Miscellaneous

A Hospital For Chima Ubani

In this sad season in Nigeria I got filled with so much joy when the news reached my end that Abia State Governor, Dr...

The Insult That Led to the Creation of Osun State

Osun State was created thirty-five years ago, but what if I told you the state was born, indirectly, from an insult. Yes, really. In 1945, Chief...

Nigerian Style Of Football

We played the game. It entailed any number of men or women running about kicking any roundish object. We had no special name for...

Contemporary Nigerian Heroes

By IfeanyiChukwu Afuba Amidst the nightmare that daily life has become for majority of Nigerians, oases of personal and group example continue to come to...

When Will Trump Renovate the White House?

Shortly after his election as president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu announced that he had suspended payments on fuel subsidies. Once that announcement was made,...

My Helicopter Flight Into Near Death 

I have been in more deadly dangers in my journalistic travails than a suicide bomber. When I look back, I can only wonder and laugh...

Nigeria’s Flourishing Fake Industries

Identifying squalid conditions in any society consistently is a humanitarian job that deserves divine compensation. Such conditions could be in the corridors of power,...

A Christmas of Tears: Hunger and Hardship Overshadow Festivities In Nigeria

As Christmas dawns across Nigeria, the warmth and unity of the season have been replaced by cold reality and despair. According to the National...

The Zik Mausoleum At Onitsha Needs Attention

A boon companion has just taken me to Onitsha, the city on the bank of the River Niger in Anambra State, and the only...

How The ‘Pagan’ Wole Soyinka Saved A Born-Again Pastor Chuzzy Udenwa

Nothing divides Nigerians like religion, but I have it on good account that Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who prefers Orisha to Christianity and Islam...

The Bobrisky Prison Saga – Why an Investigation is Crucial for Justice

The six-month jail term of popular cross-dresser Idris Okuneye, better known as Bobrisky, continues to stir conversation among Nigerians. What began as a legal...

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The Obi’s New Education Version And Unionists Politics

Since the return of 56 secondary and 1040 primary schools in Anambra State to the missionaries on 21st November, 2011, Governor Peter Obi of the state has experienced vocal and written mayhem...

If This Is Hatred, Nigeria Needs More of It!” — The Rising Ideology Against Failure

In a country staggering under the weight of endless...

Ibrahim Babangida: Presidential Candidate Or Fugitive From Justice?

Common Sense should have told Ibrahim Babangida, head of the illegal Military junta that ruled Nigeria 1985-1993, that his current image-laundering exercise in the guise of Presidential Contest is no solution to his problem with Nigerians...

Nigerians, Jews & Humanity's Common Good

The AJC, NIDO and NPF events were wonderful experiences in the pursuit of the common good of Nigeria...

Edo Roads, Obaseki Has Bad Story to Tell

Just twenty-four hours before making the trip to Benin...

Nigeria’s democracy, Boko Haram and public orderliness!

Nigeria's well-being depends on a lot of things, among which economy and security play a prominent role. If these things are not taken care of, government's claims of a pro-people regime are inconsequential...

Siasaga

The call for the scalp of the embattled Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, as a totem to appease the impregnable coliseum of teeming fans of the Super Eagles, is understandable...

Sports and Politics

There are not too many endeavours that exert stronger...

The Hidden Secrets Of Self-Confidence

Living daily based on the feedback we get from others has never been, and will never be the best deal we can ever get. Depending absolutely on the sensory inputs we get from others is self-limiting and damaging to our inner psyche...

Nigeria’s True Heroes and Villains

The dreaded Ebola virus and Boko Haram represent different faces of two most dire crises currently plaguing Nigeria. The former is a natural contagion, the latter a human-made disaster...