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,...

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 read a terse text...

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...

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Buhari’s Nigeria Is Not My Nigeria

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2011 Election: Checkmating Desperate Politicians!

Shifting the national Assembly poll from 2nd until 9th April 2011, is not Nigeria’s problem, but the outcome of these elections remain crucial to the Nigerian people...

Some Mothers Do Have Them…

General Ibrahim Babagida attempted to perpetuate himself in power. Abacha employed all strategies to achieve the same thing. Today, all we speak about is Obasanjo staying longer in power. Some mothers do have some funny children...

The Paedophiles In Our Midst

Paedophilia is a crime full stop. I don’t buy the argument being peddled in certain quarters that it is a disease...

Understanding Youth Conflict and Sustainable Initiative Model (3)

Conflict is one of the major concerns not only in any given continent, it also affects the international community as well. Conflict is simply the absence of peace, and the successive introduction of diversified sense of humor of people within the context of a community or society...

Birthday Boy

18 years after betraying a childhood love, here I am struck by the sudden appearance of my bank’s Client Relation Officer who bears every semblance of Yemi, my heartbroken first love...

Crime, Justice and Punishment: Bode George as a Case Study

Truth be told, many of us would like to see the likes of Bode George, Peter Odili, many Northern ex - and present Governors, some former Heads of State and Presidents and Vice-Presidents, civil servants, etc, lined up against a wall and shot...

The Business of Drafting Jonathan

There’s a new business in Nigeria. It’s the business of drafting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to present himself for reelection. A group called Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) has emerged as the biggest, most enterprising player...

Buhari, Stop the Charade of War against Corruption, Please!

President Muhammadu Buhari should admit, today, not tomorrow, that...