Christianity is a big business in Nigeria yet it is in big trouble. In a morally-corrupt clime where evil seems to have triumphed over good those...
There is more to Lai than meets the eye. He is more controversial than he is understood. And he has chalked up quite a reputation for...
The popular Yoruba rights activist Chief Sunday Adisa Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, has suddenly become a superstar, a celebrity, for his audacious utterances and...
This is one opinion I am constrained to write about. We have been regaled by various news reports that my friend and egbon would be making...
This question has become necessary following the recent report of arrest and imprisonment of a young Christian barber for blasphemy in Kano state in Northern Nigeria....
Days before the dawn of Yuletide last year the fugitive leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had launched the Eastern...
It takes just a moment of indignation to destroy; to cast down and cast out. It is easier to destroy than to build. And what is...
Most of us agree that the unity of Nigeria is held by a tenuous thread, and that by the hands of the current administration old scars...
Many Nigerians were understandably shocked, surprised, if not alarmed last week, when they suddenly heard the news that the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari had finally...
Some days ago President Muhammadu Buhari relieved the national security Service Chiefs of their appointments. Reports online had it that they had resigned and that the...
It emerged on January 26 that a higher-up in the Buhari regime has instructed Nigeria’s major telecommunications companies—MTN, Glo, Airtel, 9mobile, etc.— to block access to...
The realization of a more critical thinking African society must start in the schools and with the schools because schools are spaces where values, skills, and...
You cannot tango with hyenas and not get devoured. Hyenas are vicious; blundering yet pernicious, and jocular yet devious. Hyenas do not live by the rules...
The pure definition of a cowardly people is the ability to run round in circles instead of facing a major problem. So, they will embark on...
The Executive Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, had stirred the hornet’s nest penultimate week when he issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Fulanis living as...
In the past week, in the South Western part of Nigeria, we have been treated to stories of conflicts in Ondo and Oyo States between herdsmen,...
Abuja is under siege. Terror lives and breathes here. Citizens are kidnapped every day from their homes but sadly, some of these tragedies escape outrage and...
Finally, finally, finally, President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Service Chiefs, who, for over two years, had passed their retirement age. More importantly, they had outlived...
Leadership must be responsive to diversity. It is the rudimentary ingredient to fostering unity among variegated people. Where leadership becomes insouciant to diversity, every other thing...
The presidency on Friday explained why the white pigeons released by President Muhammadu Buhari during last week’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration initially refused to fly....
Priesthood, in every mundane and spiritual ramification, is a special calling deserving of respect. Unlike the evangelical new-generation Pastors and ‘Bishops’ and ‘Prophets’ laying claim to...
On November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group...
In 1999 at the threshold of the New Millennium the corporate world was held spell bound by a campaign blitz about the inevitable crash of computer...
Crime has no ethnic face. When criminality is defined according to ethnic origin or religion, social cohesion is threatened. There are people of criminal inclinations in...
We are outcomes of our society and our society is a consequence of our essence. We live by the governing examples and norms of our community...
Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be inaugurated on 20th January as the 46th President of the United States of America. His historic election was made possible...
Ever since he happened presidentially on the national stage five odd years ago President Muhammadu Buhari and his handlers and aides had not ceased bemoaning the...
I have been in a running battle with some very influential members of the Duke Summit. Not only them but it seems a large swath of...
If the 2023 presidency is relieved of competition and minimised to an ethnic contest, then we are consciously backtracking to the mistakes of 2015. Ethnic considerations...
Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course, so says John C. Maxwell. The importance of leaders and leadership cannot...
In the book, Effective Leadership Formula, I compared the leadership patterns in the United States of America and that of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and...
One thing is constant in the human ecosystem – class struggle. According to Karl Marx: “The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of...
The pictures and posts came like a quick silver German Army attack. The kinds of attacks that dropped bombs on London during the second world war...
We love scandals. By ‘’we’’ I mean both the dramatis personae in a scandal and the spectators sitting in judgment. Why would a superior at a...
Nigerians are playing with COVID-19, and in so doing, they are playing with fire and death. Why are we so blest and yet so suicidal? When...
Let me first out myself. I am a former employee of FCMB. I worked there for a bit in the securities trading arm, CSL. CSL is...
By my educated guess, it will take four decades to put Nigeria together after the exit of President Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria is like humpty-dumpty –...
The Yuletide was upon us yet again last week. A great season whose reason had over the years been bastardized by uncontrollable mundane elements and forces....
He shot from the hips as he is wont to do. He never minces words and I think the believe in his infallibility or inability to...
Nigerians are justifiably miserable because of the fragile nature of the nation’s security, economy, democracy and governance. 2020 has been particularly difficult due to diverse challenges...
Chioma is having troubles with her mother-in-law. I know because she made it headline news on her social media page. She does not share her concerns...
The writing of books, commentaries, essays on executive political leaders, focusing especially on the efforts and the place of Presidential figures in history, popular culture and...
Security is everybody’s business. It is a flawed assumption that issues of security must remain strictly within the orbit of agencies with the lawed responsibility. Even...
In the evening of February 19, 2018, 110 schoolgirls of Government Girls’ Science Secondary School, Dapchi in Yunusari local government of area of Yobe state were...
In the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Democracy involves fair representation and equal treatment for all. In...
Nigeria is an exceptionally intolerant country – religion-wise. In fact, the country is next to Iran on the religious intolerance threshold. You could get killed, threatened,...
After 72 years of conflict, it is time for Israel and the Palestinians to realize that while a two-state solution remains the most viable option, there...
The realities in Imo State tend to compel us to do certain things if we must have the Imo State of our dreams. One of the...
I met someone over the weekend and we had a long conversation on Nigerian politics. He is a Nigerian from the diaspora who has come back...
Prophet Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, popularly known as Odumeje, is the charismatic leader of the Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention Deliverance Ministry based in Onitsha, Anambra State. Though...
