Refugee crises are often manufactured by governments. They can be done at the source: war, famine, rapacious institutions. They can…
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One of the markers of underdevelopment is that while other nations are progressively raising the bar to epical level in…
Shikrot Mpwi – Sunday Synopsis with Fr. Justine J. Dyikuk 33rd Sunday of the Year, B – November 14, 2021. Readings:…
Politicians of these days erroneously believe that they have the technicality of deceit and can fool all the people all…
Spokesman for the rampaging bandits and Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, has scaled-up his advocacy for his bloodletting comrades to a…
Mr Abdulrasheed Maina former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, was sentenced to eight years in prison…
The word “twerk” – a dance move popularised by singer Miley Cyrus – actually dates back to 1820, according to the Oxford…
In a modest effort to disrupt the global spyware market, the United States announced last week that four entities had…
Ikoyi district of Lagos has been associated with two unsavoury tales of national interest in the last four years, such…
1. In the course of his teaching Jesus said to the crowds, “Beware of the scribes, who like to go…
It wasn’t a mere government sponsored jamboree that’s common in Nigeria but that was a collection of intellectuals, elites and…
Nigerian Army is currently on its knees begging the Buhari administration to remove it from the annual envelope budgeting being…
‘‘For Nigeria, climate change is not about the perils of tomorrow but what is happening today. Nigeria is committed to…
A few years ago, there were certain issues that were considered sacred and could only be harped on in the…
Of late, the press in Nigerian has been unfairly blamed by many state actors for the multisectoral tragedies bedevilling the…
Sunday Reflections “You are not far from the kingdom of God” 1. One of the scribes came to Jesus and…
Except for those who are deeply gifted spiritually, Nigeria’s politics cannot be easily predicted. For instance, since former Vice President…
Last week the president pleaded with journalists to use the term “declining insecurity” rather than “rising insecurity” in their…
A Third World country which genuinely harbours any ambition of stepping up to First World would not be so nonchalant…
On January 7, 2015, the staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo found themselves facing a form of cancel…
There is a totem of disavowal among other geopolitical zones, each time Igbo presidency is contemplated. All manners of incoherent…
1. As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son…
Failure of good leadership anchored on the rule of law, transparency, probity, equity and justice is creating a very unpleasant…
Ahead of the trial of the Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Thursday, the governorship candidate…
The Anambra gubernatorial election slated for November 6, 2021, has been nothing short of dramatic even before the D…
The Coronavirus pandemic which crept up on the entire world and grounded the economies of even the most developed of…
Rumours They get started by certain people that run their mouths without the facts, they take a story they’ve…
There are so many burning topics to discuss in columns and news commentaries this week. From the controversial…
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to…
Before the exit of former president Jonathan, the price of crude oil, Nigeria’s economic pillar was USD36 per barrel…