Promise Adiele

Promise Adiele, PhD., Mountain Top University, Ogun State, Nigeria. X: @drpee4

Peter Obi, Gowon and a Country in Turmoil

Nigeria’s former military head of state Mr Yakubu Gowon recently marked his 90th birthday anniversary. Expectedly, many Nigerians felicitated him on the landmark occasion....

My Journey to Kirikiri Prison

Barrister Jubril Salami is my good friend. Our friendship started at Henry Carr Hall, University of Lagos. I cannot immediately remember how our friendship...

The Criminal Tendencies of Some Nigerian Banks

There is no hiding place for Nigerians as they grapple with different difficult circumstances of everyday subsistence. Frustration and despair intrude into Nigeria’s daily...

Who will save Nigeria?

For reasons ranging from my late parents’ Christian tutelage to personal convictions about the inviolable sanctity of the Godhead, I gravitate towards biblical narratives...

Nigeria: When Will Enough Be Enough?

 As a popular expression, “enough is enough” conveys multiple meanings that converge under the umbrella of expired patience, prolonged anticlimactic delay, and inevitable exasperation....

Nigeria:  Let’s Discuss Ambition

“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff” … submitted Mark Anthony during his funeral oration for Julius Caesar. Anthony contends that ambitious people should...

The Speech Bola Tinubu Did Not Make

Words are powerful whether in written or spoken contexts. They decide and have decided the fate of many people, societies, and groups in human...

The Godswill Akpabio Prayer Request

Many people vehemently argue with verifiable indices that Nigeria, in addition to being the poverty capital of the world, is also the world’s spiritual...

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