Tunde Onakoya, the 29-year-old Nigerian Chess Master who has just broken the World Record for the longest chess marathon is most appropriately an embodiment of the...
During his first edition of the Meet Your Governor radio show in February, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO), governor of Ekiti State, said he has heard some...
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THE intention may have been noble when the former President, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo sowed the seed of the Lagos – Calabar Coastal Highway in 2006. For...
On Saturday, April 13, a group of 18 masked persons dressed in army camouflage, armed with rifles, charms and Oodua Nation flags attempted to take over...
IT’S now crystal clear that the governance strategy of the regime of the president, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is to unsettle Nigerians, distract them, pauperize them,...
Philip Shaibu, the Edo state politician who was Deputy Governor in that state until yesterday afternoon, would seem to have failed woefully to learn certain basic...
I sympathize with Mohammed Bello Adoke, referred to above simply as Citizen Adoke. Not necessarily because I know him personally, he and I, having served this...
THREE things happened in the past week that signpost the looming frosty relationship between the press and the regime of Nigeria’s President, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu....
On March 7, 2024, we all woke up to the bewildering news that students of LEA Primary School and Government Secondary School, and at least one...
Will it not be preposterous to expect the security agencies, especially the armed forces, not to reflect the character of the larger Nigerian society? Members of...
It was the first Nigerian Army Chief of Staff and former military governor of the defunct Northern Region, late General Hassan Usman Katsina (Ciroman Katsina), that...
The news report in the Nigerian Tribune of Monday, March 18, 2024, titled “PDP, APC Stalwarts Mull Mega Party’ caught my attention and left me thinking...
The casualties are not only those who are dead/They are well out of it/The casualties are not only those who are dead/Though they await burial by...
LIKE his predecessor Nigeria’s President, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is not enamoured with visiting states in the country in a scheduled and organized manner. Also like...
The unthinkable happened on 7/10, similar to the earth-shaking event of 9/11: the world tilted dangerously, leaving a permanent dent in the world’s civilization. To achieve...
NIGERIA is in deep trouble. This is stating the obvious. The situation has gone beyond the country being in a state of anomie which means ‘a...
Disparity of roles between ecclesiastics and politicians are generally expected to translate to differences in values, lifestyles and creeds, but this pattern has been disrupted and...
It is said that, ‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.’ Hunger as we all know, is a problem...
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress [APC] said ahead of last years election that he will shrink the nationa economy, extort Nigerians through taxation...
“Hunger is the cry of a god and two gods do the humans worship – the head and the stomach …We know the body will survive...
INSTABILITY is the only thing that is stable about today’s Nigeria. And that should be concerning. But nothing seriously indicates that we are perturbed. It’s still...
I have thought long and hard about just the right solution to the downward spiral of the Naira, and confidently believe I have come up with...
EVEN Jezebel at the height of her imperial terrorism could not have visited such unspeakable evil on a child-male or female-as happened in Anambra state recently....
Big, loud and hearty congratulations to the people and government of the Republic of Ivory Coast for hosting and organizing what has been considered one of...
If President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led Federal Government is desirous of ending gas flaring in the country, then, the administration should consider as urgent, taking both...
It is not just the menace of insecurity in the land that has been in the news in Nigeria, the economy too, and indeed the latter...
The biggest problem Nigeria faces at the moment beyond the parlous state of the economy is the general insecurity in the land and it is about...
AWOL! Nigeria’s President, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is away again on a private visit abroad. This is the third such private trip by Tinubu since he...
Critics of globalism and capitalism have continually raised questions about the relevance of the World Economic Forum (WEF) established by Professor Klaus Schwab in 1971 originally...
‘EBURU ozu onye ozo, odika ebu osisi kporo nku’ is a common saying in my Igbo nation part of Nigeria. I cannot readily remember the English...
VICTIMHOOD is attractive if you are in love with coveting and lapping up sympathy. But ultimately sympathy in our clime and at a time the state...
THE regime of this President, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, may have been programmed to fail from the onset. Or even before its beginning. Like the affliction,...
One of the most concerning subjects in Nigeria today is the renewed call for the liberalization of access to the ownership of guns, in the face...
It is a new year, a new month, a new day, and fittingly, this is the right moment to look backwards and to the future. One...
A happy new year wish will be in order though it is certainly obvious this will be a thoroughly unhappy and extremely troubling year for a...
ALMOST every ruler in Nigeria since 1999 had toyed with whatever can be done to, at best, nibble at the edges of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution...
With the COP28 ended barely few days ago the specters are high. At the core of it is the clean revolution and transitioning. The call for...
It is no longer news that the debate on climate change is among the most presently discussed topics on the earth’s surface. Making this perceived climate...
Each passing day brings to mind the fact that it is not politics, but politicians who ply the trade with neither ideologies nor people-interest reputation, are...
On a fateful Friday, 28th of July 2023, a heavy blanket of sorrow enveloped the entire population of Eket Council in Akwa Ibom State. A burial...
DAYS after Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu was declared winner of the majority of the ballots cast in Rivers state in the February 25 presidential election, an...
THE government can, and should be, a force for good. But it has not always been. Whenever it is, the people rejoice and there is societal...
NIGERIANS used to be patient with their leaders until they stopped being patient with them. They used to be enamoured with those in authority until somehow...
NIGERIA is in the intensive care unit and its caregivers appear not to be perturbed. No. They are actually engaged but not in attending to a...
DEPENDING on who you ask,between threeand four million Nigerians accounted for internally displaced persons in this country as at the end of 2022. There are conflicts...
THE Roman Catholic church in Nigeria has, probably,done more in the last 24 years in speaking truth to power publicly than any other organized major religion....
On Thursday, October 26, the Supreme Court of Nigeria gave its judgment in the appeals by Waziri Atiku Abubakar and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and...
Writing this piece, I am aware that perhaps the biggest lessons and examples in leadership and management in the world today, trapped as it is in...
Fifty-three years after, the scenes and happenings in parts of the Igbo nation strike uncanny resemblance to the end days of the former Republic of Biafra....
ALHAJI Bola Ahmed [or Adekunle] Tinubu’splot to become Nigeria’s president was not incubated only over the last 24years as appears to be the refrain in recent...
