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...

This Is the Age of the Cow

I am sorry for any Nigerian who cannot speak the language of the cow. In truth, I am daily mastering cow language, and you do...

All that Jazz about Stingy Men’s Association of Nigeria

I have just been consulted to become the National Grand Patron of the newly formed Stingy Men’s Association of Nigeria (SMAN). Of course, I promptly...

Sending off “Sendforth”

The holler of “Happy New Year” is all over the place as the world is sending off the worst of years, that is, 2020,...

Political Comedy Is Sweeter Than Sugar

Let’s take a trip away from the many tragedies of Nigeria to the hypertension-curing subject of political comedy. Political comedy is sweeter than Dangote sugar...

Alhaji Abdulazeez Ude @ 80: Meeting My Mentor

It was impossible believing what my eyes were seeing. I did a double take because it’s not every day one sees a great masquerade walking...

Mcphilips Nwachukwu: Seven Years Without My Father

Dads play important roles in every step their children take. They are like warriors who will fight battles for the sake of their children’s...

How To Wake A 60-Year-Old Sleeping Giant

A sleeping giant is a bad sight to behold. Nigeria happens to be widely acknowledged as the Giant of Africa. China used to be the apt...

Who Wrote Things Fall Apart?

It all started at the local secondary school in Ndiorumbe when the literature teacher, Holy Nwankpi, asked his students: “Who wrote Things Fall Apart?” The...

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The Genius that is Olusegun Obasanjo

Can anyone think of Nigeria in the last thirty-five years or so without Obasanjo? He is the custodian of political-goodies, the man with both raw and refined power and unbridled influence...

Avoiding the pitfalls of relying on renewable energy

One thing that Nigerians have always wished for and never got in the past decade is steady power supply. Governments before and after now grappled with the problem but nobody has come up with the panacea to that seemingly intractable problem...

Technological Advancements threaten the Future of Newspapers

A decade ago, the amount of digital and online publishing driven by profit and consumerism was relatively small. Today, over 80% of all hard copy publications have online and digital versions. Ten years from now, that percentage may rise to 100...

Ruth leaves her Root for the Root of Jesse 1: Steadfastness and Vision!

When both Ruth and Orpah left Moab with Naomi for Canaan, little did Ruth know that hers was an eternal step with God she was taking, whilst Orpah couldn’t see that she was returning to eternal damnation...

Away With Foreign Coaches!

The man who became the Nigerian coach was a successful failure. Quite unlike Shuaibu Amodu, Lars Lagerback could not qualify his country, Sweden, for the World Cup. He and his managers took advantage of our unreasonable clamour for a foreign coach...

Scholar, Bryan Clayton Chitwood, Interviews The Poet

By Bryan Clayton Chitwood First question: Could you tell me...

Etim Esin and his 100 Million Naira Okocha 'Project'!

Like millions of soccer-loving Nigerians at home and abroad I have been following with rapt attention the off-the-pitch "unfriendly match" involving two retired football greats, Austin 'Jay Jay' Okocha and Etim 'Maradona' Esin...

Trump: What America told us

Less than five months after the Brexit referendum resulted...

APC, Start Governing, Not Whining

Last week, I suggested that President Muhammadu Buhari has...

There is no ‘Insecurity’ in Nigeria

Nigeria has recently been voted as one of the...