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...

Suspension: In Support of Mr. President

Mr. President has done well for our country. Before he came to power, the country was disingenuously gravitating towards fascism, the type that would...

Ibrahim Traoré: Africa’s Unapologetic Revolutionary Or A Dangerous Gamble?

In an era where African leaders are often seen as mere puppets of Western interests, Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traoré is charting a radically...

Traditional Priests or Bloodthirsty Frauds? Time to Cleanse the Shrines!

Nigeria’s traditional religious institutions are under siege—not from outsiders, but from within. The disturbing surge in ritual killings has cast a dark shadow over...

Contemporary Nigerian Heroes

By IfeanyiChukwu Afuba Amidst the nightmare that daily life has become for majority of Nigerians, oases of personal and group example continue to come to...

When Will Trump Renovate the White House?

Shortly after his election as president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu announced that he had suspended payments on fuel subsidies. Once that announcement was made,...

My Helicopter Flight Into Near Death 

I have been in more deadly dangers in my journalistic travails than a suicide bomber. When I look back, I can only wonder and laugh...

Nigeria’s Flourishing Fake Industries

Identifying squalid conditions in any society consistently is a humanitarian job that deserves divine compensation. Such conditions could be in the corridors of power,...

A Christmas of Tears: Hunger and Hardship Overshadow Festivities In Nigeria

As Christmas dawns across Nigeria, the warmth and unity of the season have been replaced by cold reality and despair. According to the National...

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On, The Strong Breed

Soyinka is Africa’s legendary intellectual but never before has he himself documented such large claims for his moral pre-eminence, his exemplary fulfilment of the intellectual’s mission in the African society as its representative, its curator of memory, its specialist of consciousness, and its looming conscience...

We Can Do Better

For over five decades, the Nigerian nation has been...

Wike's Cheering Re-election Campaign Team For Amaechi

With Wike, there is no how anybody loyal to Omehia or Odili can outrun Amaechi in the 2011 elections in Rivers State, as they concern grassroots campaign and mobilisation of registered voters to vote for Amaechi...

The Ongoing Destruction Of Ijaw Land

At the aftermath of the unprovoked attack on Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu kingdom of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State the Ijaw nation wishes to state with emphatic unequivocation the following...

Princewill’s Political Seriousness

In Igbo, we say that a child erroneously calls a male friend of his or her mother the concubine, forgetting that not all male friends to a woman are her concubine, and not all female friends to a man are his mistress...

…Ember Month Journey: Which Road Is Safe?

Poorly maintained roads in Nigeria are often cited as a cause for the country’s high rate of traffic fatalities. Nigeria’s bad roads aren’t just a matter of inconvenience. They also contribute to the country’s high accident and fatality rate...

Death In The Force: What Is Killing Our Officers?

The challenges facing an average Nigerian police officer is enormous. In addition to collective problems, he or she is expected to stop bullets with nothing but tattered uniforms...

Let God Make Your Christmas List This Year

Over time, the original motivation behind offering and receiving gifts at Christmas has changed and in most cases, lost in the euphoria of expectations and demands...

A Case for Renewable Energy

The now commonplace rhetoric about sustainability and climate change re-emphasizes the need to be more responsible about the future and generations to come...

Obama’s Senate, Soldiers-Horses mating and New World Order!

The year 2011 closed with the gruesome issue of same-sex marriage. Obama and the West were poised to horn down Africa for not going insane with them...