Following the 3-month quit notice handed down to the Igbos living and working or doing business in the northern states, the Biafran agitation on one hand and the restructuring of …
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(Photo credit: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images via Flickr) Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) is a retired armoured General in the Nigerian Armed Forces. A professional coup plotter, he ruled the giant of …
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The caption for this piece was originally meant to be “Strange Things In A Strange Country” but at the last minute I changed my mind and settled for the above. …
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Last week some misguided Arewa youths in Kaduna issued an ultimatum to the Igbos living doing business in all northern states to leave the north before the 1st of October …
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Ambassador Babagana Kingibe is a Nigerian veteran politician who could be said to belong eminently to the gerontocratic generation. They have been pampered and fed for decades with little or …
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Before President Buhari left Abuja for London to, yet again, take care of his deteriorating health he had hosted some 82 Chibok girls released by the Boko Haram terrorist organization. …
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That Nigeria is a lawless country is an under-statement. And that ‘anything-goes’ is the order of the day is also a true statement. Our potentially-great nation has major socio-political problems …
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Education is strategically vital to the development and greatness of any nation. It remains the key to unlocking the socio-economic potentials of any society. When the educational priority is gotten …
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At 74 Muhammadu Buhari is the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He came to power in May 2015 after winning a landmark presidential poll of the same …
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Apostle Johnson Suleman, the Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, is a man in the eye of the storm lately. He first came to national limelight not because he was …
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The Nigerian former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is a great man from all indications. An enigma Obasanjo achieved greatness by both opportunism offered by the Nigerian peculiar politics and mother luck …
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To be a President of any given country is a special honour and privilege not given to everyone. Politics is always a great thing when it leads one to power …
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The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, marked her 46th birthday anniversary recently. She was reported to have donated some gift items to the less-privileged of our society. Using her …
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Perhaps it is not irrelevant to begin this essay by making a confession: I had a little problem deciding on the title of this article. Many captions were competing for …
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The Ogidigborigbo of Oghara, James Onanefe Ibori, the kleptocratic ex-Governor of the oil-rich Delta State, returned home from London recently. Ibori had spent years in prison in the UK for …
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Comrade Julius Malema is the former radical intrepidly-outspoken leader of the youth wing of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa. Ever since he was eased out of …