By Joe Igbokwe…A good friend of mine Ugo Chikezie wrote that people who do critical thinking will tell you that the Nigeria we are living in...
By Prince Charles Dickson…So, being the religious country that we are, I sat in the sitting, and asked my wife…Was Fela born again, what inspired his...
By Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu…Two things to learn from the Ben Bruce loan saga: One is that motivational oratory is often half the truth. You’d think that...
By Prince Charles Dickson….Okay, I am from Plateau state, and the real issue aside many little squabbles in the 2015 General Elections was that we were...
By Jude Ndukwe…President Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate saga is getting messier by the day. Although a majority of his supporters who are now blaming themselves for imposing...
By Paul E. Michael… The ungodly activities of Kidnappers in Delta State, mostly in the Isoko axis, have become a major security concern to dwellers in...
By Prince Charles Dickson… Two events occurred over the last one-week, that both sobered me, and got me reflecting about Nigeria. I must confess I think...
By Levi Obijiofor…The departure of President Muhammadu Buhari to London on official holiday to treat an ear infection has stirred debate in Nigeria about the appropriateness...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo… With clouded mind and distorted vision, you fabricate tales of absurdity in the name of braveness. You combine narratives of love and...
By Enite Benjamin . . . I must say, Nigerians are really ‘busy bodies’. I have made it a point of duty to always take a...
By Kennedy Emetulu… Okay, I strongly supported President Goodluck Jonathan in the last election, even though I’m not a PDP member and I have condemned and...
Farouk Martins Aresa… Niger Delta Avengers are bombing their own lives and that of next generations out of existence. If it was a foreign power, oil...
Jideofor Adibe… The recent news that President Buhari has taken ill and travelled to England to treat a discomforting left ear infection called Meniere Disease has...
By Jude Ndukwe… When news broke out late last week that President Muhammadu Buhari had allegedly placed travel bans on two governors of the opposition party,...
By Kennedy Emetulu… It seems true that President Muhammadu Buhari is not visiting Ogoniland for that much-publicised flag-off of the implementation of the UNEP Report on...
By Olalekan Waheed Adigun… What started as a big joke suddenly became a reality. In a desperate bid to stop the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari...
By Levi Obijiofor… This past weekend has been one of celebrations — celebrations of a government that promised so much but found reasons to explain why...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo My people say that; when we see an old woman stop her dance to point again and again in the same...
By Reno Omokri… On Friday, May 20th, 2016, Dr. Yemi Kale, the Statistician General of the Federation and head of the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS),...
By Ephraim Adiele… Dear Aisha, Good Day Ma. How are you? And how is life as the First Lady, sorry Wife of The President (your...
By Paul E. Michael…. Prior to the May 28, 2015, presidential election, the All Progressive Congress, APC, presented before Nigerians the “Change” ideology, which promised a...
By Pius Adesanmi… Femi Adesina opens his latest interview with Punch Newspaper with these words: “It is mendacious to say that in the last one year,...
By Ogaga Ifowodo… A new champion of the Niger Delta has hatched out of its polluted creeks. It is armed to the teeth with assault rifles,...
By Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba… There ought not to be any debate about the pollution in the four sister cities above or over their ranking. The places...
By Leonard Karshima Shilgba… There has been a rash of proposals to resolve the menace of cattle herders’ invasion of Nigerian farmlands, who are killing unarmed...
By Joseph Rotimi…. It is a sad tale of irresponsibility that in this century and after the work of Mary Slessor more than a century ago,...
By Abubakar D. Sani… For the following reasons, I believe that no attempt at ending the costly, unsustainable fuel subsidy programme in Nigeria will succeed unless...
By Abu Najakkudanbello… On February 3 this year, a shadowy group, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), announced its formation with the sole aim of “crippling (the...
By Hakeem Babalola… They now say I am fantastically corrupt. Is this true or not? Fantastically corrupt! I know I am corrupt but am I fantastically...
Just in case there are still some readers out there who don’t know what the above headline means, it is about the unbelievable achievement of Leicester...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… There is one Oba in Nigeria that most of the people have in common, that is Omo N’Oba of Benin. Most ethnic...
By Prince Charles Dickson… We grab a dog with the hands and it escapes; thereafter we beckon it with two fingers. (If both hands cannot detain...
By Chukwuemeka Ezeife… The President does not seem to have some conscience by doing certain things against some people. He does it without thinking back as...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo… In one of his famous proverbs, Chinua Achebe wrote that, “A madman may sometimes speak a true word, but you watch him,...
By Yomi Odunuga…No, some murderous, cold-blooded ‘herdsmen’ presumably from the bottomless pit of hell committed the most heinous form of murder in far-away Nimbo in Uzo-Uwani...
Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba…There is only one thing that could be labelled as the truth in the killings of Enugu residents and that is that some people...
By Jude Ndukwe …Still in a mourning mood over the mindless massacre at Enugu by suspected Fulani herdsmen, the nation’s heavy heart was further daggered by...
By Tony Ogunlowo . . . There are those out there who want ex- President Goodluck Jonathan put on trial for his alleged mismanagement of the...
In the days leading to the nomination of retired General Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), many Nigerians had a...
By Bamikole Omishore . . . 1. “I did not do any deal with the PDP. I did not have to because even before the PDP...
By Joseph Rotimi…A couple of months ago the commander in chief of the Nigerian armed forces announced gleefully that Boko Haram had been defeated “technically” and...
By Okey Ndibe…Last Wednesday, I got a phone call from a reporter at one of Italy’s major newspapers, la Repubblica. It was the second anniversary of...
By Pius Adesanmi…And it came to pass that on the fiftieth year of the sufferings and tribulations of the people of Sodom, the Lord took pity...
By Adeola Aderounmu…In Nigeria criminals in government do not resign even when they are discovered. A bigger worry is how these criminals have found their ways...
By Levi Obijiofor…It is astonishing to imagine that two years have elapsed since more than 230 helpless female secondary school students were abducted from their college...
By Babatunde Raji Fashola…In making this public intervention, I seek to highlight the benefit of global relationships and cooperation in a world that is changing daily...
By Dele Momodu…Your Excellency, I’m convinced the time has come to write you this letter despite the fact that I have some measure of access to...
By Joe Igbokwe…The former Minister of Finance under President Jonathan has been in the news for sometimes now, making interventions in the body polity with...
By Joe Igbokwe…Given the overwhelming weight of evidence against Saraki and the excess baggage of cartons of corruption dating back to his days at Societte General...
By Taju Tijani…Nigerian politicians are becoming medieval warring kings, and like wild cats in the wild, they settle prehensile political feuds with chops, karate, kicks, kung-fu...