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...

Plagiarizing My Soccer Report

Somebody has called my attention to a terrible plagiarism of my work by one Samuel Ifeanyi Onwuachuke who described himself as a “self meida...

Looted Artefacts Are The Cultural Heritage Of The Benin Kingdom

By His Royal Majesty Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin -------- You may also have heard about the recent activities of a group of...

Come to Benin City Window on America, improve your chances of studying in the United States

In an ‘Open letter to America’s Secretary of State, John Kerry, American Corner Come to Edo-Delta’, in March 2015, I had said that ‘materials...

Musings on the Future of the World

There are a good few stories about human beings that have philosophical and aesthetical appeal. Like every aspect of the universe, the earth and...

If You Want To Write A Great Book, Go To Prison

I am allergic to dictators, even if they somehow manage to dress up in democratic robes. Nigerians cannot ever forget in a hurry how some...

Making Nigeria Work According To Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

For The Good Of The Nation – Essays And Perspectives By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi; ALFA Books, Ikoyi, Lagos; 2021; 509pp   Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former Governor...

I Don’t Drink Bottles; I Drink Beer!

The party is heavy, but the beer is even heavier. In the present tense of liquor, it’s a rollicking night of highs and higher highs...

Traditional Rulers and Vistas of Opportunities for Nigerian Unity

By HRM OMO N’OBA N’EDO UKU AKPOLOKPOLO EWUARE II It gives me great pleasure to welcome Your Royal Highness, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero and your...

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Who Will “History” Honor?

Obasanjo by virtue of history and opportunity should stand tall among all Nigerian past leaders if he did right by the people...

Mutallab: A tragic Example of Poor Parenting

Sending young people barely old enough to tie their shoe laces away from home to an alien culture and strange environment where they are opened to all forms of associations and manipulations can have deadly consequences...

A Dream Sculpted From The Pulpit

Has Reverend Okotie demonstrated his possession of a political soul?

CKC, Onitsha: An Incubator of National Prosperity

By Dr Ray Emeka Onwuelo Christ the King College (CKC),...

Are Coups in Africa Still Good A Thing?

Just as ECOWAS is about to send a military...

Ground-breaking and Commissioning– A Wasteful Phenomenon and Culture

“Ground-breaking, also known as cutting, sod-cutting, turning the first...

Oliver Mbamara: From “This America” to “Slave Warrior”

Oliver Mbamara’s self-produced movies are doing well in the...

Between state governors, Aganga and the sovereign wealth fund

The call by the Central Bank to keep some of our foreign reserve in Chinese currency is a wise decision not necessarily because of the fear of the weakening dollar but for investment reasons...

Betrayers

Persons have oftentimes been betrayed by those that they held in high esteem. Relationships between friends, wives and husbands, parents and children have always been battered on the altar of betrayal...

Shaping a new national character

In today’s international system, the concept of national character is one of the definitive, critical criteria being applied in according a nation-state such as Nigeria, due respect. More so, the notion remains a subject of historical, socio-political debate and development at different forums...