Rule Nigeria Democratically
Current socio-political tension in the country calls for a national reconciliatory conference where pressing national issues will be debated, says…
A Tribute To Tunji Braithwaite (1933 – 2016)
Tunji O! Tunji O! The socio-cratic revolution is just beginning! Where are you! Tunji was a Christian, gentleman, an ardent…
Leyii Kwanee: Rivers State’s Undercover Good Samaritan
Leyii Kwanee is not your ordinary politician. He has none of the flamboyance and excessive ostentatiousness of most Nigerian politicians…
What is next for Dr. Reuben Abati?
What is next for Dr Rueben Abati? Dr Reuben Abati, the spokesperson for the outgoing government of president Goodluck Jonathan…
Dimgba Igwe: Light Too Soon Dimmed
I had just returned home from dropping off a friend at a train station last Saturday (September 6) when I…
Christy Essien Igbokwe, RIP
May her soul rest in peace. May God grant her husband, Chief Edwin Igbokwe and her 4 sons the fortitude to manage this irreparable loss…
Isaach De Bankolé: A Flower of the Tribe
At a canopied table we sit, black coffee and double Espresso steaming, to have a chat about his life, his work, the prolific international actor: Isaach De Bankolé…
My Friend and Brother, Nze Sunny Ogbu JP (1965-2010)
Nze will not fit into your bill of a typical Nigerian politician; his philosophy of politics without bitterness was modelled after the late Waziri Ibrahim of GNPP. He never saw politics as a ‘do or die’ affair, believing strongly in his catholic faith that only the will of God will prevail at all times…
Interview With His Excellency, Ambassador Obed Wadzani Embassy of Nigeria In Spain
My most trying moment was when I got to Spain and met the challenges of the passport issue. Something positive has been done to rectify the problems…
Oluyinka Gbenga Akerele
Mr. Yinka Akerele was born into a politically conscious family and learnt the trade quite early as a child. He ventured into full time politics in 1999 when he showed interest in the chairmanship position of the Ifako- Ijaye Local government in Lagos…
Memories of my father
Last Friday, May 28, was the 15th anniversary of the death of my father, Christopher Chidebe Ndibe, a man who was C.C. to his friends and, simply, C. to his wife. For me it’s somewhat hard to believe that so many years have rolled by since the passing of the most morally well-funded man I have ever known…
Stanley Macebuh: Enemy of ‘Junkola’ Journalism
Stanley Macebuh may have projected his liberal fantasies in most of his journalism, but there was no obfuscatory logorrhea and gobbedy-gook weasel verbiage that may dethrone reason. He was the apostle of lucidity and a purifier of public intellection…
Denudation: Remembering Dr. Bala Mohammed Bauchi – 1944-1981
Dr. Bala Mohammed was an archetype of that sociopolitical genus known in this country as the Radical Leftists; and he was the first of them to be assassinated at the height of Nigeria’s Second republic…
Dance Died: A tribute to Michael Joseph Jackson
No one could ever dance like Michael Joseph Jackson. We are lucky to have encountered such a genius on our pilgrimage here on earth. As he Michael Jackson is always “Startin Something”, we are sure that he would “thrill” the heavens, as his “Thriller” did us here!
Michael Jackson, the Enigmatic American Icon
Michael Jackson was brilliant, beloved and enormously talented. He was ironically the title of his music albums; He was a thriller, he was Bad, he was Off the Wall, Dangerous to himself, he was electrifying, he was weird and deeply flawed!
Cobhams Asuquo: An Intense Worship Experience With A True Psalmist God Freak
According to Cobhams Asuquo, faith is like a habit that we develop. Like when a man slaps a woman once, it becomes easier to do it a second time till it becomes a bad habit…