Man & Woman

Woman As The Pearl Of Valentine

There’s no better way to give proper attention to Valentine’s Day than celebrating the essence of womanhood. It is incumbent on me to deliver knockout...

Oni, BAO and the mathematics of alignment

The recent realignment in the UK - where figures like Robert Jenrick are “uniting the right” - proves the “defection bug” is no longer...

Osun APC, Tinubu’s hand and the Ides of March

Ahead of the 2026 Osun governorship election, it is incontrovertible that a consensus candidate has been chosen for the All Progressives Congress (APC). He...

Jonathan + Sambo: Has the arithmetic been solved?

The reason President Goodluck Jonathan chose Facebook to declare his intention for the 2011 presidential elections in Nigeria is yet to be known...

Can a bloody revolution take place in Nigeria?

If all it takes for violent social change to take place in a society is a surfeit of anger and outrage by the citizens, arising mainly from poverty and inequality, Nigeria would have long witnessed one...

Who kidnapped Lota Ezeudu?

On the evening of September 26, 2009, Bona Ezeudu and his wife, Ngozi, found themselves enveloped by a terrible fog that has yet to lift. The couple’s nightmare came by way of the startling discovery that their only son had been kidnapped...

Putting Service Into Into Nigeria Politics!

The Federal government has embarked on the task of reforms in the electoral system, politics and the anti-corruption commission, with an aim to rid politics of corruption...

Medical Love: Distraction or Motivation?

I made a vow that although my mind belongs entirely to the clinical laboratory, my heart should not. The reason is simple – I don’t want to mix love with work...

The Paedophiles in our midst

It was reported that Sani Yerima had been married and divorced many times in order to marry younger women...

Homophobia in Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi ond Over-sexed South Africa

Why is it so important for Nigeria, Uganda, and now Malawi to squander public resources in the repression of homosexual and lesbian citizens within these African nations?

Gender Equality and Women’s Rights 100 Years On

Women are frequently denied the opportunities to be allocators and managers of resources. Women are too often denied opportunities to be facilitators and accelerators of human development...

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The first-ever globally consistent survey commissioned by the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership has established that the African continent’s efforts to reduce gas flaring are succeeding...

Referendums and Metaphors on Nigeria?

Why are some Nigerians at some sort of permanent loggerheads with fellow Nigerians, and yet, these same Nigerians seem to hold on, tenaciously to every whimper about Nigeria by some nitwit foreigner?

Rivers’ Poverty Enhancement Programme

The government should always reach an understanding and operational guidelines with the people in all its endeavours instead of operating largely without recourse to set rules...

7 Creative questions for self discovery

Efficiency and effectiveness are products of specialization. You can delegate your weakness and focus on your strength. Always be the best in what you can do better!

Daunting state of education in Northern Nigeria

By Isah Aliyu Chiroma “Education is the passport to the...

Lekki-Epe Expressway Toll Palaver– government versus people

The raging controversy over the erection and collection of tolls on the yet-to-be completed Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos State, Nigeria is a classic example of the consequences of dearth of communication between the government and the governed...

Abia Needs, Bad Governance Media Tour

The Good Governance Media Tour under the leadership of Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has come to Abia State and gone, but the dust raised is yet to settle...

The Africans Of My Youth

Forgive me if I profusely effuse over the Africans of my youth. Forgive me if I sound too nostalgic. Forgive me I idolize them and idealize a time that once was, but now seem to be on the passing...

Kalu, T.A. Orji and the MASSOB Curse

What our people have come to endure in Gov. Orji’s government are multiple taxations, intimidation by security agents and gross dilapidated infrastructure that cut across all the areas in the state...

What I Learnt From Dalhatu Bayero

Bayero’s successor as NNPC GMD, Gaius-Obaseki, became entangled in a controversy over a N500m hotel bill which he allegedly incurred at Abuja Hilton. In asserting how prudent he had been to incur such a “low bill”, Obaseki reportedly claimed to be the cheapest GMD NNPC ever had! I laughed...