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...

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...

Journalists fighting Journalism

By the time you read this, my guess is that the FFK gaff would have simmered and we would have moved on. When things...

Apotheosis of Ironsi

Ironsi – Nigeria, The Army, Power and Politics by Chuks Iloegbunam; Eminent Biographies (EB), Awka, Nigeria; 2019; 298pp There is an almost general acknowledgment that...

Let this be the Year you Really COMMIT to a New Year Resolution!

It’s 2020, a new year and a new decade. You spent the latter part of last year putting together a list of New Year...

Of Michael Bloomberg and Michael Faborode

What is it that Michael Bloomberg knows that Michael Faborode does not know? Michael Bloomberg is the world's 9th richest man and Faborode  served as 9th Vice...

Of Michael Faraday, Obafemi Awolowo and Michael Faborode

Michael Faraday and  Michael Faborode were born on September 22  1791  and  1956  respectively. Faraday, a British Chemist, Physicist and Forerunner of the electrical Engineering Profession...

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Royal Baby

There was nothing funny about a bloodied up grown man weeping hysterically in public, and complaining to whoever cared to listen that they robbed him of the 10,000 naira he wanted to use to fly to London to see the royal baby...

Don’t Envy Lekki Residents, Pity Them

For residents of some Lekki Phase 1 streets, it is sorrow all the way as the roads become impassable...

China as Friend and Partner to Africa

China invests wads and wads of Dollars in America. China in effect underwrites a great deal of American public debt. Why then is it that America does not tell China to go stuff her dollars elsewhere because of her infamous record on democracy and human rights?

The United Nations Organization and Failed World Leaders: Juridical Responsibility for Failed State Syndrome

There are immediate and compelling reasons why the United Nations Organization, though very ineffective in regulating world crisis, should review its domestic jurisdiction clause...

Nigeria’s Economic Greatness: Possibilities and Opportunity In Waste!

Once again an already fragile national consciousness has been rattled, this time by the blunt remarks of some "right wing" politicians that describe this nation as “hopeless dean" habouring the lives of people with  conspicuous affluence...

The Twilight Hours or a Journey Begun

In a state of animated shock, I stared at my surroundings. I was in a hospital ward, So I had recovered from the anesthesia. I remembered being wheeled into the operating room...

A Nation Grapples with Uncertainty: Revisiting the Debate between a Rerun and a Reset

As the gavel of Nigeria’s Presidential Elections Petition Tribunal...

State of a Failed Nation (1)

Today, we have to pull and push Nigeria on...

Which gods must be appeased?

British colonialism built roads, established networks of communications, and established bureaucratic jobs that encouraged – or forced – people to wander outside their immediate natal addresses. Yet, wherever they went within Nigeria, the compass for these half-hearted Nigerians remained pointed towards that home...

Moslem in America

The anti-American protest in kano which was brought in vivid colour to American sitting rooms as well as the fact that the Nigerian Ambassador to America is also a Muslim have somewhat combined to place Nigeria right in the middle of the changing face of Islam in America.