By Reuben Abati… “I just love this country, I won’t lie” “What have you seen again that has suddenly turned you into a gushing patriot?” “I...
Some gory pictures and videos of a seven-year-old boy who was beaten and burnt to death for allegedly stealing garri in Lagos went viral on Nigerian...
By Reuben Abati . . . “Have you eaten today? If not, let me show you this new restaurant. Good food, the service girls specially attractive,...
By Olusegun Adeniyi . . . President Muhammadu Buhari was in Qatar last week and the major news that came out of the visit was the...
By Reuben Abati . . . “My brother, e ku exchange rate oh.” “Excuse me?” “I am greeting you. I am saying how are you and...
Olalekan Waheed Adigun . . . When many thought the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is ticking the right boxes for 2019, the party leadership came up...
By Tonnie Iredia . . . The condemnable attempt a few days ago by just 5 Kogi State legislators to remove their Speaker, Momoh Jimoh Lawal,...
By Bolaji Niniowo . . . . On Monday, February 15, 2018, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria reportedly directed the Federal Ministry...
By Sonola Olumhense EARLY in my career, I was invited to dinner by my Second Republic state governor, Professor Ambrose Alli. I was to share his...
By Reuben Abati . . . It is that time of the year again in the month of February, when there is so much talk and...
By Indang Alibi . . . There are two sayings often uttered, accompanied by a smile of mischievous wisdom, by judges and lawyers in Nigeria...
By SOC Okenwa The Nigerian former President Olusegun Obasanjo could be described as an executive letter-writer of repute. Right from the Locust years of Ibrahim Babangida...
By Dan Agbese . . . . President Muhammadu Buhari confessed last week that the judiciary had become his major headache in his anti-corruption battle. Shocking....
By Reuben Abati . . . Catholic priests in Nigeria have always captured the public imagination, some of them have served in government positions, some were...
By Jude Ndukwe . . Dear Fr, I write you this letter with all sense of humility and deep respect for you and your calling as...
By Levi Obijiofor Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the governing party at the federal level, has cast himself as...
By Patrick Nwadike . . . Nobody is being witch-hunted. Those crying witch-hunting are actually the witches hunting us down. Our problem is the failed justice...
MORE than 30 years ago, a young general swept to power in the fifth of Nigeria’s military coups since independence in 1960. The country he inherited...
By Seyi Olu Awofeso Sensing he’s got no wrench to remove a spigot from the faucet, the world press takes turns to cast Muhamadu Buhari...
By Sonala Olumhense Do you operate a bank account in Nigeria? If you do, it is a safe bet that you have obtained a Bank Verification...
By Reuben Abati Something sad has happened and is happening, and is getting worse in our society: the decline of public intellectualism. And so I ask,...
By Prince Charles Dickson So, I went last week to buy a “reliable” made in China Casio calculator, it even had the benefit of also...
By Pastor Tunde Bakare… Isaiah43: 18 and 19 “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a...
By Reuben Abati… January 15 every year is Nigeria’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day: wreaths are laid, statements are made, soldiers, government officials and the Nigerian Legion...
By Akintokunbo Adejumo . . . I have been musing over the conundrum above for a very long time, even before this new dispensation of the...
In a recent report, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, disclosed that over 78 reruns will be held in a number of states for the Senate,...
By Greg Odogwu Unemployment is always listed as one of Nigeria’s cardinal problems. But when Julius Berger told President Muhammadu Buhari that he needed to do...
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo . . . “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” This quote is attributed to the ancient Greek...
By Femi Fani-Kayode Mr. President, as one of your most loyal and faithful subjects who has nothing but the utmost respect for your person and your...
By Abrahams Akwu . . . We are a democratic nation, our laws are written, documented and above all Nigeria is signatory to international conventions on...
By Auwal Usman . . . The arms fund scandal has the entire nation in a twist. The true beneficiaries of the scam are getting away....
By Dele Momodu . . . Nothing in the world prepares you for this kind of encounter. Not the fact that you grew up in middle-income...
Olusegun-Adeniyi. . . . That the violent confrontation in Zaria last weekend between members of the Sheikh Ibraheem Yaquob El Zakzaky Islamic Movement of Nigeria sect...
By Dan Agbese . . . I AM prepared to wager that no Nigerian would be prepared to confess, in public or the privacy of his...
By Okey Ndibe I have been distressed beyond words by what has crystallized as an agitation for Biafra’s divorce from Nigeria. I am disturbed that this...
By Reuben Abati A day after the present set of Ministers took oath of office, Nigerians took to twitter to recommend books they think will be...
By Adeola Aderounmu One day my phone rang 5 minutes after l returned home from a shopping mall. I had done the weekly grocery shopping for...
By Okey Ndibe Occasionally it becomes one’s fortune to read a statement that so closely captures one’s thinking about an issue. When that happens, one is...
By Dele Momodu . . . Your Excellency, it’s been months since I wrote my desperate memo to you. I wish to thank you once more...
By Femi Fani-Kayode . . . ”Aside the 105 soldiers killed by Boko Haram, additional 34 soldiers were killed two days ago but it wasn’t in...
“There is not a truth existing which I fear or wish unknown to the whole world.” – Thomas Jefferson “When it comes to the truth, the...
By Bayo Oluwasanmi . . . It is not uncommon for cowards to stage different con tactics to escape all responsibilities for their criminal acts. The...
By Kennedy Emetulu . . . As Prince Abubakar Audu, the gubernatorial candidate of the APC in the ongoing Kogi election has passed on, a legal...
By Etcetera . . . Dear President Buhari, I will like to extend an invitation to you for a tour of down town, so that you...
The apex lgbo socio- cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo has called on those agitating for Biafra to desist from it, and instead support the Muhammadu Buhari administration...
By Abdul Mahmud . . . For many, poverty is not only a way of life- forced not only by vicissitudes but by the way the...
By Olusegun Adeniyi . . . Sometime in 2006, (I cannot recollect the exact date or month), some selected editors were invited to a suite in...
By Okey Ndibe . . . Had ISIS not shocked the world by sponsoring a spree of deadly attacks at six locations in Paris last Friday,...
By Joe Onwukeme . . . The agitation for the state of Biafra has been a struggle that is not alien to Nigeria. Many of us...
By Ikechukwu Amaechi . . . The House of Representatives was in the news again last week, and, as many Nigerians have come to expect, for...
