By Immanuel James…. With all his foibles, Mohammadu Buhari deserves commendation for his honesty.. The man’s honest ad-libbing, in words and actions, contradicts the script of...
Churches and Mosques played their roles in the indoctrination of Africans towards Western and Arab religious values. Though they established early modern schools, hospitals where outcasts...
At the inception of the Buhari-led government, economic indices were somewhat stable. Inflation was single digit, fuel price was below the N100 mark, consumer price index...
By Benjamin Ugbana …. After Super Eagles got the entire country lit with great happiness by securing Nigeria’s qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup with...
By Reuben Abati The current NNPC debacle is probably the most embarrassing, even if mercifully, eye-opening crisis in the history of that nationally strategic institution since...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… The sleepy political landscape of Delta State has very recently become a beehive of activities. This development, however, should not be a surprise...
By SOC Okenwa… Last Sunday, Nigeria marked 57 years as an ‘independent’ nation. Fifty-seven years of flag independence from the Great Britain. On October 1, 1960,...
By Tony Ogunlowo… Again another psychotic madman strikes killing over 50 people and injuring more than 500 in the Land of the Free and Home of...
By Joseph Edgar… We are in a season of memos. First, it was El-Rufai’s memo and now it is the explosive memo written by the Minister...
By Reuben Abati… A Biafra-like agitation for independence has been unfolding in neighbouring Republic of Cameroon since November 2016. The people of Northern and Southern Cameroons...
By Abayomi Bamidele Adisa… Nigeria, you are now 57years. Your birthday brings a mixture of excitement and pains to my heart. You have been crawling for...
By Chidi Amuta… Mr. Aliko Dangote needs no chieftaincy titles. He has so far shown no liking for the fancy fiendish prefixes that his countrymen often...
The principle of the right to self-determination gained currency during the of the World War II, when it was included in the Atlantic Charter, signed on...
— By Charles Ogbu Listening to president Muhammadu Buhari’s independence day broadcast, I was left wondering if, in addition to Hausa/fulani Muslim supremacy, hypocrisy has equally...
By Joseph Edgar…. Today, October 1, Nigeria will go through the usual ritual of an Independence Day ceremony. The President will come out and in his...
By Prince Singa Edward Zhattau… As ordinary Nigerians commemorated President Muhammadu Buhari’s return with wild jubilations from his seemingly endless London medical vacation, the corrupt political...
By Farooq Kperogi Dissent and criticism are not only core structural components of democracy, they, in fact, mark the difference between autocracy and democracy. But it’s...
By Dele Momodu…. Fellow Nigerians, let me say exciting times are here again. You may ask what is so exciting about this period with our myriad...
By Pius Adesanmi… “It is in the interest of Lagos and Nigeria that the federal government open up and expand the capacities of other ports in...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… In one of the most celebrated media related trials in the United States Of America(USA), the trial Judge, Justice Lewis Powell, of the...
By SOC Okenwa… The reckless militarization of the south-east and south-south geo-political zones of Nigeria never started today nor yesterday. The federal government has been accused...
By Reuben Abati… Dear Nnamdi Kanu, We have never met. I only know you by reputation and I have had cause in the last year to...
By Abdulrazaq Magaji… Dear Nnamdi, Ndeewo! It wasn’t much of a surprise to some of us that you simply disappeared at a time you should be...
By Louis Odion… True to prophecy, the mere shadow of armoured tanks approaching River Niger bridge last week was enough to dismantle the rather imposing castle...
By Ifeanyi Afuba… In spite of his anger, real or feigned, my friend Mr Valentine Obienyem knows that he can neither privatise nor ban the history...
By Tony Ogunlowo… A few days ago a rather chilling and disturbing video emerged, online, of a young teenage girl cradling a recently decapitated human head....
By Gozie Irogboli On the 11th of September 2017, the Nigerian Army began a military manoeuvre codenamed Operation Python Dance 2 in South East Nigeria ostensibly...
By Reuben Abati… Operation code-names have been an important part of military operations since the Germans first applied them in World War 1 but it may...
By Emmanuel James Ibe As soon as possible, issue an intelligent public relations statement stating the position of IPOB on events so far. Address bereaved families....
By Pius Adesanmi… There are two research questions I have to start asking Nigerians who were at least 40-years-old between 1960 and 1970: what was your...
The quest for the actualization of Biafra is a shame on the leaders of Ndigbo. It is a shame foretold and its inevitability comes as no...
By Bayo Oluwasanmi… These are heady days for Yoruba unity. The Yoruba Summit held last week in Ibadan represents a milestone in the way forward to...
By Reuben Abati…. Mama Taraba is Senator Aisha Alhassan, the current Minister of Women Affairs in the Muhammadu Buhari cabinet, and arguably the most influential female...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn...
By Charles Ogbu… Sunday’s clash between men of the Nigerian army and members of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) in Afara-ukwu, the hometown of the...
By Joseph Edgar… I need to be very clear with my position this today as I do not want any kind of misunderstanding as to where...
By Reno Omokri…. It is no longer news that President Muhammadu Buhari’s minister for women affairs, Aisha Alhassan has publicly ditched him and hitched unto the...
By Jude Ndukwu… When you think you have seen it all and nothing from the presidency could surprise you any longer, then you are hit with...
By Joseph Edgar… The report hit us like thunder. They said she, Aisha Alhassan (Mama Taraba), had declared support for her godfather, the former Vice...
By Charles Ogbu. Greetings, your Excellencies -the governors of the land of the Rising Sun. It is with a heart burdened with sorrow that I write...
By Joseph Edgar… The last time I watched the Super Eagles play was shamefully during the era of the Dutch wizard, Clemens westerhof. That, you will...
By Reuben Abati… Religion was not quite a major divisive issue in the community in which we lived in the Old Cross River State in my...
By Alex Otti… “As for you, be fruitful and multiply; populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it” Genesis 9:7(AMP). A good friend of mine called...
By Fidel Albert… California is the 6th largest economy in the world. It’s economy is larger than that of France or Brazil. The little problem is...
By SOC Okenwa… About a month ago the Ozubulu community in Anambra state woke up to the horrendous news of terrorists invading St. Philips Catholic Church...
By Akintokunbo Adejumo… “Nigerian leaders on Friday (28 February 2014) called on Nigerians to work harder towards ensuring the country’s unity”, with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo averring...
By Joseph Edgar… The military has just announced that it has or, should I say, will start monitoring social media in its attempt at stamping out...
By Abiiodun Komolafe Festus Adedayo’s article entitled ‘WAEC Results: Of Awo’s Mud Houses and Governor’s Model Greed’ (Sunday Tribune, August 20, 2017) refers. Let me start...
By Reuben Abati… I have followed with keen interest the controversy over the announcement of cut-off marks for Nigeria’s admission processes for the 2017/2018 session, with...
By Joseph Edgar… The Federal Government has finally asked the court to revoke the bail conditions given to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Biafra secessionist movement....
