From the obscure position of a powerless Deputy Governor in the oil-rich Bayelsa State where he was at the shadow and mercy of the crumbs falling from the table of the self-acclaimed Governor-General of the Ijaw Nation Diepriye Alamiesigha to the Acting President of the most populous black nation on earth, no similar story told in recent times could have had a happier ending…

Ok, I’m still trying to rationalize this. The commander in Chief just got usurped by the Chief of Army Staff?  This is beyond Ordinary. I thought the Chief of Army staff was a few Offices removed from the Presidency!

Everything happening in Nigeria today points to the fact that the end game is getting to its critical stage. This should be expected from a country with such convoluted and greatly scrambled space as Nigeria…

Now that the president has returned, we welcome him back and wish him quick recovery. But then we need to see him and get him to talk to the nation and his people. He needs to physically appear in person to chair the affairs of the nation…

Peace is good for business and peace is the dwindling capital that Africa lacks. No place can thrive with trade, industry and commerce without quantifiable peace. For Africa to compete for capital and investments, she must be able to attain and maintain a sustainable quantifiable peace…

From all indications, a few unscrupulous individuals with no interest of the country at heart have continued to hoodwink and manipulate the rest of us. We all are aware that behind all these deceit and web of lies is the issue of succession…

President Umaru Musa YarAdua’s departure from Saudi Arabia and arrival in Nigeria is very dramatic and, quite possibly pregnant and loaded with intrigues and meanings…

Dim Ojukwu has always been a risk taker. It is a defining feature of his personality. In matter of fact, it is to risk taking that he owes his international fame and notoriety. Such a propensity, it was, which led him to stand up for his people in their darkest hour…

As Nigeria’s foremost nationalist and first post independence Head of State, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was to Nigeria, what George Washington is to America, Nkrumah is to Ghana, Nasser is to the Arabs, and Mandela is to South Africa…

 Let us presume that our absentee President is not going to be fit for purpose after this Saudi trip and I don’t think he will because the handwriting is on the wall. The game is over…

By swearing in Jonathan Goodluck as the acting president, the law makers have put a stop – at least temporarily – to the public ridicule and embarrassment that Yar’Adua has subjected Nigeria and Nigerians to…