I woke up the other day to the news that certain youths from the northern side of the country are allegedly blocking food trucks from ferrying goods down south. It juxtaposed well with all the other strange...
The iroko stands tall and mighty, stretching its boughs across the firmament. The song of the heart is in arresting dialogue with the iroko, the one tree that makes the vast forest of Africa. The chair I sit on...
Let’s play politics – party politics, that is. No less a worthy than Aristotle stated that man is by nature a political animal, and who am I not to obey the great philosopher by playing my own politics on this...
There is every indication that the unguarded spirited moves in certain quarters, to present a common candidate for Edo Central, to succeed the incumbent Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, come 2024 Governorship...
Ojukwu: The ‘Rebel’ I Served by Uche Ezechukwu; ThoniMartins Ltd, Abuja, Benin, Lagos; 2012 Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu almost always dominated all discourse in the course of his journey on earth. In death he upped the...
With the successes recorded so far in the Transportation sector, particularly in the Railway Revolution, would Amaechi have done better as Defense Minister with the level of insecurity facing the Government he fought so...
Man: You dey go Maryland? Keke Driver: Make we dey go. Man: How much? Keke Driver: (Scans him and realizes he is new to the city): #1,500. Teacher to Students: As you know, your Chemistry exam is coming up next week. If...
Corruption is one of many intractable social pathologies ravaging Nigeria. Corruption is a symptom of deep institutional weakness which leads to inefficient economic, social and political outcomes. Corruption embraces a...
They no longer make women like my very own Auntie Ngozi. No, I have to be more precise: they no longer make men and women like Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the newly-minted Director-General of the World Trade...
Controversies surround reasons why religion thrives in Nigeria. It is said to be an opium. For some, regular religious attendance is a prerequisite for a good life in heaven after the misery here, and continued...
Everyone even the consumers of the biggest heap of pounded cassava were proved wrong by the Indomie-Generation in the events of October, 2020 in Nigeria when young people organized themselves in peaceful (EndSars)...
The Nigerian Police Force is an outdated, inefficient and corruption-ridden institution that lacks the ability to fight crime in the 21st century. The lawlessness of the Fulani herdsmen has yet again brought into focus...
I am in the age bracket with Comrade Omoyele Sowore; a little bit older than him. Though I am not comfortable with Sowore’s tactic and strategy for the emancipation of the Nigerian people, I am solidly inspirited...
The industrial hostilities between the Federal government of Nigeria, FGN, and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, seems to have come to an end. With that, academic activities revved full throttle all over...