By Jude Ndukwe The recent massacre of our heroic soldiers by Boko Haram at Metele in Borno State will forever remain a disturbing phenomenon in the...
By Reuben Abati… “Iya Kabiru must be the luckiest woman in Nigeria today” “Who is that? I don’t know anybody so-called” “You don’t know Iya...
By Tony Ogunlowo… The 2019 Nigerian Presidential elections are just around the corner and the electorate are going to be faced with the age-old problem of...
By Jerome Mario Utomi… Acting on the strength of an invitation forwarded to me by the Nzuko Umunna/Aka-Ikenga and Core Federalists Group, the organizers of a...
By SOC Okenwa.. Last week Sunday marked the official commencement of electoral hostilities toward the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. Political parties (including the ruling APC...
By Lanre Oyegbola… The recently launched roadmap of the President Muhammadu Buhari campaign themed NEXT LEVEL with a rider “we are going higher” has come under...
By Ifeanyi Afuba… Heaven only knows what figment of the imagination the bumbling legislators at Awka will conjure next to keep their fantasy impeachment of the...
By Gozie Irogboli… Nigeria is in an electoral season and once again the atmosphere is fired up with uncertainties. In contrast with what is obtainable in...
By Reuben Abati… “There was no bitterness in him after he left power. He did not look back. He did not look down. Instead he looked...
By Joseph Edgar… Lagos needs to be saved. This is a position that is being held by all across the spectrum, even held by those who...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Did Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar just preach floating Naira and devaluation again? Just when one is staying away from the major old...
By SKC Ogbonnia…. The Igbo nation worldwide should disregard a purported endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, by...
By Ben Alon-Meir… The retaking of the House by the Democrats will soon allow them to exercise checks and balances and stop the Republicans from going...
By Chima Christian and Oseloka H. Obaze… Money politics and campaign finance remain topical, disconcerting and divisive issues in Nigeria. The challenges they pose are further...
By Reuben Abati … A week ago, I stumbled on an article titled “Africa and the burden of Leadership” (The Guardian, Nov. 7), written by Aigboje...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… When Niccolo Machiavelli first came up with the idea that cruelty could be rightly or wrongly employed in governing a country, he may...
By Joseph Edgar… That the Cahairman of the APC is presently flying through turbulence is no longer news. He is at the centre of controversies arising...
By SOC Okenwa Some days ago many discerning Nigerians, at home and abroad, were stupefied when breaking news online had it that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the...
By Farouk Martins Aresa…. The reason the present looks bleak is the value Africans placed on the culture that are emulated and exchanged for gold, blood...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… Adams Oshiomhole is like an over-indulged child who cries and throw tantrums to get a piece of candy. And when he gets it,...
By Alon Ben-Meir… When I woke up yesterday morning, I was shocked yet once again to read about Wednesday’s mass killing of 12 people during “college...
By Tony Ogunlowo…. On the 19th of February this year more than a hundred girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Science and Technology College, Dapchi...
By Reuben Abati… Many years ago, I was in Abuja to attend an international workshop on one of those human development issues that used to engage...
Jude Ndukwe… So much has been said about the growing fractious relationship between the military and the civil society. Before now, our military especially the army,...
By SOC Okenwa… The incarcerated billionaire kidnapping kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, is still standing trial in an Ikeja High Court in Lagos where...
By Funmilola Ajala… Arguably Nigeria’s most flamboyant First Lady, Maryam Babangida’s death in Los Angeles, United States, in December 2009, jolted many; though her husband had...
By Reuben Abati… Anthony Anenih, the political leader, chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party who has died aged 85, was one of the most important...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… Risk viewed conventionally is an observable reality that people sprint away from as it is both covertly and overtly considered an unpleasant situation....
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Dictators are easy to spot by their intolerance for journalists. Canada had raised concern about Saudi Crown Prince, only to retaliate. So,...
By Agada Ikechukwu…. Nigeria is a giant nation because greatness is encoded in her DNA. Sometimes her leadership betrays her as a euphemism for movie theatre....
By Gozie Irogboli…. The Nigerian political landscape has many bizarre features and ugly peculiarities. In more civilized climes politics and leadership are about group and national...
By SOC Okenwa…. The immediate past executive Governor of Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose, handed himself over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last...
By Joseph Edgar… You know I got to watch the great Abami Eda only once in my life. It was at the famous University of Ibadan...
By SKC Ogbonnia…. The excitement flowing behind the choice of Peter Obi as the running mate to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential nominee of the Peoples’ Democratic...
By Reuben Abati… Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement suddenly resurfaced in Jerusalem, Israel at the Wailing Wall, after his...
By Reuben Abati … Chief John Odigie Oyegun, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) must be having a good laugh wherever he is....
By Jerome-Mario Utomi…. ‘’Ifa kin puro, ifa kin se eke’’ (literarily translated as Ifa oracle neither lie, nor gossip) is a Yoruba mythology that has become...
By Reuben Abati … I spent the better part of last Tuesday, October 16, focusing on developments in Ekiti State. It was the day of John...
By Ifeanyi Afuba… Even before the commencement of campaigns, the prospect of an APGA presidency after the 2019 elections is already sending shivers in some political...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… I just watched a video of “Nnamdi Kanu in Israel”. And truly, it was him. In the video, he stands before the Wailing...
By SOC Okenwa… Kano is a city-state up north just like Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Ekiti etc. A cosmopolitan city just like Lagos in the south-west the...
By Joseph Edgar… So he came out of the gleaming black SUV, T-shirt boldly screaming the now immortal words – EFCC, I AM HERE. And, this...
I maintain that regardless of the political, strategic, demographic, and regional vicissitudes, the two-state option remains the only viably sustainable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the...
By Reuben Abati… About this period, four years ago to be precise I had gone to visit a notable politician and a member of the Peoples...
By Prince Singa Edward Zhattau…. Following the validation of the Presidential Executive Order ( PEO) 6 by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the President...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… To understand more fully, the current wave of political re-alignments in the country and be able to make objective projections, it is important...
By SOC Okenwa… The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) organized its presidential primary in the garden city of Port Harcourt penultimate weekend. More than a dozen...
By Reuben Abati… Shortly after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar became the flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on October 6, party members and other...
By Agada Ikechukwu… It was an American legislator John Milson, who said “ Every cloud has a silver lining”. But some clouds can be dark that...
By Fredrick Nwabufo…. That the Igbo are in a political freeze is largely due to their own “sleight of hand”; that they are in disarray is...
