By Jude Ndukwe… The much talked about Presidential Debate scheduled to hold on Saturday, January 19, 2019, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, has come and...
By SKC Ogbonnia… The thickest cloud hanging over the candidacy of the presidential nominee of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, had...
By Reuben Abati… “Former President Obasanjo is a courageous patriot and statesman who tells truth to power when he is convinced leaders are doing wrong” –...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… The synopsis of President Buhari’s response to Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter likening his administration to the brutal Abacha regime is that the former president...
By Omoshola Deji… Debate is a vital, far-reaching and inexpensive means of campaigning and earning the voters admiration before election. It is identical to an interview...
“FELA na motivational Speaker na. When he come our TV Station, we ask am, how do you plan to make your policy work? He say God...
By Sonala Olumhense… If you are reading this, you are most likely also a reader who has this month seen in circulation a 39-year old editorial...
By Joseph Edgar… So Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice President and PDP presidential aspirant made it to America. The CJN is under trial, MC Oluomo was...
By Daniel Ezeigwe… There have often been connotations of distress and wariness in discussing issues of religion, especially in a multi-religious state like Nigeria. The polarity...
By SKC Ogbonnia… President Muhammadu Buhari’s style on the war against corruption is doing more harm than good to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The beginning...
By Reuben Abati … I once had a taste of political violence during the 2015 Presidential campaigns. In Bauchi, our convoy was stoned. In Katsina, restless...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi … As the nation pulls closer to the February 2019 general polls, like other well-meaning Nigerians, I have gained new awareness to the...
By John Chukwu… Nothing shatters and destabilises a nation like insecurity. No nation can make a meaningful and sustainable progress – politically, socially and economically –...
By Joseph Edgar… So the APC rally in Ikeja erupted in a volcanic orgy of violence. As the Governor of Lagos State spoke, people were being...
By Alon Ben-Meir…. The six Western Balkan countries —Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Albania, are “state captured” by corrupt politicians, linked with organized...
By AbdulYassar Abdulhamid… On Wednesday January 2, 2019, as reported by many national dailies, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), through a statement issued by its founder and...
Abba Dukawa… Corruption poses critical challenges to Nigeria’s economic and social development saying corruption not only diverts resources from legitimate causes beneficial to the society at...
Farouk Martins Aresa… Shehu Shagari was certainly a peace loving Democrat while in government(s). He headed some departments before he became a consensus Presidential candidate for...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… These are desperate times; a time of signs and wonders. It is “injury time” – anything can happen. Only the unwary will be...
By Joseph Edgar… It was Falz the bahd guy who did this wonderful song. He himself taking a cue from an American who had sent shock...
By John Chukwu… The New Year – 2019 – is here with us. It is a year which will mark a watershed in the political history...
By SOC Okenwa The 2019 gubernatorial election in Lagos State promises to be a very interesting battle between the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… The first opinion that is formed of a leader’s intelligence says Niccolo Machiavelli is based on the quality of men he has around...
By SOC Okenwa… The former Mobutian Zaire and now Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is touted to be the richest country in sub-saharan Africa in terms...
By John Chukwu… The disgraceful, belittling and embarrassing drama that characterised President Muhammadu Buhari’s presentation of the 2019 budget proposal, on Wednesday, at a joint session...
By Jude Ndukwe…. With the enormous goodwill and aura that accompanied President Muhammadu Buhari to Aso Rock on May 29, 2015, no one in his/her wildest...
By Fredrick Nwabufo … In the past, I used to ask myself, “What has Nigeria done for me?” But these days, there is usually guilt when...
By SKC Ogbonnia… The campaign for the 2019 election has finally taken a centre stage with the occasion of the vice-presidential debate, but the outcome leaves...
By Joseph Edgar… I watched with dismay as our ordinarily distinguished National Assembly members heckled and behaved very badly during the President’s last budget presentation to...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi … Acting on his research result carried out to unravel why leaders make bad decisions, Sydney Finkelstein, a Steven Roth Professor of management...
By Daniel Ezeigwe… Two months ago, precisely in mid October when the news and pictures of the fully-completed Chinese wonder bridge hit the online media, it...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… There is a growing rift between Yoruba and Igbo in Lagos. It will be sheer folly to dismiss the obvious. But the...
By SOC Okenwa In the history of the Nigerian presidency (post-June 12 from 1999) no First Lady had demonstrated rare courageous patriotic determination like the current...
By Joseph Edgar… The debate lived up to its huge billings. It pitted Yemi Osinbajo and Peter Obi, two very intelligent personalities with some other not...
By Jude Ndukwe… Just like a majority of Nigerians who have come to see the APC-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari for what it is, a...
By John Chukwu… Making promises of what one intends to do if elected into an office is a ritual politicians, universally, do perform. The promises, which...
By SOC Okenwa…. In the process of knocking this piece into shape a couple of captions competed for attention as I sought to settle for the...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… …The good news is; we have the overwhelming support of youth votes….The bad news is; the youth never bothers to vote–Anonymous As the...
By Churchill Okonkwo… On the weekend that Fr. Mbaka was shamelessly trying to extort money by harassing and blackmailing Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, you, Bishop...
By Joseph Edgar… Wale Oluwo is someone I have known all of my life. He is different and bold. He sees life and its vicissitudes totally...
By Daniel Ezeigwe The Nigerian public was in the early hours of Monday thrown into a mixed frenzy. Not that occasions of mass excitement is something...
By Daniel Ezeigwe …. Few months ago when the campaign for the sanitization of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS; a designated unit of the Nigeria Police...
By Daniel Ezeigwe … It is as worrisome as it is sad how the Nigeria’s pre-electoral hysterics of 2015 have been consciously or subconsciously forgotten. An...
This has always been the weapon his opponents have decided to use against his candidacy. Goading him with his inability to enter the US owing to...
By SOC Okenwa Former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has finally written and released the much-expected book on his stewardship and other presidential experiences. Having left power...
By John Chukwu… After the National Executive Committee of the Academic Staff Union of Universities – ASUU – met on 4th November; at Federal University of...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… The reason the rich and powerful Africans do not want their bodies cremated after dying in those prestigious hospitals abroad is to...
By Gozie Irogboli… Observers are watching with keen interest the unfolding scenario in the Nigerian political landscape as the campaign for the 2019 general election officially...
By Ifeanyi Afuba… The 2019 presidential election would be the third presidential poll the All Progressives Grand Alliance is contesting since the party’s registration in 2002...
By Louis Odion… Oby Ezekwesili caused quite a stir on Sunday on Abuja streets. Even as the ruling APC and the main opposition PDP continued to...
