in the country is reportedly working on a proposal for...
Dear Mr. Godwin Emefiele I congratulate you on your re-appointment as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for a second term. This appointment, I...
By Joseph Edgar… You know one would have thought that with the madness that occasioned the Lagos State gubernatorial elections which saw the establishment bare their...
Frank Ovie Kokori has suffered, really suffered! Physically. Psychologically. Politically. Professionally. This diminutive labour leader has passed through “hell.” Today, he spends his life savings nursing...
By SOC Okenwa… Dear Mr President, I humbly address you as Mister President because you were one; because you deserved to be so called even post-humously....
By Adekunle Theophilius… This season of national anomie is obviously not the best of times for Nigerian workers. The words– Emasculated, Apoplexized and Pauperized are grossly...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Kidnapping for ransom with impunity and ethnic suzerainty has divided brothers and sisters into different hamlets and villages turning their Chiefs, Emir...
With the elections and inaugurations over, I believe now is the time for Ndigbo to sit down and talk to themselves. I am not talking about...
Two weeks ago, a 29-year-old Roma woman was physically attacked in the middle of the day in Kosovo, after a false accusation spread that the victim...
The recently performed ritual tagged; Democracy Day offered me the ample opportunity to ruminate over the marriage of two unwilling brides who had no say in...
That Nigeria will be great should be taken as a literary truth, not as a hyperbole or exaggeration, for that is what I am about to...
Nigerians were either in their various homes, stadia, shopping malls, amusement centres or other places of their choice, because the federal government declared Wednesday, June 12,...
“Onye Nigeria, I told you one day, there will be job adverts for positions in the federal civil service, and there will be a clause: ‘No...
On Sunday 9th of June, 2019, Berlin, the capital of Germany, was in the mood for celebration. The annual Karneval der Kulturen (Carnival of Cultures) held...
Dear MKO, I write to inform you that June 12 has evolved. “From a commemoration observed by scattered bands of devotees, members of the Abiola family,...
By Asiwaju Bola Tinubu… The power of truth to set men free from the limiting chains of falsehood and limiting superstitions is one of the most...
By Reuben Abati… It is ironic that it had to take a member of the military establishment now turned democrat, that is General, now President Muhammadu...
President Muhammadu Buhari would have been recorded as the worst Nigerian leader—ever, if he had lost the 2019 presidential election. Yet, his victory was not due...
The Buhari presidency’s animus against AIT has a four-year history. On April 26, 2015, a reporter and a cameraman of the TV station were estopped from...
Most eventful electioneering campaign season spanning between late 2017 to the conclusion of the general elections in March 2019, Nigerians witness yet another transition of power...
Ungoverned space is a new concept applied to an old problem, namely the lack of effective government presence in parts or places within its territory. Ungoverned...
Nigerians were left speechless on May 29 when after taking the oaths of office and allegiance, President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo left the...
I recall listening with real curiosity to Professor Anthony Akpoborie, a Geologist and Lecturer, speak passionately to underline his position and express the depth of his...
There is no morality in global politics. It is eat or be eaten. The nucleus of international relations, beyond the niceties of diplomacy, is interest. Substantially,...
By SOC Okenwa… Originally I had intended to entitle this piece: ‘Okorocha: Big Man, Big Dreams’ but at the last minute I decided otherwise. Not because...
By Patrick Egwu…. I grew up in the slums of Northern and South Eastern Nigeria reading books about the Biafran War (July 6, 1967 – January...
By Joseph Edgar… Some of us grew up with the adventures of Asterix and his friend Obelix. They had a third who was the Bard and...
By Benjamin Ugbana… I remember very well the day I walked into Multipurpose Hall A in Unilag to begin my registration as a fresher. Right in...
As we match towards the inauguration day, I begin to think very succinctly about the role of power or should I say the interplay of power...
By SOC Okenwa Penultimate week a Nigerian young singer, Azeez Adeshina Fashola, popularly called Naira Marley, was arraigned before a Judge of the Federal High Court...
n Nigeria, governments come and go, but each one outpaces the other in impunity, non-performance, corruption and incompetence. Before the administration of President Buhari that of...
By Gideon Arinze… On Thursday, May 23, 2019, months of scramble for the position of the Vice- Chancellor of Nigeria’s premier University, the University of Nigeria,...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… Conspiracy theories are the palm oil of Nigeria’s politics. They give taste to falsehood, tension, fear and unrest. And often, they are ignorantly...
“MOBILISING NIGERIA’S HUMAN AND NATURAL RESOURCES FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND STABILITY” Keynote Address by His Excellency Chief Olusegun Obasanjo At the 2019 Synod of the Church...
It was El Rufau who threw this out there, bringing it to the front burner. He had said in a speech that they had four years...
Today the ministers had a valedictory gathering with President Muhammadu Buhari at the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting.By now,the President and his inner caucus must be...
The diverse human experiences and artistic dimensions in Chinua Achebe’s works capture how Igbos distaste laziness and drunkenness. In the rich Igbo culture and tradition, for...
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, former Governor of Rivers State and now the Minister of Transportation in the Buhari embattled administration, is a big man full of himself,...
According to Edwin Shneidman, an American Clinical Psychologist, Suicidologist and Thanatologist (born May 13, 1918 and died on May 15, 2009), “suicide is not necessarily the...
Long time ago, when culture, tradition and social etiquette were sacred and intact, kings, especially in Igboland, were a product of intense choice of the oracles....
Rotimi Amaechi’s recent declaration that the Igbo should forget about the presidency in 2023 “For refusing to support the APC…” is both self-adulating and hypocritical, and...
