Interviews & Profiles

The Professor Who Gave Me Rehabilitation

A human being can save your life without your knowing it. The way I operated back in time could have led to my utter...

Prof Bart Nnaji As A Sports Superstar

Prof Bart Nnaji is globally renowned for his revolutionary innovations in robotics, e-Design and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He has served as Nigeria’s Power Minister as...

The Homecoming Ties Of Prof Nduka Otiono

The don makes it a point of duty to always come home to Nigeria from his duty post as Director, Institute of African Studies,...

87 Spells Immortality In The Wole Soyinka Canon

He was so daring early in life that nobody gave him any chance to live up to 87 years on this earth. But here...

The Example of Viko TV

Television can be quite arresting, especially if one is in the studio being served news, politics, the economy and sports in real time. It...

Remembering My Time with Okot p’Bitek at Great Ife

Okot p’Bitek, the great Ugandan poet, author of Song of Lawino, always held court at the bar in the foyer of Oduduwa Hall, the...

Toni Kan Strikes 50 With Panache

It was fun at first sight. The first time I set eyes on Toni Kanayo Onwordi, famously known as Toni Kan, I found fun oozing...

Yinka Odumakin: the storm is over!

'Abiodun, stop crying; the storm is over!' Those were the exact words of Peter Oluyinka Odumakin to me at Saint James’ Anglican Church, Aramoko-Ekiti in Ekiti State, on November 5, 2009. It was on the...

The Indispensible Economist Prof Uka Ezenwe

While going through a WhatsApp group recently I beheld the icon: Emeritus Professor Uka Ezenwe, the venerated dean of legions of economists who has...

Happy Birthday to Omoyele Sowore at 50!

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...

Tribute To My Peerless Pearl – Deaconess Comfort Oluremi Ajala (1952 – 2021)

'Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated' dictum per the French poet - Alphonse de Lamartine As I still tried to ruminate...

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Governor Okorocha and the Erectile Dysfunctional Statues of History

As Owerri, Imo state, Nigeria, is beguiled with the...

The Nigerian Factor

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Yar’Adua/Goodluck Duo As Third Term Alternative

Tell you what...the man who has been picked as the PDP presidential candidate is really no different from the Shehu Shagari of our Second Republic...

Modest Proposals on Corruption

Last week, I exchanged a series of messages on...

Our Continued Disunity

I wonder how long we are going to continue this disunity. Many lives are lost as a result of our inability to become united as one people, yet we still have an ethnic and tribalistic outlook...

The Nigerian Police and Opposition of Government

The clamour for the creation of state police by...

Puny Men, Vendors of Impunity

Bankole appears to be an expert in matters of pugilism. Last June, he presided over a session of the House that degenerated into an all-out brawl. That shoving, clawing, knuckle-throwing and clothe-tearing spectacle has since become a top draw on youtube...

Selecting Emirs And Obas In The North And South Of Nigeria

It is a sad commentary on our country that we spend far too much money on avoidable litigations. I used to think the Urhobos were the most guilty of that virus. Not any more...

Just How Gullible Art Thou?

In every human setting, there are misled African souls. A disheartening truth however is that it is in the Third World that you find them most...

The Political climate change in River’s PDP must stop

Whether there was a plan to impeach Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State or not, let there be peace. No people develop in the face of crisis...