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,...

Wole Olanipekun and the Cartography of Compassion

“Salus populi suprema lex esto” -    Cicero The commissioning of The Wole Olanipekun Senate Building at the Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology (BOUESTI),...

Unstoppable Ngozi Wahala

It’s not for nothing that she is fondly referred to as Ngozi Wahala in many enlightened quarters. Truth is they no longer make women like...

General Yakubu Gowon: Nonagenarian Prayer Warrior

Nigeria as a nation famously obtained independence on October 1st, 1960, and attained a republican status three years after in 1963, the foundation for...

Day Onyeka Onwenu Came For The Kill

The sonorous songstress Onyeka Onwenu has just passed, but my duty here is to add the human angle to the legend of the goddess. Onyeka...

Akinyemi: Farewell to the matriarch we have lost!

On Saturday, August 3, 2024, the funeral service for the late Mrs. Aderoju Janet Akinyemi will take place at the Cathedral Church of St....

My Guru Tam Fiofori Departs

Sad news hit me hard on Tuesday, June 25, in this year of Our Lord – my inimitable guru Tam Fiofori passed away. Tam was...

My Teacher Kongi Strikes 90

When I broke the world exclusive news of Nobel Laureate publishing his latest novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth,...

Odili Ujubuonu: 60 Years of Magic and Memorable Aesthetics

Odili Ujubuonu is a Renaissance man, that is, he is among those rare beings who have their hands and grey matter in diverse pies....

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Unfulfilled Promises to Light Up Benin City’s Airport Road

Years of neglect of the lighting-up project of airport...

Yar’Adua-Jonathan Political Muddle: What Lies Ahead?

Since Yar’Adua took ill, a lot of developments, positive and negative have been elbowing the Nigerian political quadrangle...

Olusegun Obasanjo and Paul Adujie: The Spoofed Conversation

When it comes to matters relating to President Obasanjo, my very good friend Paul Adujie irritates me. He gets on my nerves. He does! To him, Obasanjo can do no wrong even when the president is clearly wrong in his pronouncements, deeds and inaction...

Gender Inequality; Western Civilization, and the Future We Never Bargained For

Traditionally, people tend to grapple with the concept of gender inequality as it concerns the man's attempt at lording it over women...

United Nations: The Failure of Man-made gods

What God has promised to do on earth since Creation, He has dutifully been doing and HE will continue to do, till time indefinite. The man-made gods of earth, politicians, bankers, false prophets, seers, witches and wizards, occultists, magicians, evil men, war-mongers have proved incapable of creating the atmosphere for abundant life on earth...

Gaddafi has the right to offend me

By now many of those with their ears to the ground will have heard this song: Divide Nigeria in two, according to religious lines. This statement was Mr Gaddafi's recent unsolicited solution to conflicts in Nigeria...

Corruption In Nigeria

In view of the penchant of most people in elective offices and sensitive positions in our public offices to amass wealth and the huge amounts of money usually involved in such official corruption and scam, caution should always be exercised in appointing heads of anti-graft agencies...

A Day in Life

I dash to the kitchen. Too late, the soup’s turned into a thick dark paste. That will be the second in three weeks! So much waste in one day...

When A Woman Loves A Man

One of the greatest motivations a guy can experience is the assurance of a woman's love. It can inspire poems of the avante garde genre. She may hide it as long as she can but her voice, her eyes and actions would betray her no sooner...

Oil Has Stained Nigerian Economy, Grey!

At less than 1%, the share of manufacturing in Nigeria's exports is minuscule. Most industries are struggling to survive, with capacity utilization in manufacturing down from 64% in December 2007 to about 98% in the first half of 2008...