President Muhammadu Buhari can be inscrutable. Difficult to predict and divine. You cannot tell what he is thinking. And like the old general that he is,...
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In reality and in the present circumstances, Okoro is barely a citizen of Nigeria. It does not really matter that the Igbo man is autochonous and...
Killing, killing, killing in the name of Biafra! When did murder become typical of the Igbo stock? When did taking innocent lives become classic in Igbo...
In every society there are laws and institutions created to sustain order and stability. In a society like Nigeria, we uphold and practice the Federal system...
The business of politics globally involves money, filthy lucre, hubris and dirty tricks. The dirtier you are, especially in Nigeria, the more chances of scoring it...
Fellow Nigerians, This is a special day in the chequered history of our dear nation. I come before you humbly as a servant and not the...
To ‘japa’ or not to ‘japa’, that is not the question. The question is; if not Naija, where else? If it is not Naija, e no...
Agwa ka nma na eke turu. The foregoing is Igbo. It will take an effort, real one, to find the English language equivalent. So I will...
Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, the former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor and winner by landslide of the Anambra gubernatorial election of late last year, cannot be...
Has Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, lost his trenchant voice to the serpentine politics of Aso Rock? Has the fabled Lion of Ubima been emasculated and...
‘Why always Obi Cubana?’ The businessman has become a news staple. Every week Obi Cubana is in the news – but sometimes for controversial reasons. The...
For the record and for posterity, it is imperative to state that oil found in the Niger Delta region belongs to the people of the area....
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), appeared before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja...
Some of the replies under the recent tweets by Nigeria’s vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on the plans of government to further explore the Blue Economy,...
Gun shots in the night are becoming an enduring feature of rural and suburban communities in some parts of the country. Even the sound of a...
On the 18th January this year the incarcerated leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is slated to appear in the...
In the heat of the 2018 killings by criminals, I received a deluge of broadcast messages steeped in conspiracy theories of how the government was backing...
Of all the Nature’s creations, Water seems to be the simplest but the most consequential. Water consists of just 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom...
To whom do we owe allegiance – our tribe or Nigeria? The reality is some of us, if not most, define our existence and identity from...
President Muhammadu Buhari has a storied career in the military and oil and gas industry. As a military ‘old-school’ General he had seen and fought wars...
President Muhammadu Buhari marked his 79th birthday in far-away Turkey where he was attending the three-day Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit in Istanbul. Buhari needs Erdogan as the...
After much pondering and consulting, it is evident that the President of Nigeria has let go of his assent to the New Electoral Bill sent to...
One of the stories about the creation of the Earth (and there are many of them), is found in the Bible. The actor and actress are...
What does Nigeria mean to me? It means hope and promise of a greater now and future; it means resilience and courage to rise from dust...
One in five African children is engaged in child labour, according to the latest global estimates, more than in the rest of the world combined. More...
As I move across the length and breadth of Nigeria, I see things that we possess as a people, some visible, others invisible to the common...
The newly turbaned Talban of Daura, Yusuf Buhari, bears striking resemblance to his father. President Muhammadu Buhari’s look-alike son had been in the news for few...
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of Men” – Abraham Lincoln I am old enough to clearly remember thirteen Administrations from that...
In November 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari in the world leaders’ summit of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, in Glasgow, UK expressed the commitment of...
More than a year ago an unprecedented mini-revolution took place in Nigeria whose minimal success far outweighed its failure. Last year October thousands of young and...
It isn’t just mere nuisance; it has become a menace. Nigerian media houses tumble over themselves to issue awards to bumbling politicians. It seems driven by...
The Nigerian Armed Forces have had some glorious and inglorious past. Glorious history when General Olusegun Obasanjo handed over power to the late Shehu Shagari following...
Whenever the need to write a Will is discussed, people tend to excuse themselves from the discourse. This is due to the myth linking the writing...
Funds recovery scam is a type of scam whereby a scammer claims to help a victim to recover funds lost to fraudsters. The scammer’s target audience...
