A pandemic of apathy and ignorance has hit the world. Interestingly, apathy is not the same as ignorance, though, both…
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The latest report published by the National Bureau of Statistics(NBS) on its website which among other things noted that Nigeria Unemployment…
In Nigerian politics, oftentimes expediency trumps morality. Honour is also a scarce commodity. Sadly, this norm has gained toehold. As…
Those who are familiar with Kaduna will concede to the indisputable fact that the capital of former Northern Region has…
Nothing makes better sense to the political classes than small time demagoguery when matters turn sour. True, the United Kingdom…
In a court somewhere in Nigeria… My Lord by way of allocutus the accused person now the convict pleaded guilty…
Corporate morality can be a flexible thing. Some companies see tantalising dollar signs afloat in the spilt blood of civilians…
My last article, “Further notes to the Nigerian Left” (late February 2021), was a deliberately condensed message. It was so…
Recently the former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,…
Brazil has proved a disaster in the management of COVID-19, but there are other areas where we can use their…
I remember an instance in my early 20s. The days when I and my friends would strut the famously trendy…
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria means many things to many people — Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike. To the Buharists or…
Last week, Australians found themselves delighting in another fit of cancel culture, this time in the art world. Tasmania’s Dark…
Most decent people detest violence in any guise but nobody has a monopoly on violence. This is why we must…
Prisoners in our own safe spaces…DD So lately I have played with the idea of participating in partisan politics but…
The primary religion in the old igbo society was the worship of Ala or mother Earth, thus every good igbo…
If religiosity is the way to economic power and technological advancement, Nigeria would have been an Eldorado by now. Many…
The conviction of a co-accused is the height of hypocrisy and mischief. The recent conviction of Professor Peter Ogban by…
Recently online discomforting news emerged about a Nigerian lady, Ms Itunu Babalola, living in the city of Bondoukou, Ivory Coast. Bondoukou…
1. Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went off to the chief priests to hand him over to them.…
After reading via the media, the recent accusations by stakeholders, among them policy makers and media managers, that the Nigerian…
They are gods to be glorified, worshiped and adored. Like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (Cf. Daniel 3:16-28), their subjects constitute…
We need new alliances – political, social, and humanitarian concordat. But we must start from a foreground of truth to…
Campaigners for the abolition of nuclear weapons had every reason to clink glasses with the coming into force of the…
I am deeply convinced that the story of Susanna is itself a gosple of a sort. It reveals the raw…
The Deputy Speaker of the House Representatives, Rt. Hon Ahmed Idris Wase came under fire on March 10, 2021 for…
The Biden administration continues to engage in that favourite activity White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki can only describe as…
I’m as guilty as the next person of spurting out, “only in Nigeria” when the absurd happens but maybe it’s…
John Pombe Joseph Magufuli was the President of the Republic of Tanzania until last Wednesday when he died officially of…
I was one of seven professors who facilitated a leadership training in my university here in Georgia for local government…