By Pius Adesanmi . . . If you look across Africa today, the postcolonized African often sees himself as an improvement on his colonized ancestors. In...
By Michael Egbejumi-David . . . “Most importantly, our deep concern is her record which showed that she dumps political parties at will, leaving the parties...
By Joseph Rotimi In the past 48 hours the people of Dalori and Walori villages, about four kilometres from Maiduguri have borne the fury of a...
“GIVE me lucky generals,” Napoleon is supposed to have said, preferring them to talented ones. Muhammadu Buhari, a former general, has not had much luck when...
By Patrick Nwadike Hello, Oga, are you back from Nigeria? Did I tell you that I will travel? Anyway, I’m back! Why are you angry? Wetin...
By OLUGU OLUGU ORJI “No victor, no vanquished:” that was the slogan that greeted us as we crawled out of our bushy holes after the collapse...
By Joe Onwukeme… The quote, “I have proven to Nigerians that my political ambition is not worth anyone’s blood” by Good luck Jonathan on every appearance...
By Etcetera . . . Having helplessly watched corruption over the years eat deep into the fabric of our society, with its devastating effects on our...
By Seyi Olu Awofeso . . . . Nigeria is today in a funk and a panic mode. A local newspaper said Sunday that the country’s...
Joseph Rotimi The current political leadership of Nigeria campaigned with an air of feigned respectability, change and a somewhat arrogant sense of inevitability. Before the elections,...
By Mcginger Ibeneme It was Peter Obi who buried APC in Igboland when he claimed that Fashola deported Igbos. He went on air, sensationalized it. Good...
By Onuoha Frank . . . . Mobile communication giant, MTN has concluded the purchase of Visafone network. Yes, MTN now owns Visafone…but that’s not the...
By Emeka Oparah . . . The Social Media has been abuzz since yesterday following the demolition of the famous or notorious (depending on your perspective)...
Following the controversy that trailed money collected and shared to some members of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) from the administration of former President...
By Ruth Francis . . . The December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa reminded me of one of the seminar papers I delivered in the University...
By By Jideofor Adibe . . . The recent announcement by the Federal Government that effective from January 1, 2016, Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known...
By Jideofor Adibe . . . The recent declaration by President Buhari that the country has “technically won the war” against Boko Haram reminds one of...
By Shehu Garba . . . . As the war on corruption heightens, the political battle-line between the governing All Progressives Congress, APC and the opposition...
By Adeola Aderounmu . . . The hysteria that normally trails announcement of loots stolen and recovered have been with Nigeria since after independence in 1960....
By Ishola Taiwo . . . In spite of belated efforts by some more PR savvy persons to amend the connotations of the brand, the fact...
By Emeka Opara . . . And so, here’s the more serious part of my trip to Imo State last week, which gave me a better...
By Mausi Segun . . . This week, Nigeria’s senators moved a bill designed to muzzle free speech on social media one step closer to becoming...
By Cosmos Ugwuoke . . . What I am about doing here doesn’t have particular dates but it happened mostly within in our very recent past...
By Enite Benjamin . . . Coordinator of Ijaw Monitoring Group, Comrade Joseph Evah in a recent interview, talked about how the people of the Niger...
By Seun Lucas . . . It has become imperative that I share my thoughts on the “Kogi Situation” beyond the plenty talks I do at...
By Kuforiji Moses . . . Below are some of the reasons why the stupidly confrontational approach by Nnamdi Kalu and his neo-Biafrans is failing. I...
By Yinka Adelani . . . President Muhammadu Buhari has consistently maintained that he wants to be remembered for killing corruption in Nigeria or at least,...
By Ify Chiemeziem . . . I saw a newborn baby thrown away in a rubbish dumb in Calabar. His mother put him in a polythene...
By Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba . . The first half of the 21st century is turning out to be decades full of fear around the globe including...
By Ali Smart . . . Yours sincerely has never been a great fan of the immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for reasons l’m...
By Chibuzo Obiakor . . . It hurts to know that very few Igbo grown-ups (elites) are using Igbo youths to pursue money and selfish political...
By Michael Egbejumi-David . . . Driving through some streets of Abuja central area some three weeks or so ago, I came across some squat posters...
By Juliet Asante . . . I am a gal torn between two worlds! Literally! Last week, I was at the Sundance gala in NYC that...
By Senator Shehu Sani . . . “I don’t know of any problem between the senate president and Mr. President. Buhari is the president to Nigeria...
By Emeka Oparah . . . How many of you watched the 11-hour Congressional Hearing on Benghazi featuring former FLOTUS, former senator representing New York and...
By Emeka Oparah . . . I think the governors of the SE states, who appear to be generally clueless, should urgently meet and seriously discuss the...
By Emeka Oparah . . . Since Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party shocked the Conservatives and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada with a surprise victory in...
By Aik Amaechi . . . . The recent arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu by the Nigerian Department of State Security Services...
By Ify Chiemeziem… As a little girl in Sokoto State, my father enrolled me in a government primary school taken over from the Catholic Church. I...
By Michael John… You had to read the ministerial list again and again and again in order to believe that it is a “Lai.” Holy Moses!...
By Oledinma Onyesarah … . In ‘Orika’ kingdom we have an adage that says: ‘if a hunter sends his dog to fight other dogs, when the...
By Sam Ibemere … The very long wait is over! It came to an end Wednesday, September 30, 2015. On that day, on a very sober...
By Sam Ibemere … Kano, the great city of the red-cap wearing Kwankwasiyya troupe is in the news. I do not know what else newspapers live...
By Sam Ibemere … I woke up on the morning of the first day of the Sallah holidays not knowing what to make of a distasteful...
By Tolu Ogunlesi … I spent the first week of August travelling in the Niger delta, by road from Port Harcourt to Yenagoa to Warri to...
AOL co-founder and one-time Chairman/CEO Steve Case and his wife Jean were in Lagos recently for an introduction to the city’s burgeoning technology start-up community. Their...
By Tolu Ogunlesi …. Did the government of Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, leave the newly elected administration facing a 7 trillion naira (USD$35 billion) deficit...