In the process of deepening our embryonic democracy, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan since elected as president by a wide margin of votes cutting across the six geo-political zones that make the …

I was about to write another article dealing with Africans’ penchant for power, abuse and perpetuation in power, and then our First Lady’s excesses caught my imagination instead, and in …

The military coup in Nigeria in 1966 was incited by foreign interests. Their governments found it very difficult to manipulate our well-educated, nationalist politicians…

Lady Orji should have known and understood that it is not everybody in our state that has money like her family before she called and tasked corporate bodies and individuals …

When I met Governor Rotimi Amaechi, I was, in the words of an anonymous writer, looking down. When I left him, however, I was looking up. Besides the notorious or …

The state capital of Rivers is undergoing another political crisis. That is neither a novelty, nor particularly significant. The treasure-base routinely seems to set-in the throes of emergency…

All those with an entrepreneurial mindset would applaud the news that Nigeria is going to China to intensify our international relations…

In any locality, state or country where the leader is weak, not as a result of old age, but out of incompetence, such an environment is bound to grow weaker …

Two issues grabbed the headlines this weekend. Here, I will try to examine these issues as reflections of the state of our country Nigeria…

We have a largely complicit elite class that’s just too comfortable and happy with the status quo to be bothered about changing it – only rising up in response to …