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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...

First In Class of Education and Leadership

Unhappy is the country whose leader is not properly educated. Going to school is a matter of urgent national importance unless Nigerians want to submit...

Forensic Audit: A Test of Buhari’s Integrity

The battle lines were drawn, the drums of war drowning the initial applause that greeted the order for the financial probe of the corruption...

Unfulfilled Promises to Light Up Benin City’s Airport Road

Years of neglect of the lighting-up project of airport road, a long stretch of road with large traction of socioeconomic activities at the heart...

No Permanent Enemy in Nigerian Politics

It was a roll call of Nigeria's most powerful political elites during the wedding of Yusuf Buhari, son of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, to...

Osun APC, Let Reason Prevail!

Let me start by making a categorical statement: this intervention is not aimed at apportioning blame to any of the factions, so to say, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) currently...

A Chapter of Wike’s Play Book

He has been very much around in the political terrain. His political savvy and ability to meander through the uncharted waters of the stillborn...

The Rise of the New Deadly Femmes Fatales

The new breed of femmes fatales is young, pretty – and they can kill you! The on-going case of Chidinma Ojukwu has gripped – and...

Governor Fayemi and the Bonding Ideal

The hot button in Nigeria today is to crow of secession. It does not matter if the jumped-up secessionist leader can in truth tell...

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The (Aborted) Meeting of the Igbo Political Forum

The recent blocking of a planned meeting of the Igbo Political Forum (IPF), which was to take place at the Banquet Hall of Hotel Concorde, Owerri, on Monday September 27, 2010, has generated headlines, editorials and condemnations...

The normalization of impunity

Last week, a twelve-person jury at the Southwark Crown Court in London convicted two Nigerian women on charges of facilitating extensive money laundering activities by former Governor James Onanefe Ibori of Delta State...

Importance of CPR In an Emergency Situation: Nigeria as a Case Study

Dear Sir, The Guardian publication of February 15, 2016 titled:...

Seeds of Discord

There is a chance that the coming elections could be peaceful. All those who have sown seeds of discord and laid eggs of destruction under the wings of the Electoral Act debacle will have to look for another way of hatching their eggs.

Challenges of the Presidential System of Government

This is a long essay on the challenges of...

Nigeria does not have insecurity problems

Are we indeed vulnerable individually and collectively? For me, if I am to respond to that question, I would do so first of all by juxtaposing and contextualising the idea of ‘insecurity’ with the acts of violence unleashed on us all by the Niger Delta militants vis-à-vis that of the Boko Haram Islamic sect...

UN Speech: Mr. President is a Bundle of Contradictions

Last week Friday, President Muhamadu Buhari, while addressing world leaders...

MASSOB Leader: Before The Court Date

To the millions of Ndigbo and many Nigerians, Uwazurike is nothing less than a peaceful revolutionary whose gospel of non-violent change is something that must be hearkened to...

Reviving a Reading Culture in Nigeria’s Youth

Perhaps some influential thinking person or people will prevail upon the federal minister of education to begin a process to reclaim the minds of our youth. Mental states such as semi-illiteracy and illiteracy do not become them...

The Madness of Political Correctness: Constitutional Crisis as Nigerian Vice President is Replaced

The ongoing political correctness in Nigeria which is interfering with every aspect of the political spectrum such as the obvious EFCC investigation of specific individuals, will destroy the value of the office of the Presidency...