Miscellaneous

The Death Penalty For Fakers And Forgers

A dangerous, corrosive wind of fakery, forgery, and identity misrepresentation is currently hovering over Nigeria, threatening to tear down the country's moral, institutional, and...

Bart Nnaji, Okey Ndibe & African Commentary Magazine

“Publishing is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.” -...

Akin Ogunbiyi: 64 years of quiet conviction

Saturday, September 12, was a special day for the family, friends, and well-wishers of Dr. Akinade Akanmu Ogunbiyi, as the charming leader marked the...

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...

Open Letter to Gov. Nyesom Wike: The Need for Reflection and Action

Dear Excellency, this curfew extension is only a cosmetic arrangement. We are no longer in a Lockdown. It is time to show the investments...

A New Offering from a Luminous Mind

Whether as a counsel in Court or as an advisor or as a maker of a legal document or instrument covering relationships, social or...

Agbodike: The Personable Politician In Anambra

I instantly fell in love with the house I got into by accident. A house becomes a home when the host makes everyone feel at...

What In Hell Is Odogwu Doing In Lagos?

Odogwu came on transfer to Lagos from Enugu, and put up in the apartment of his writer friend, Muritala Sule, in Surulere. His plan was...

The Work of a Press Secretary: A book review

Title: The Work of a Press Secretary Author: Burkard Weth, formerly press attaché German Embassy Nigeria. Publisher: Shaker Media Germany Year of Publication: 2019 Number of Pages: 58 ISBN:...

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Nigeria: Campaigns of Religion and Ethnicity

Politics is the soul of leadership and the art...

The Hope That Must Be Worked for – Peace and Security

Nigeria being the giant of Africa, has a role to play alongside US and the international community in restoring peace, economic, political and sociological growth in Africa and the rest of the world...

Where Are We Now?

It is easy for us to turn our face and keep quiet when injustice is being visited on other people. If someone is being kicked to death outside our doors it is easy to turn the volume of the TV up and pretend not to hear the victim’s cry...

Igbo Music: Where Are The Gongs And Flutes?

When highlife ruled the airwaves in Nigeria in the past decades, voices of Igbo musicians and others of south East extraction added to its popularity. But in the burgeoning contemporary music scene in Nigeria, the distinct voice of Igbo music has become muffled...

‘One Nigeria’: To Be Or Not To Be? (3)

The only way to put a stop to the squandering of our resources is to break away from the North and concentrate all our resources exclusively on our own development...

Fixing Murtala Mohammed “Air-Nightmare”

Nothing best exemplifies the state of Nigeria’s leadership than the dilapidating state of the gateway to the nation, the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja. An airport that sits strategically as not only a possible gateway to Nigeria, but West Africa as well as the rest of the World...

Still on Osun and the election that was!  (2)

In its natural, neutral and humane form, politics ought...

Obasanjo, Etteh and the PDP

Even though the president has repeatedly stated his zero tolerance for corruption, his immediate predecessor’s support for known corrupt political figures in the present dispensation might be his greatest problem...

Can Tinubu Deliver Nigeria?

Many Nigerians pray fervently that the Buhari prediction –...

What if Ribadu Leaves the EFCC?

One can hardly hold such an office as Ribadu has held for the past five years, without stepping on some “powerful” toes big time...