The mouths of babes speak truths that the hoary and the wise dare not utter. This may be an unusual way to begin an address on...
By Churchill Okonkwo…. Over the years, I have realized that distressing about environmental issues in Nigeria is “a lonely exercise in abstract worry.” Yet, I am...
Benjamin Ugbana… After my experience last weekend and a chat with a staff of tech company Andela, it dawned on me the reason why folks that...
By Austin Echefu Owerri Zone has been very busy with the agitation of marginalization in the governorship equation of Imo State. Precisely, they say they have...
By Reuben Abati… “I wish I could travel to the US right now” “Why? Why not wait till summer time?” “No, I feel like going there...
By Joseph Edgar… The way and manner these people toy with our lives and the future of our children can really be very annoying and sometimes...
By Remi Oyeyemi…. Dear Sir, I extend to you, sir, the compliments of the season. I also congratulate you for being among the living appointed as...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… For the first time, I witnessed all the participants in a recently held Delta state Local Council polls ( winners and losers) alike,...
By Joseph Edgar… I belong to two very vibrant ‘’what’s App’’ groups dedicated to the robust discuss of politics and the economy- the Habib Bank former...
By Dele Momodu… Fellow Nigerians, thanks for the deluge of messages and phone calls last week after reading my memo to our dear President. I doubt...
By Joseph Edgar… Let no man fool himself again, we are at war. This Fulani herdsman issue is no longer an irritation on our collective bum...
By SOC Okenwa…. Every new year in Nigeria some prominent pastors and men of God would give their prediction of events for the year — good...
By Wole Soyinka… It is happening all over again. History is repeating itself and, alas, within such an agonizingly short span of time. How often must...
By Churchill Okonkwo… At the peak of the Innoso-GTBank saga last December, a friend challenged me to “find the courage to write about the travails of...
By Louis Odion… As the nation groped in fuel darkness during the Yuletide season, the Nobel laureate’s distraught words perhaps best described the shame and tragedy...
By Reuben Abati I wrote the following piece, presented in italics, shortly after the postponement of the 2015 Presidential elections. It is important that the reader...
By Nnenna Obiano… The just concluded Anambra State election really was not an election as much as it was a referendum on Peter Obi. It was...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi…. From observations, there is no doubt that our leaders are experts in listening without being attentive to the masses; an attribute that has,...
By Reno Omokri… In July 2012, clashes between natives and herdsmen reached a head in Plateau state leading to tens of deaths on both sides. Then...
By Remi Oyeyemi… Nigeria is in the throes of agony. An agony that has compulsorily redefined our morality as we know it. It is also an...
By SOC Okenwa…. The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ruled Nigeria for sixteen uninterrupted years — from 1999 to 2015. Today, having lost the presidential poll of...
By Joseph Edgar… I had to borrow a portion of this title from the great Chinua Achebe simply because I really could not come up very...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Businesses have always contributed a haven where you find people of different ethnic groups in pursuit of economic salvation. Any business that...
By ‘Remi Oyeyemi When at 10.22am on January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI of France was executed at Place de la Révolution (“Revolution Square”, formerly Place...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Innocent Chukwuma, the Owner of Innocent Motors must be admired for bringing solid manufacturing jobs home. We are all praying or wishing...
By Reuben Abati… “I do not believe in my mind that the way things are in Nigeria, any Catholic priest has the mandate to decide which...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… With the Saturday 6th, January 2018 Delta state Local Council polls now around the corner, all eyes are on the state. This feeling...
By Reuben Abati George Weah’s emergence as Liberia’s President-elect after the December 26 run-off election generated considerable interest among Nigerians for a number of reasons. Number...
By Gideon Oghenetega… The political class would appear to have made up its mind about the 2019 elections. Nigeria ‘compulsorily’ has to choose between a Buhari...
By Churchill Okonkwo…. Mr. Femi Adesina, I am very disappointed by your birthday sermon on Mr. President titled “Buhari At 75: Why God Kept Him Alive.”...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Does anyone remember or know the saying that on your way up, remember those you climbed on because you may need them...
By Louis Odion… The medley of pulsating melodies, riding the tranquilizing breeze from the ocean, had soaked up the swanky ambience at the emerging Eko Atlantic...
By Churchill Okonkwo… Nwannem nwoko Rochas, you have been flirting with madness. The news is that madness has started flirting back and your thoughtlessness is now...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi…. As envisaged, the national political terrain has again become tensed up with a lot of intrigues that only the strong hearted will be...
By Reuben Abati… Perhaps in the long run, the most remarkable legacy of the Nigerian leader known as Olusegun Obasanjo would be his personal example, in...
By Joseph Edgar… We have woken up to another round of fuel scarcity occasioned by the strike called out by the PENGASSAN which happens to be...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… There are some quite interesting details to note from the judgment of Justice John Tsoho which declared Dr. Obiora Okonkwo as Senator for...
By Ifeanyi Afuba…. In the countdown to the January 13, 2018 rerun of the Anambra Central Senatorial zone election, veteran of the APGA struggle, Victor Chukwunonyelu...
By Pius Adesanmi…. It appears I am the only one who missed Hijab-gate! I am coming to it late but I have a few random observations....
By Remi Oyeyemi… Murtala Mohamed was determined to break up Nigeria. His coup of July 28,1966 was aimed at pulling out the North from Nigeria until...
By Prince Singa Edward Zhattau… A CNN video footage visualized it all before the global audience – the heinous practices where men are being auctioned for...
By Nyerhovwo Tonukari… The scourge of malaria is something that has become wearisomely familiar in Nigeria. Most persons suffer from this life-threatening disease several times a...
By Charly Boy…. O boy, Na wa oooo! The way most Nigerians dey take carry matter for head dey crack my ribs. True true, I no...
By SOC Okenwa Owelle Rochas Okorocha, the executive Governor of Imo State, is one bloody big man of big dreams! He once dreamt risibly of becoming...
By Joseph Edgar… It is beginning to look like the duo Buhari and Atiku would be the most likely contestants come 2019. Although it is looking...
By Gozie Irogboli… The most dominant topic in the political circles and among political commentators in Nigeria at present is the recent defection of Alhaji Atiku...
by Reuben Abati The elective Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that took place at the Eagle Square in Abuja on Saturday, December 9, was...
By Jerome- Mario Utomi… There was a veiled agreement among stakeholders at a recent gathering in Lagos that the governments in Nigeria at all levels are...
By SOC Okenwa… This weekend opens the Peoples Democratic Party’s national (elective) convention in Abuja. For weeks and months now following the victory of the Ahmed...
By Joseph Edgar… Buhari’s last visit to Kano reminds me of an old Hollywood movie I once watched. It was a Babra Streisand Movie and she...