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Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Do not pity President Tinubu

“We have corruption, insecurity, and many problems confronting us … but don’t pity me. I asked for the job. I campaigned for it. No...

How long can Nigeria go under Tinubu?

I have always been fascinated by a phrase in the marital vows of Christians during wedding rituals: “till death do us part”! My candid...

Soludo and the Made-in-Anambra Work Ethic

There is palpable fear amongst the serious commentariat in addressing relevant issues because most of the viral news attributed to esteemed personages may have...

2023 Power Shift: A Greek Gift? (Part 1)

The airwaves have been inundated with the call for a power shift from the North to the South even though zoning and rotation are...

10years after, confusion reigns over N19.9billion Mbora Abuja Development Contract

Jabi Abuja Airport Road presents very beautiful scenery. What makes the environment beautiful are the ornamental flowers which deck both sides of the road,...

The Loneliness of the Expired President

It’s not only drugs that expire; presidents also expire. There are expired drugs and there are expired presidents. You can quote me on this...

Dreams of Breaking up

He took me to a high mountain. He pointed towards the horizon. I saw it before he could utter a word. It was a...

2023 Elections: Nigerians beware, and be warned

The day is fast approaching; sliding fast like running water escaping from a wedge and nothing can stop it at its present rush. Anything...

Buhari: Journey so far

Precisely seven years ago, the APC came into power amid pomp, pageantry and great expectations. Nigerians believed that at last, we have gotten a...

Osun APC and the lyrics of reconciliation

The National Reconciliation Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came to Osun State, recently, in a long-overdue effort to reconcile aggrieved members of...

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Secession: If The East Goes, The West Won’t Go!

As the quest for secession by several ethnic groups...

Where are the other Iboris?

Mention the name James Onanefe Ibori and many different emotions and impressions flood the Nigerian mind. The man is seen as a personification of arrogance and avarice. He’s perceived as an embodiment of the worst in the Nigerian “misruling” class...

A Tribute To Tunji Braithwaite (1933 – 2016)

Tunji O! Tunji O! The socio-cratic revolution is just...

A-Z of Delta State Sorry Story!

Ibori was an avowed disciple of Abacha. He was one of the Abacha boys in that dark age of our national life. That has been said already. But we make haste to say here: like Abacha, like Ibori!

Speaking Truth to Power: Giving President Yar’Adua an Opportunity to Govern in the Autumn

I see in the many government actions or inactions rarely any capacity for straightforwardness, directness or transparency.  For it appears it is congenitally incapable of being frank, clear or assertive...

Port Harcourt Waterfronts Raze: Unanswered Questions?

The resistance to waterfront demolition has always existed on the part of different groups working independently, the authorities giving practically no response as the resistances remained low key because of waterfront dwellers’ difficulties in waging a continuous fight..

What Are You Thinking?

Don’t envy every rich man or anticipate being like all. Not all wealthy men should be role models,  because many of them acquired their wealth by infringing on the rights of  other people. It is not wealth when you debased the integrity of the other person to skyrocket...

Obu Udeozo’s Cyclone: Painting History on the Canvass of Scientific Whirlwinds

Cyclone by Obu Udeozo; Fab Educational Books, Jos; 316pp The...