Miscellaneous

A Hospital For Chima Ubani

In this sad season in Nigeria I got filled with so much joy when the news reached my end that Abia State Governor, Dr...

The Insult That Led to the Creation of Osun State

Osun State was created thirty-five years ago, but what if I told you the state was born, indirectly, from an insult. Yes, really. In 1945, Chief...

Nigerian Style Of Football

We played the game. It entailed any number of men or women running about kicking any roundish object. We had no special name for...

Dame Patience Jonathan Is Our Man

There is so much talk over the political airwaves of a possible return of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to the seat of power in...

Analyzing the Stages of Booze in Nigeria

“Stage One – The Mood Jocose. Stage Two – The Mood Morose. Stage Three – The Mood Bellicose. Stage Four – The Mood Lachrymose. Stage Five – The...

Celebrating Prof. Afam Icha-Ituma, A Dynamic Leader at 47

By Maxim Uzoatu & Collins Azu Professor Afam Icha-Ituma, Vice-Chancellor of Coal City University, Enugu, Nigeria, turned 47 years on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. He...

Tough Guys Write Poetry

It’s the first night of our honeymoon but I hardly thought of my wife and me as I spent the hours thinking of another...

Borojah’s Law

“Shock your wife!” I am only reiterating the law handed down to me by Borojah, a rambunctious neighbour of mine who claims to be a...

There Was A Newspaper Called NEXT

Nigeria is the burial ground of big dreams. Dele Olojede brought great honour to Nigeria by winning the coveted Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in...

Of Lagos Gentlemen and Abuja Patriots

There is a sign that'll confront an African hunter setting off for the night's job in a distant forest and he'll call off the...

The Ultimate Lagos Big Boy

He called himself the Ultimate Lagos Big Boy. Some called him Owo Lagba, that is, Money Power, while some others preferred to call him Lagos...

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Igbos Of Delta State And Crisis Of Identity (Conclusion)

An Igbo man once asked me in London whether I am a Yoruba man, that my surname looks like one. I just laughed and politely asked the man to pronounce my name. He ended up pronouncing it with all the Igbo-ness and accent which goes with it...

Are the Meek Inheriting The Earth in Nigeria?

In Nigeria today, the standard that established what is good or bad has been replaced by get-rich-quick syndrome – at all cost. These days, many Christians have abandoned the "Old churches" that have failed to adjust to the new trend of posterity teachings...

For Nigeria's Sake…

I have believed from my very young days that our country, Nigeria, is the cornerstone of God's ultimate agenda for the black race...

The United Nations and Contemporary World Society: Kuomi Duka!

I will certainly drink a glassful of ale if and when Nigeria becomes a member of the United Nations Security Council in no distant future...

Ogboru’s Lincoln Argument and Otive Igbuzor

It’s strongly alleged that Great Ogboru wants to contest the 2015 guber election in Delta. For a man who has hitherto contested severally, got the people’s mandate all such times but in each case failed to get it right in the end, it is no wonder that tongues are now wagging...

Nigeria: A tale of three generations

I will like to make it clear that I am firmly convinced that there is nothing wrong with Nigeria that cannot be cured; all we need is the personal courage to make eye contact with reality, regardless of what it looks like, and to have the collective ability to live with the consequences of our actions and inactions...

Senator Akpabio and NDDC Scavengers

A few days ago, some youth groups in the...

Patriotism and Dora Akunyili’s Squealers

It takes a sophisticated degree of disingenuousness for anybody to refuse to understand that the greatest impediment to the Nigerian brand – if there is any - is the Nigerian state symbolized by the Federal Government and Aso Rock...

Dear Bishop Oyedepo…

The main purpose of this write-up is to analyse the aim of the purported visit to ailing President Yar’adua by Bishop Oyedepo and some other clerics...

Sadiq Khan has Made History In the United Kingdom

The recent electoral victory of Sadiq Khan in London,...