This is a week of anniversaries in Nigeria. On May 27, which was Children’s Day, Lagos State celebrated its 50th anniversary. On May 29, Nigeria celebrated its Democracy Day, which marked 18 years of uninterrupted […]
This year, for the second time in a row, Nigeria is ranked the thirteenth least stable country in the world. The 2017 Fragile States Index (FSI), launched May 15, gave Nigeria a total score of […]
It is sad that many Nigerians today talk glibly about the possibility of a coup or of military intervention in politics. They make it seem as if this democracy is something we can exchange for […]
Every new day, this collection of fraudsters and members of a myopic, gullible and daft association that parades itself as the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by a hate speech monger named Nnamdi Kanu […]
As we set out to close shops and offices, disrupt movement by burning tires and then retiring to bars to drink beer, the fallen Biafran heroes told me to inform Ndigbo that such goalless acts […]
When I think of May 30, especially looking back as it relates to the ominous year 1967 and the severed Biafran aspiration, I remember with nostalgic sense the circumstances that ultimately triggered what some might […]
Two years ago to this day, you brought me to tears. You were in our nation’s capital, being inaugurated as the first Nigerian in our nation’s history to win the presidency from an opposition party. […]
A Catholic Bishop, Kayode Odetoyinbo, has kicked against calls for the restructuring of Nigeria as the only way to solve the myriad problems confronting the country. Mr. Odetoyinbo of the Abeokuta Diocese made this known […]
Dear Mr. Kachikwu, I just read the statement in Daily Trust newspaper of May 26, 2017 from Vienna, Austria where you were attending the 172nd OPEC meeting. Quoting your contradictory utterances further confirms and reinforces […]
Being slightly under the weather lately, my chance encounter with a compatriot with zero knowledge of anything about Nigeria after Gowon was therapeutic. If you are a Nigerian in the diaspora, engaged daily with Nigeria […]
For the record, I was born after the Biafra war. Everything I know about it was what I heard or read from different sides to the conflict. Since I was not around to follow the […]
The continuing mystery of President Buhari’s illness and the handling of the saga by his aides is more evidence that Nigeria’s political system works almost independently of the individual nominally in charge. If we had […]
The storms are gathering for a labour strike over a new minimum wage demand, as government is yet to make a concrete offer. Shortly after the May Day rally in Abuja that ended in a […]
The Rt. Rev. Michael Adeyemi is the head of the African Church, Ifako Diocese, and the boss of the Presiding Chaplain of the Chapel of Christ the Light, Ikeja, Venerable Femi Taiwo, who […]
Change, as the only constant in life, has become a universal aphorism. Nonetheless, humans are evolutionarily predisposed to resist change because of the inherent uncertainties. Organisations and people that don’t embrace change are bound to […]
The police in Ebonyi State has arrested members of IPOB and MASSOB for sensitizing the public to sit at home on the 30th of May in order to honor the fallen heroes of the 1967 […]
I don’t know if anybody made a physical count, but the reports in the media was that 34 private jets landed in Minna for the wedding of Halima, the daughter of General Ibrahim Babangida. In […]
I hovered around the patched precincts of the magistrate court, Zone 2, Abuja on November 23, 2015. It was tumultuous day. A stomping and surging crowd massed around the court, just as a phalanx of […]
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has described, as a slap on the faces of Nigerians, the launch of a book on corruption by Mr. Dino Melaye, the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District. Professor Soyinka […]
The immediate past attorney-general of the federation, Mohammed Adoke, who is facing corruption charges, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to declare his prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, illegal. […]
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