By Remi Oyeyemi… “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all...
By Sonala Olumhense… His name: Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s President-Elect. The man who, in one week, would take control of the Africa’s most bewildering country. He was...
By Pius Adesanmi…. Now that a world-acclaimed Professor of Law is running the show in the land, you’d expect him to use this window to inject...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu…. In September of 2015, more than four months after he was inaugurated as President of the Federal Republic, Mohammadu Buhari, under pressure to...
By SOC Okenwa Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Chairman of Dangote Group, is the African richest man and one of the richest in the world. The business mogul...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo Nigerian problem is like Lagos traffic, long, complex, and ugly. I have been attempting to solve the complex equation – Nigeria, and...
By Dele Awogbeoba … Nigeria has had a rather chequered history with democracy. Since 1999, Nigeria has had an uninterrupted democratic experiment which has been largely...
By Joseph Edgar…. I have decided to look at this issue from another angle and to also look at it beyond the personalities involved. This write...
By Olisa Akukwe… The broadcast on Biafra by Al-Jazeera must have hit home. I know this for sure with the rush by apologists of the Military-North...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… On Tuesday, July 18, 2017, it was publicly announced, and published, that the Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Solid Minerals,...
By ‘Remi Oyeyemi… Yes, that dance by the newly elected Senator Ademola Adeleke of Osun – West Senatorial district has been making the waves. It is...
By David Pilling (Financial Times) The term “dead cat bounce” derives from the fact that even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a...
By Reuben Abati… On Wednesday, July 12, the Supreme Court saved our democracy and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). It did with its ruling in the...
By Charles Ogbu…. That Nigeria is not a nation is a fact which can only be disputed by a man with a very confused and lopsided...
By Benjamin Ugbana… Many good people have lost their lives in strange environments and many others have ended up in Police cells here in Nigeria simply...
By Joseph Edgar…. This morning, I was hit with a clip showing our new Senator Adeleke dancing to the hilt. His moves shows an expatriate and...
By Reuben Abati… Chi Onwurah, the Member of Parliament representing Newcastle Central in the UK House of Commons and my former colleague at the State House,...
By Louis Odion… So, a decade after bequeathing Sharia to Yobe and a quarter century political career during which he served thrice as Governor, Bukar Abba...
By Hassan Machido Kano… I am neither a soothsayer nor prophet but I know what the future holds. I can describe tomorrow with specific details. I...
By SOC Okenwa…. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) is a retired armoured General in the Nigerian Armed Forces. A professional coup plotter, he ruled the giant of...
By Jude Ndukwe….. In an interview granted Channels Television recently, El Rufai in his usual manner sounded rash, brash, saucy, arrogant, insolent and illogical while answering...
By Remi Oyeyemi… The issue of restructuring this unfortunate country called Nigeria is once again on the front burner. Restructuring remains one of the promises made...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo… Recently, the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, woke up from their slumber and described the call by IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu for...
By Gimba Kakanda… Our usually polarised literary community was chaotic this week as a tribe of writers entered the final lapse of its campaign for boycott...
By Reuben Abati …The most discussed subject in Nigeria today is what is called “restructuring” and indeed so popular is this subject that it has attracted...
By Samuel Ibemere… I have laughed ceaselessly since the image for this write-up crept up. All I hoped for when I shared the story idea with...
By Jude Ndukwe… We must have heard how the former media aide to erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, the self-called pastor and founder of the...
By Joseph Edgar….The push for the actualization of Biafra may have lost its momentum. It’s main leader, the very charismatic Nnamdi Kanu, had built a movement...
By Samuel Ibemere… Abeg, what the hell is going on in Lagos, the supposed home of excellence? For 37 days, six kids of Lagos Model College,...
By Joseph Edgar…. I recently read Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State and APC chieftain’s position on restructuring of the federation and that of the esthwile...
By Obi Nwakanma… Joe Igbokwe is an official bullhorn for Mr. Ahmed Bola Tinubu, whom he calls “my leader” and the Lagos APC, which apparently makes...
By Joe Igbokwe…. A few days ago a friend, patriot and a committed Nigerian, Emmanuel Majebi reminded me of the tragedy of looking the way and...
Mr President, jokes apart, can we get serious? By Samuel Ibemere… C’mon, what is there to be said about Nigeria that has not been said? The...
By Femi Fani- Kayode ….”All of us who do not speak the Hausa language in which Buhari allegedly addressed Nigerians are being told one thing: you...
By Femi Fani-Kayode …. “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves” -Harriet Tubman How...
By Christian Eze Njoku…The quit notice issued by Arewa Youths to Ndigbo living in northern Nigeria to a large extent, seems to evaluate the intellectual capacity...
By Gimba Kakanda… Last night, a friend asked me to explain my aversion to the idea of secession, thinking it was the fear, as amplified in...
By Kelechi Deca… Sometime in 1961, Edward Lorenz, a meteorology professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) entered some numbers into a computer program simulating weather...
Reuben Abati….I attended a meeting recently at the headquarters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in Bwari, Abuja: the post-2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination review...
By Olaitan Ladipo… There is a Yoruba saying that when a one-legged man sends his son to the market to buy him one shoe, it is...
Churchill Obinna Okonkwo… Ndigbo have a saying that preparedness does not symbolize fear or cowardice (nkwucha abughi ujo). The quit notice to Ndigbo by Arewa youths...
Sonala Olumhense … And so, last week, Bukola Saraki, Nigeria’s Senate President, walked out of court a free man. The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) acquitted...
By Dele Awogbeoba… For over two years now, the Igbo political elite have been uncomfortable with their choice for president losing at the last Nigerian presidential...
By Abdulmumin Jibrin… The Acting President made what, in my opinion, was a harmless remark when he observed that the National Assembly has no powers to...
By Remi Oyeyemi… “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin at the...
By SOC Okenwa… Last week some misguided Arewa youths in Kaduna issued an ultimatum to the Igbos living doing business in all northern states to leave...
By Charles Ogbu… The country called Nigeria is currently being subjected to bottom-less ridicule in the eye of the world, not necessarily because it is being...
By Femi Fani-Kayode…. Most columnists, writers and public commentators have shied away from doing so but today yours truly will treat a matter and pose a...
By Louis Odion… Mathew Hassan Kukah (MHK), it was, who perhaps best framed a key ethical question bogging the contemporary society with collapsing values. To reclaim...
By Pius Adesanmi… I’ve been paying attention to the ethnic composition of Nigerian criminal gangs with the corner of one eye. My non-scientific finding: our small...
