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...

Audit Reporting Mission from Lagos to Awka

There was an invasion of Awka, the capital of Anambra State, by a troika of Nigeria’s savviest journalists, and another guru served as a...

Unbeatable Legends of Nigerian Political Juggernauts

Nigerian politicians of the present day are so boring that no high-tension stories can be written about them. These politicians of nowadays cannot brew myths...

Like The Queen, Like Zik Of Africa

I am yet to learn Queen’s English and now they have changed to King’s English. The Queen is dead; long live the King! The burial of...

The Most Impossible Article Ever Written

The most challenging article ever written by me was published in Time magazine. It was one of the many friends of mine who had been...

Sam Omatseye As A Kept Man

I had an extravagance of laughter when a dear friend of mine showed me a so-called column written by Sam Omatseye. To give him his...

The Oldest Man In The World Is A Nigerian

The white man can never get tired of discovering something. Ever since Mungo Park discovered the River Niger, every white man flies into Nigeria with...

A Toast To Mandela Garden In Nigeria

The Mandela Garden and Suites in Asaba can arrest all tourists with exquisite panache and sublime aesthetics. The celebrated citizen of the world, Chimamanda Ngozi...

Winners Emerge ln Mandela Gardens & Lodge Spelling Bee Competition

Royal Miral College and Epic Nursery/Primary School are the winners of the Nelson Mandela Gardens and Lodges Spelling Bee competition 2022. The two schools defeated...

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Reviewing Rochas Okorocha’s Free Education Policy in Imo

Not a few people doubted the practicability of implementing free education in Imo State when Owelle Rochas Okorocha made it the head stone of his gubernatorial campaign in the historic quest for Imo governorship in 2011. Quite a number of well grounded reasons informed this skepticism...

Can You Cope With A Long-Distance Relationship?

There are two kinds of relationships we talk about: those who are married, and those who've made a commitment to each other to love and to hold but circumstances make it difficult for them to physically have and hold...

Nigerian Revenue: In Public Or Private Pockets?

We are a very poor country that is heavily indebted to other nations and overseas lending institutions! And we may get poorer if corruption is not controlled...

Ibadan: A Coliseum of Warlords

Unrepentantly, Ibadan indigenes still mourn with curious nostalgia the inner valour and natural rascality of Chief Lamidi Adedibu. But, the fire, this time, if it ever burns in Ibadan, will peel away Adedibu's violent legacy like a Gentile's foreskin in a Jewish sauna bath...

Amaechi’s Excuse For A New Jet: Black Man With ‘Black’ Brain

Nigerians have been asking for an explanation why a governor of any state in Nigeria would need a private jet. Some have said that by Amaechi’s rapacious statement, their love for him is dwindling...

Awolowo’s Evergreen Words on Marble

The words of the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, are...

Oyebamiji: In Our Best Interest?

By Olanrewaju Iyunade ​In developing democracies, public officials constantly face...

Niger Delta Crisis: Some Encouraging Words From Yar’Adua

Recent statements by President Yar’Adua sound promising and hopeful. But even if he means what he says, these are just the first steps in a thousand miles journey...

Gen. Ibrahim Babangida “Writes” Nigerians!

My 2011 presidential enterprise is on and no one will persuade me to drop the idea of ruling this great nation again as a democratically-elected President - one that is not associated with tanks and guns...

The Game Of The Masters

Mischief makers claim that IBB and OBJ may still be seeking to cash in or make good on bets which they may have made years ago over a game of draught, on who will be the longest serving Head of State in Nigeria - in or out of uniform...