We cannot play possum about it. Unity has remained a reverie, and an elusive expedition for Nigeria. We long for it, but we cannot reach it...
This day, July 19 should go down as a special moment in the economic history of Nigeria – the day when the country’s main vehicle for...
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PLACEHOLDER is a word that has now found favour and gained currency in Nigeria’s political lexicon. It came in the wake of the recent primaries of...
In the absence of 11th hour miracle, when an assessment of performance of the Executive arm of government will be carried out on May 29 next...
Nigeria is caught in a maelstrom. Ravagers roam across the land unchallenged, extracting tolls in tears and blood from citizens. They expropriate land and govern according...
Dr Ifeanyichukwu Arthur Okowa was born in 1959 at Owa-Alero in Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State. He is presently the Executive Governor of...
“Wahala be like bicycle” is an expression that most people familiar with Nigerian street lingo would easily identify with. It refers the unusual, the dramatic, a...
The clock is ticking loudly and counting down towards a new dawn for Nigeria as we head into the 2023 General election. As political drama continues...
I must start this piece by confessing that I have never met Comrade Omoyele Sowore in person before. While it is true that for the past...
Mrs Ukamaka Ejezie, popularly called ‘Mama Biafra’, was arrested outside the Federal High Court premises following the appearance of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in court weeks ago....
This current presidential election in Nigeria, since the return to democracy in 1999, is exceptional. There are many issues to consider, it is the most controversial...
A Little Fear We have come to the red-line; a point of no return – the height of making a decision. We are waiting to cross...
The election of President Mohammadu Buhari alias PMB in 2015 is what Nigerians have come to call the “mistake of 2015”. It was a blunder of...
IMPUDENCE. That is the word that captures the audacity of Peter Obi, trader, investor, public speaker, former governor of Anambra state and in 2019, running mate...
Last Sunday in St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo Town, Ondo State, pure terrorism was on full display as unknown gunmen invaded the church during service shooting...
The media space was awash with the video clips of the vituperation of one of the frontline presidential aspirants of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu pooh-poohing...
Today in much of Nigeria’s South-East, no thanks to a rash of arsons and killings blamed on those now labelled as “unknown gunmen, (UGM)” the falcon...
I have monitored with interest the clamor for the Igbo man to be given the chance to be elected president of Nigeria in the forth-coming presidential...
Foxy old Buhari. Artful. Deliberate. Unassuming but redoubtable. Principled but unaffected. He guards his mystery. He hardly betrays emotion. He keeps his real intentions secreted in...
The real criminals are insurgents in high places including special interest groups and any Government that creates a culture of violence and gives easy access to...
The just-concluded PDP presidential primaries, which ought to be a trending story in the media seem to have been eclipsed by a more worrisome development that...
Nigeria’s 18 registered political parties have been busy, in recent times, with their primaries, in line with the schedule of activities approved by the Independent National...
It is well-known to all that the Ninth Senate had sent quite a number of public legislative bills to the President for assent; one of such...
Chief Tayo Soyode’s name may ring only a minimal bell in national politics outside the Progressives and South-West circles. However, this Marine Engineer-trained Lagosian is father...
With the 2023 general election less than a year away, high level consultations and political campaigns are intensely going on in every nook and cranny of...
Righteous indignation has trailed the recent gruesome assassination of a second-year Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, by a...
It is goldmine season for Nigerian lawyers, meal time, boom time as every election season has been, but now more than ever. Every electoral process, pre-...
”Conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it”. This profound statement has been attributed to Uthman Dan Fodio, the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate...
The current presidential election process in Nigeria, the sixth, since the return to democratic rule in 1999, is like no other before it. It is the...
It is a kaleidoscope – the pattern keeps mutating. Nigeria’s politics should be among the most unpredictable, intriguing and exhilarating. There are more smokescreens than actual...
Abubakar Malami is the Nigerian Minister of (in)Justice and Attorney-General of the federation. By the combination of these two powerful offices Malami could be said to...
A plus can change. Leadership fails, followership fails; society atrophies and nothing changes. Why? We keep reinventing purgatory because we are either too complacent or too...
Twitter, Instagram and Facebook facilitate our daily digital interactions among friends and relatives, far and near. Cross-fertilisation of ideas remains a democratic imperative in a free...
‘’It’s not my problem.’’ – This was President Muhammadu Buhari’s immutable response to a question on his thoughts on the 2023 elections. Buhari has been coerced...
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, formally declared his intention to succeed his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, last Monday. By so doing he had put speculations...
Who are those counselling Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)? They just goaded the presidential hopeful to make a...
The current nature of international relations, which is marked by a surge in diverse (economic, political and socio-cultural) crises, demanding the mobilization of joint capacities of...
Two months since I wrote any article. Yes, I took a break because writing couldn’t give me the healing that I really desired. Albeit, 29th March...
Nigeria also needs policies in positive discrimination in the political realm. That’s why I am a strong advocate for constitutionally enshrining power rotation at all levels...
Two unrelated developmental issues jolted me into reality a little over a week ago, March 22, to be precise. One of the events had a continental...
In July 2015, Nigerian President, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, fresh from that year’s presidential election victory after three failed successive attempts visited the United States of America...
Professor Farooq Kperogi is a Nigerian-born Journalism and Emerging Media lecturer at the Kennesaw State University in Atlanta Georgia, the United States. He is one of...
Did you know Ifeanyi Okowa is running for president in 2023? Well, yes, he is. I was surprised when I learnt the governor of Delta state...
General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) needs no introduction in Nigeria and elsewhere around the world. As a professional coup-plotter who overthrew another coup-plotter (now President, Muhammadu...
SLAM dunk is a basketball term. Ordinarily, it means a shot in which a player thrusts the ball down through the basket. In that situation the...
Let us begin today’s discourse with a sexy but philosophical quiz. Which of the following best describes the meaning of life? (A) Life is a battle...
There will eventually be a motley crowd of contenders and pretenders to the presidency of Nigeria in 2023 on the platform of the ruling All Progressives...
President Muhammadu Buhari can be inscrutable. Difficult to predict and divine. You cannot tell what he is thinking. And like the old general that he is,...
In reality and in the present circumstances, Okoro is barely a citizen of Nigeria. It does not really matter that the Igbo man is autochonous and...
Killing, killing, killing in the name of Biafra! When did murder become typical of the Igbo stock? When did taking innocent lives become classic in Igbo...
