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,...

Basil Umeozulu: The Amesi Tree That Made The Forest

There is the popular proverb that goes thus: “A tree cannot make a forest.” I write here to refute that proverb because I witnessed...

Benedict XVI: Counting our losses!

On January 26, 1998, I authored an article, entitled ‘Lessons from the Dead’, in one of Nigeria’s foremost newspapers. In the piece, I attempted...

Poet of the People: Niyi Osundare

Poets from all over the world today do not come any loftier than Nigeria’s Niyi Osundare. In my book, he is the next poet...

November 16 Belongs To Chinua Achebe

November 16 belongs to one man who conquered the world for Mother Africa. In the words of the great Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiongo,...

The Nigerian Catholic Priest Challenging Stereotypes of African Medicine

Adodo Anselm Gbenga is a Nigerian scholar who is a pioneer of Alternative medicine in Africa. He is also a Benedictine monk and priest...

Quinquagenarian: Ernest Ohanugo – Servant and Savant

You can achieve anything you put your mind to, the world is here to conquer... DORIS OHANUGO The month of November graciously stands out as...

Owolabi: Murdered in Nigeria, Buried in America

One of the greatest shortcomings of Nigeria’s existence is that she has never evolved into a nation. The amalgamation of territories, imposition of the...

Sixty Songs for Igwebike Ifeanyi Mbanefo

Today belongs to the song of solitude. The date belongs to Ifeanyi Igwebike Mbanefo, a son of Obosi town in present-day Anambra State, who...

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Nigerian Democracy is Dead!

It is time to view Nigeria as it really is. Far from demonstrating any robust gains from our democracy, we have, on the contrary, reaped broken hope, stalled vision, economic disarray, empty rhetoric and comatose nation building projects...

What’s Nigeria’s Real Cancer?

Nigeria’s worst affliction isn’t just corruption or bad governance—it’s...

Nigeria: Path to a New Beginning

Nations are  not exactly run like business enterprise or interest specific organizations. Yet, strategy that are employ by business/organization to ensure success and growth could be applied to  government at all level to ensure overall improvement and  efficiency...

Nigeria, Nigerians and the Scam E-mails

People in the West are greedy and blinded by the prospect of easy money; and this explains why they fall easy prey to fraudsters. Why don’t other Nigerians fall for them?

Obama’s Success in the US and Lessons for Ndigbo in Nigeria

When we see an old woman stop her dance to point again and again in the same direction, we can be sure that somewhere there something happened long ago which touched the roots of her life. Something is happening in America that should touch the roots of Ndigbo in Nigeria...

If President Yar’Adua Dies

What happens if the President dies? Constitutionally, Vice President Jonathan Goodluck takes over. But it is not as simple as that...

Kalu, EFCC And The Re-branding Project

The EFCC is bloated everyday with the hard earned name of Kalu brought to disrepute. The EFCC always uses wide coverage by the media to impress Nigerians while molesting Kalu. Today, many Nigerians are not impressed...

Tola Adeniyi: A life of words and wisdom

"Wisdom is the supreme virtue, for it is the...

Diran Odeyemi: Alao-Akala’s Special Corruption Conduit

In this piece, I will strive to bring Odeyemi, the Special Adviser to Oyo State governor Alao-Akala on Special Duties, back to the issues. I can play the personal attack card too, but this is neither the place, nor is it the time for it. And quite frankly, there is no personality in Odeyemi for me to attack...

What We Don’t Understand About “No”

Self esteem plays a lot into so many things in life. It plays a much larger role than we care to admit. It exacerbates many other emotions that might more readily be kept under control with sound reasoning...