By Jonah Datti . . . On March 23, 2011, Mike Omeri was fired as the Director of Research and Strategy of the Goodluck/Sambo 2011 campaign....
By Auwal Usman . . . The arms fund scandal has the entire nation in a twist. The true beneficiaries of the scam are getting away....
By Dele Momodu . . . Nothing in the world prepares you for this kind of encounter. Not the fact that you grew up in middle-income...
Olusegun-Adeniyi. . . . That the violent confrontation in Zaria last weekend between members of the Sheikh Ibraheem Yaquob El Zakzaky Islamic Movement of Nigeria sect...
By Dan Agbese . . . I AM prepared to wager that no Nigerian would be prepared to confess, in public or the privacy of his...
By Reuben Abati . . . SO much has been said about the December 12 confrontation between the Nigerian Army and members of the Islamic Movement...
By Femi Fani-Kayode On the night of December 12, 2015 in the city of Zaria, Kaduna State, Sheikh El Zakzaky, the leader of the 10 million-strong...
By Idang Alibi . . . Almighty Father, the time has once again come when I, your most humble servant, elect to use a public forum...
By Olaide Omideyi . . . The agitation for Biafra is being given impetus by the government led by President Buhari and his ministers and advisers...
By Adeola Aderounmu . . . With the title of this essay, l have not lied. If you think it is funny or ridiculous, you have...
By Okey Ndibe I have been distressed beyond words by what has crystallized as an agitation for Biafra’s divorce from Nigeria. I am disturbed that this...
By Ishola Taiwo . . . Common sense informs us that war between nations – or within a nation between antagonistic groups – is a bad...
By Chido Onuma I am a child of Biafra. I was born on the eve of that avoidable and internecine civil war. My father fought in...
By Reuben Abati A day after the present set of Ministers took oath of office, Nigerians took to twitter to recommend books they think will be...
By Adeola Aderounmu One day my phone rang 5 minutes after l returned home from a shopping mall. I had done the weekly grocery shopping for...
By Okey Ndibe Occasionally it becomes one’s fortune to read a statement that so closely captures one’s thinking about an issue. When that happens, one is...
By Dele Momodu . . . Your Excellency, it’s been months since I wrote my desperate memo to you. I wish to thank you once more...
By Femi Fani-Kayode . . . ”Aside the 105 soldiers killed by Boko Haram, additional 34 soldiers were killed two days ago but it wasn’t in...
By Paul Wallace Michael Cohen When Muhammadu Buhari clinched victory in Nigeria’s presidential elections in March, stocks soared as investors looked to the former military ruler...
By Reuben Abati . . . “You look sleepy” “My brother, let’s just say I slept at a fuel station, looking for fuel.” “For which of...
“There is not a truth existing which I fear or wish unknown to the whole world.” – Thomas Jefferson “When it comes to the truth, the...
By Bayo Oluwasanmi . . . It is not uncommon for cowards to stage different con tactics to escape all responsibilities for their criminal acts. The...
By Kennedy Emetulu . . . As Prince Abubakar Audu, the gubernatorial candidate of the APC in the ongoing Kogi election has passed on, a legal...
By Etcetera . . . Dear President Buhari, I will like to extend an invitation to you for a tour of down town, so that you...
By Abdul Mahmud . . . For many, poverty is not only a way of life- forced not only by vicissitudes but by the way the...
By Olusegun Adeniyi . . . Sometime in 2006, (I cannot recollect the exact date or month), some selected editors were invited to a suite in...
By Okey Ndibe . . . Had ISIS not shocked the world by sponsoring a spree of deadly attacks at six locations in Paris last Friday,...
By Joe Onwukeme . . . The agitation for the state of Biafra has been a struggle that is not alien to Nigeria. Many of us...
By Ikechukwu Amaechi . . . The House of Representatives was in the news again last week, and, as many Nigerians have come to expect, for...
In from Frisky Larr . . . These days, almost every Nigerian with a computer keyboard and the ability to formulate any sentence in English (no...
By Olusegun Adeniyi… Most people, according to Robert Greene in his “48 Laws of Power”, have an overwhelming desire to believe in something. And principally for...
By Reuben Abati . . . “Have you congratulated our new Ministers?” “I am still thinking about it, actually. I don’t know whether to congratulate them...
By Isidoros Karderinis . . . It is exactly five years since Greece joined the European Support Mechanism with the close cooperation of the International Monetary...
By Okey Ndibe . . . If you’re an enlightened Nigerian but don’t know who Chuma Nwokolo is, you should be sorry. He’s one of the...
By Pius Adesanmi . . . Our brother, Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, is in the news. More precisely, he’s in the...
In October last year, my friend and the then governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Aliyu Maigatakarda Wamakko invited me to accompany him to Owerri, to attend...
By Idang Alibi . . . With the confirmation, last week, of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees which included Rotimi Amaechi and Babatunde Fashola, Nigerians, especially...
By Farouk Martins Aresa . . . Wow! So Nigeria finally succumbed after all the millions, billions and trillions disfarahan? We have been asked for several...
By OKey Ndibe Last week, I exchanged a series of messages on Facebook with a young man who accused me of exhibiting “sentiments” and “self-interest” in...
By Levi Obijiofor Senate president Bukola Saraki has become a superstar of some kind. It is not the type of stardom associated with public entertainers. Saraki...
By Jude Ndukwe Loyalty is a key ingredient in power. It is an ingredient that requires believers in a cause, institution or person to stay true...
By Ogaga Ifowodo . . . In a short period of one week, President Buhari has gone from stating that some of his soon-to-be-appointed ministers will...
By Joseph Rotimi . . . Former Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano state, while speaking at an event in Ibadan recently, took exception to the call...
By Femi Fani-Kayode . . . “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it but in the end, there it is” –...
By Michael Oluwagbemi . . . It is almost six months, half a year, since your administration assumed the mantle of office we’ve waited in bated...
By Femi Adesina . . . What do you do during a flight that lasts nine hours and six minutes? You read. You sleep. You wake,...
By Reuben Abati… Democracy does not necessarily translate into the disappearance of crises and dilemmas, (even trilemmas, quadrilemmas or more) in a country, either developed, developing...
By Femi Fani-Kayode . . . I am saddened that the former Governor of Kano state, Senator Rabiu Kwakwanso, a man whom I have always considered...
By Ulf Laessing . . . Seven months after Muhammadu Buhari was elected president on a promise to “fix” Nigeria, a policy vacuum has brought decision-making...
By Joseph Rotimi The majority of Nigerians, while assuming the citizenship of the federal republic, do not care much about issues that affect them because their...
