How will you respond if you wake up one morning to be greeted by a hike in the pump price…
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In our secondary school days in Eket, the home of ExxonMobil, the American oil and gas giant operating in Akwa…
The Nigerian state is currently making a seeming frantic effort to contain the uprising of Boko Haram in the North-East,…
All does not seem to be well with Nigeria’s plans for the 2023 general elections. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers…
Since a seeming strange era was foisted on Nigeria in 2015, life has become increasingly meaningless in the country. Rebel…
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s President since May 29, 2015 is still his old pre-Babangida coup self. Before the IBB coup, Buhari…
Chris Okotie, a pop music wizard-turned pastor of the Household of God Church International Ministries, raised a foggy dust in…
Are the current crop of Eastern Nigeria political leaders inept? The likes of the late Sam Mbakwe of the Second…
When the pioneer investigative journalist in Nigeria, Dele Giwa, was blown to smithereens by a letter-bomb delivered to his residence…
The Act (the Harmful Waste (Special Criminal Positions etc), Act 1988, referred to in part 1 of this piece, it was…
These days, it seems all right to play with fire. The blaze started like a solitary spark in Mali in…
Everyone has their meal of the day, and mine happens to be dinner. Having dinner, for me, is a ritual,…
It is the bounden duty of every citizen to hold the government to account. In fact, citizenship is a call…
Spy Wednesday was the day Judas Iscariot arranged for a human merchandise. “The one I kiss is the man; arrest…
“Certified Fresh” out of Munich. It’s so fresh that it’s not even available for sale yet, but unlike concept cars…
In the tome of liberation struggles, a few names resonate infinitely. One name that rings trenchant to this day is…
From the company that brought you legends like the Silver Arrows that have been devouring race tracks remorselessly since the…
It has become a yearly sacramental that during this season, friends and associates of Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun…
At the height of the armed insurrection against the American State in Washington on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, one of…
The last paragraph of my last published article for the year 2020, titled “Study notes on state and state failure”…
It’s true that Coronavirus is not among the top five most deadly diseases in Africa today. But it’s also correct…
As preparations are reaching advanced stage to mark the first two years in office of Sen. Bala Muhammed as governor…
From all indications and barring any surprise last minute entry, here are the aspirants seeking the seat of Chief John…
I have known the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, for a long time, I think. Before I got…
The saying that a prophet is not appreciated at home may well be referring to former Ghanaian president, Jerry Rawlings,…
As chief conductor of the saint factory, Pope John Paul II was always going to be, in time, canonised. Almost…
In the month of December 2019, an opinion article entitled; Sowore, And Silence from Unusual Quarters’’ by this author appeared…
This piece will seek to put into context South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s initial silence over the SARS crisis in…
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth”. Plato. As a recap, those few words below in…
Nothing puts greater timbre on the parlous state of security in the country than the denudation of the virtual hedges…