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,...

Restless Diary: Yellow-Yellow Rivers of Dreams

In Yellow-Yellow, we see a Nigeria rotting in place as its people desperate for affirmation and survival engage in an elaborate okoso system of getting whatever they need  in return for whatever they can give...

Fela Anikulapo Kuti: 10 Years After, The Memory Lives On

Fela was more than a musician. He was a philosopher and teacher. He was a soothsayer, talented political, social and economic analyst, in all sense of the word. He used his protest music as an effective weapon for mass education of Nigerians...

My Interview with Jonathan Goodluck

"Could you please address me as “Your Excellency.” My official position demands you address me as such. You know I have a doctorate degree, I have chieftaincy titles five times over, I have been a governor and now I am just a heartbeat from the presidency…"

Dr Umelobi Ihekweazu, Physician and gentleman – 1932-2007

Last week, the news came of the death of Dr Umelobi Ihekweazu, retired physician and former Deputy Director of Medical Services at the University of Nigeria where I had grown up. The news came as a shock...

Tribute to a Living Legend: Chief Dr. Orlando Owoh

In his over forty years musical career, Chief Dr. Oladipupo Owoh, popularly called Orlando Owoh has without doubt proved to be one of the greatest musicians that have come out of Nigeria...

There is no margin of error in my job – Anne Mordi

Once there was a lady on the track, I thought it could be a staff member working on the tracks ahead but then I realised it wasn’t when I saw she was naked - Anne Mordi

Naming the Unnameable: A Memorial For Ebereonwu

The story of Ebereonwu who was born as Paul Obinali Ebereonwu is one that reads like a classic legend. It is the story of a young man who sought to conquer the world by pursuing his professional interest in remarkable ways...

Naming the Unnameable: A Memorial For Ebereonwu

The story of Ebereonwu who was born as Paul Obinali Ebereonwu is one that reads like a classic legend. It is the story of a young man who sought to conquer the world by pursuing his professional interest in remarkable ways...

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How We Destroyed Mike Tyson

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Zik's Remembrance

A government that entertains directives, unsolicited advice from foreign governments and individuals creates the impression that it is weak and compromising. Nigerians do not go out of their way to meddle in the internal political affairs of other states...

This Government And The Leadership Newspapers

The tension between the Press and the government has hypertrophied to the point that neither is acting in the public interest. It is time for these two adversaries to discuss the patterns of behavior creating such rancor and frustration...

Meanings Africans Attach To A Name

African names have metamorphosed from epic to modern, and now to European. African languages are also on the verge of extinction, if not already in oblivion...

Not In Our Character?

The late General Sani Abacha was one bloody former...

Emphasis on Remedial Approach to the Neglect of Penal Technique Method in the Enforcement of Environmental Laws in Nigeria

The technology involved in extracting crude from oil wells, the process of refining, the myriad of pipes interlacing each other through which the refined oil are transported to various depots, the combustible nature of refined oil, the possibility of spill, are what make up-stream and down-stream activities hazardous to both animate and inanimate objects within a given environment...

The Last Christmas As Governor Fayemi

This Christmas is the last that Governor Kayode Fayemi...

My Niger-Delta: A Marshall or Master plan?

There is almost nothing anybody can do now about the imbalance that all the years of oil exploration and exploitation has exacted on the ecosystem of the Niger Delta and on her peoples. The only surviving paw-paw tree behind our house in the village just withered and died, just like that...

Oyedepo’s Antithetical Beautiful Gift to Buhari!

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion” —...

Power-Rich, Progress-Poor: The Tragic Story of Ika Land!

Over the past four decades, Ika land—one of the...