According to Black’s law Dictionary, 9th edition, the word penal is defined as “of, or relating to, or being a penalty or punishment, especially for a...
Public office holders are always under the flashy lights of journalists’ cameras and microphones, not only in Nigeria but the world over. Their words are well...
There is nothing as fatal as a blow from a “consanguineal fist”. A cut from a “sibling” hurts deeper than that from a stranger. I have...
By Chima Christian and Oseloka H. Obaze… Nigeria’s economy is stressed. Several performance indicators and ratings point to its parlous inclination. But no performance indicator is...
How did the Continent that produced the world’s richest man ever, Mansa Kankan Musa and the richest woman ever, Queen of Sheba’s children become the poorest...
The mess bedeviling the Kano Emirate Council is President Muhammadu Buhari’s baby. It stinks like a skunk, but he ought to own it. The crisis has...
By SOC Okenwa… Dear Miss Leah Sharibu, Ordinarily I should be sending you a happy sixteenth birthday wish but that should not be the case...
It is a known fact that Nigeria is peopled with highly ‘religious’ adherents, who somewhat become bigotry and fanatical; marked by excessive enthusiasm and intense devotion....
By Tony Ogunlowo… With the rest of the world beginning to turn its back on petroleum products in favour of sustainable renewable energy sources the demand...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… A man, with bloodied “babariga” and with head cocked down, perched emotionlessly in the driver’s seat of a Land Cruiser jeep at Kurmin...
It is no longer news that media practitioners in Nigeria recently joined their colleagues the world over to celebrate the annual world Press freedom day. However,...
I would never had believed if I was told that I would be writing an opinion piece in defense of the tradional stools of our land....
If you are an Emir, Obi, Oba, and Serial Monogamist or rich enough to acquire more than two wives, you can fool yourself all you want...
Given the studied humility with which Nigerians accepted the outcome of the just concluded 2019 general elections in the country, it will not be an overstatement...
That the Nigerian Police Force is about the worst national police formation in the world is no longer news. What is perhaps news is that they...
Unpleasant events in Nigeria, especially the events surrounding the civil war and events in the post civil war Nigeria, had forced many Nigerians, especially those from...
The seminal mandatory traditional reverence that are usually accorded our traditional rulers have come under egregious exploitation in recent months by the incumbent Ooni of Ife,...
No vehicle can run indefinitely without a refuel, just as no tree can hope to remain sturdy without water and sunshine. without a doubt, the events...
Dear Police Inspector-General Mohammed Adamu, You cannot tackle the atrophic security threat assailing the country by pandering to the whims of the antagonists. Of course, being...
Prince Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was in his best opposition element, last weekend, when he addressed a world...
“They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind” Hosea 8:7. Though probably first used as a warning to the people of Israel by Prophet Hosea,...
The 2019 presidential election, in which Muhammadu Buhari was declared winner, has continued to generate tension. The main opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has since filed a...
By Prince Singa Edward Zhattau… “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”- George Orwell As...
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age...
How can African Christians conquer a vanishing population of Churchgoers in the Western or Eastern world? Go to any church in Europe and North America, Christian...
By SOC Okenwa… In every democracy around the world worth its name the people are the constitutional repository of sovereignty. Power derives its legitimacy from the...
By Abiodun KOMOLAFE… The vexed issue of restructuring was on the front burner at the just concluded national retreat held by Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) in Ekiti State. ...
It is said: “It is better to give than to receive.” But I think, some giving(s) do not come from the quarters of charity, sacrifice, wisdom...
As is often the case in Nigeria, each week has its own peculiar national issue around which the public discourse for the week is formed. And,...
So, this is what most people around me do not want to do. They say that Chief Obafemi Awolowo is so revered that it would do...
In our culture and tradition in Yoruba land, we worship our Obas. We revere them. We regard them. We honour them. We venerate them. We deify...
To: His Excellency, The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari, & Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the...
I believe we all have that one family member who thinks that he or she has the right to intrude into your schedule and order you...
Mrs Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde is a combination of brain and beauty. In the vibrant Nigerian entertainment industry she has, over time, demonstrated her natural talent making money...
We have always pledged to Nigeria’s unity. But we have not gone beyond this ritual and work at it. How can we assert, “Nigeria’s unity is...
On September 21, 2011, the hearing room of the Code of Conduct Tribunal was overflowing with lawyers, journalists and spectators. A “big masquerade” was expected to...
Diversity and dynamic opposition are twin catalysts for effective democratic leadership. This explains why Nigeria owes a debt of gratitude to patriots, most notably, Ogbonnaya Onu,...
The Mada people of central Nigeria are predominantly domiciled in Nasarawa State, with Akwanga as their seat of power, housing the paramount ruler. They are generally...
Following submissions made by the legal team of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Election Tribunal that the presidential candidate...
I remember with nostalgia how participants at a focused group discussion held recently in Lagos, bemoaned infestation of our nation by social problems perpetrated consciously and...
This is what the APC’s defense team wants us to believe. In submitting their defense at the ongoing Presidential Elections Tribunal, they are reported to have...
By SOC Okenwa… Penultimate weekend the east-central African nation of Rwanda marked 25th anniversary of the very worst man-made cataclysmic event in her national history –...
Before 1914, the geographical space called Nigeria existed in bifurcation – the northern and southern protectorates. And before the British savaged and carved out the area...
How do we break the increasing number of African population in poverty with our Ethnic political system? Africans always model political system to western countries that...
In Nigeria, it has become a norm to visit seers or fortune tellers or prophets or some sorts of spiritualists to foreknow distant events and happenings....
By Jude Ndukwe…. Barely 4 weeks after the 2019 general elections for which winners are yet to be sworn in and for which dusts in several...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… There are byzantine vibrations about the Nigerian. He is like a banshee wailing against the failings of power when his belly is empty;...
By SOC Okenwa…. The 2019 general elections in Nigeria had come and gone but stories (the good, the bad and the ugly) abound across the federation....
By Ikedi Ohakim… “Your Excellency, your predecessor, Chief Achike Udenwa, granted an interview to a national daily where he made scathing remarks on you. I quote:...
By Joseph Edgar… This is the question that should be on the President’s mind as he begins the process of building his cabinet for his second...
