Year: 2022

Every honest observer would confirm that the 2022 Independence Day celebration of Nigeria was different. In recent years, it was usually marked with a lack of warmth and excitement. In fact, many people would use […]

I have read and heard a couple of verbiage against Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State for standing with his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike over perceived injustice against the Rivers state helmsman. I want […]

“There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.” -Henry Van Dyke “Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can’t buy. It’s an invisible energy with visible effects.” Marianne […]

At the last count between 1999 and 2020, the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) has had 15 strike actions! 150 days in 1999; 90 days in 2001; 14 days in 2002; 180 days […]

When Nigeria lowered the Union Jack and raised the green-white-green flag that heralded its coming of age on October 1, 1960, there was boundless joy in Nigeria. It seemed like the unwrapping of a gift […]

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February, the number of war crimes that prosecutors in Ukraine have investigated has risen exponentially. In late May, it was 14,000. By July it had gone up […]

The chancellor ploughed on at the Conservative conference, oblivious to the incredibility of everything he said, though his party was imploding all around him, brought down by incompetence and moral inadequacy. “A little turbulence,” Kwasi […]

Before emigrating from Ireland to teach in England in 2006, I assumed British people would know as much about me as I did about them. I was put right just one year into the job, […]

It occurred to me that the phrase ‘federal university’ is a misnomer in this new age and for the federalism whose ‘true/pure’ type we are still searching for. Students under the National Association of Nigerian […]

Forced migration and its concomitant enslavement of the African was a blight on the world’s collective conscience between the 1500s and 1800s. The repercussions still reverberate through time to the present. Africans are calling for […]

There is no denying the fact that more often than not the public relations industry does a terrible job of while trying to satisfy its clients. Simply put, strategies adopted by PR experts sometimes boomerang. […]

The convoluted debate about our national existence elicits depression among most citizens. A sense of hopelessness pervades the public space with near zero public trust in government. Increasingly, even the best of patriots is contemplating […]

The new British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, took over from Boris Johnson on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. Her cabinet is instantly noticeable not only for its right-wing ideological bent but, perhaps more importantly, for its […]