By Jerome-Mario Utomi…. The current climate of opinion in the country that looks upon corruption in public offices as a threat to the society calls for...
BY Joseph Edgar Let me surprise my readers today. I will support the recent decamping of this political juggernaut, Atiku Abubakar, simply as an academic exercise....
By Remi Oyeyemi… The former Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku is today one of the most interesting personalities on the Nigerian political pedestal. Interesting because as...
By SOC Okenwa… Since 1980 Robert Gabriel Mugabe was Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe was Mugabe Gabriel Robert. The grand old man of 93 years had been ruling...
Farouk Martins Aresa… If you want to tame, culture and shape humans to submit to your culture blindly, you come as explorers, then as missionaries to...
By Joseph Edgar… Now, very little things confuse me when it comes to Nigeria’s politics. I pride myself of an astonishing clarity when it comes to...
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo “African leaders do not resign, that’s cowardice and the fact that UK Prime Minister-David Cameron has just resigned confirms everything I have...
By Louis Odion The most recognizable symptoms of clinical delusion is usually an obsession with inanities. Bizarre developments in Imo lately should then be enough to...
By Reuben Abati… Since August, I have been the anchorperson of a programme on television called ThisDay Live where we discuss political matters – local and...
By Joseph Edgar… I write today with muted excitement, hoping and praying that the normal squabbles and protests that come with elections do not rear their...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… When one is favoured with longevity, says my grandfather, he must in the same vein contend with one out of the these two...
By Azu Ishiekwene… Governor Nasir El-Rufai may have been an accidental public servant by his own account, but he may well be the sort of accident...
By Collins Ughalaa… “The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me” Matt 26:11. I was a discussant with one...
By Joseph Edgar… These two have nothing to say to each other. Unfortunately they both represent our political class. A Class that violates allegiance with impunity...
By Remi Oyeyemi… It is only a matter of time before the chicken comes home to roost for the agents of religious deceit. Those who cocooned...
By Reuben Abati… “I just love this country, I won’t lie” “What have you seen again that has suddenly turned you into a gushing patriot?” “I...
Farouk Martins Aresa… How, at what age do we explain abnormal sexual behavior to children? It is awkward enough discussing s*x. When we were growing up,...
By Jude Feranmi…. Every time I am caught in introspecting about Nigeria and meditating about the solutions to the many problems that we face as a...
By Remi Oyeyemi…. I have been following the public reactions to the disclosure of mass failure by the school teachers in Kaduna State. I have watched...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… Senator Emmanuel Paulker may have played the devil’s advocate when he raised a motion for an abridgment o the tenure of the incumbent...
By Joseph Edgar… I just woke up to this proclamation. I have been in sleepy Uyo for some time now at a secondary School reunion where...
By Reuben Abati… Perhaps the biggest news this week so far, has been the attempt by the Presidency to debunk the allegation that President Muhammadu Buhari...
Jerome-Mario Utomi… The sudden threat to resume hostilities in the Niger Delta region by Niger Delta Avengers should be to all a reality to worry about....
By Farouk Martins Aresa…. Yes, this is how low it has got to in the land that used to flow with milk and honey. The Milk...
By Dele Momodu… Fellow Nigerians, I had another privilege of meeting President Muhammadu Buhari two nights ago in Abuja. I had accompanied the former President of...
By SOC Okenwa… Perhaps it is not unnecessary to declare from the very outset that this commentator is a Buharist! The fact has never been hidden...
By Reuben Abati “Have you gone to visit your brother in Ekiti?” “Who is that? I have many brothers from Ekiti state” “The Governor. Osokomole himself,...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… It is no longer news that most of our states are currently faced with serious socio-economic issues bordering on sustainability inabilities. Although this...
By Gozie Irogboli… The 57th edition of the trite annual ritual of marking what is supposed to be our day of freedom has come and gone...
By Louis Odion… On his inaugural ride in the cultural chariot as the Yoruba generalissimo, he perhaps will first have to contend with that eerie numbness...
By Joseph Edgar… The Maina debacle has finally confirmed my suspicions that there are fifth columnists working within the precincts of the Presidency, not to only...
By Gozie Irogboli… The said revocation of the concession agreement of the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex (LITFC) to Aulic Nigeria Limited was like a rude...
By Reuben Abati “I hear say our Sai Baba don return from Turkey” “Did you hope that he would stay there permanently? He went for the...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… The melodious ‘hymn’ about restructuring that resonated through our nation’s political wavelengths, playing in a very high key has gradually morphed into a...
By Barrister Folarin Sode… * 1st ERA….. INTELS (known then as NICOTES- {Nigeria Container Services} was founded in the early 80s by an Italian (from Genoa,...
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo… I am neither a psychologist nor an anthropologist, but my over sixty years of living with my people, studying them and researching...
By Ifeanyi Afuba… Suddenly, the hoax of N75 billion cash and investments handover in Anambra State in March 2014 is being resurrected. And the disinformation is...
By SOC Okenwa… Recent online reports had it that the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, had hosted with pomp and royalty the embattled South...
By Tony Ogunlowo… The race to be President of Nigeria in 2019 has already started – well, behind the scenes. Will it be the incumbent (-...
By Azu Ishiekwene… After calling out the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, twice in ten months, I gave up. The governor has the whole of Imo...
By Joseph Edgar… The bulk of this write-up if not carefully diagnosed could begin to sound like a journey into the minds of ardent conspiracy theorists....
By Bayo Oluwasanmi…. Alexis de Tocqueville never met Bukola Saraki. Had he encountered the APC Senate President or President Muhammadu Buhari or House Speaker Yakubu Dogara,...
By Reuben Abati… What is it about South African President Jacob Zuma and statues? Two statues in one month- generating controversy from the streets of Pretoria...
By Abdulrazaq Magaji… But, for the death of General Sani Abacha, the much-talked about restructuring of Nigeria would have been in top gear. In more ways...
By Joseph Edgar… Last weekend, the the Afrobeat icon was celebreated all over the country and in some parts of the world. For me, the highlight...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… In a conventional conversation, it is a general belief that the habit of sitting on the fence may not be the best decision....
By SOC Okenwa… October is a special month in the life of our nation. On the first day of the month fifty-seven years ago, Nigeria obtained...
By Aliyu U. Tilde… Populist governments throughout history are the most intolerant, brutal and repressive. Remember the communist regimes before in Eastern Europe, Russia, China and...
By Remi Oyeyemi… The above question is necessary to wake us up on and to the realities confronting us. The need to provide answers to it...
By Dele Momodu… Fellow Nigerians, let me state categorically that the great fun is about to begin in our dear beloved country. Walahi. Chief Bisi “Baba”...
