By Farooq A. Kperogi Although I have said in the past that next year’s presidential contest…
Category: Opinions/Columnists
OPINION: Killing fields of the South East
By Emeka Alex Duru The piece by a colleague, Casmir Igbokwe, on Monday, February 14, 2022,…
OPINION: Buhari’s kind of kindness
By Femi Adesina A man with empathy for the poor, the weak and the vulnerable. He…
When fiction probes silence, darkness
By Olukorede Yishau Jumoke Verissimo’s ‘A Small Silence’ has a ring around it: Silence. In this…
OPINION: What, exactly, does Nigeria want from Ndigbo?
…Ndigbo are the glue that holds the country together By Ikechukwu Amaechi The usual refrain on…
OPINION: The Wealth Creator
By N.T.A. Efo Thanks to his resolute leadership style as a private sector operator, foremost gubernatorial…
What a thanksgiving!
By Charles Okogene The day was February 14, 2022. Incidentally, it was a date set aside…
OPINION – Ephraim Akparawa Inyang-eyen: Our politics of subtraction
By Michael Bush Last night as I contemplated this piece, some troubling, godforsaken news filtered in.…
OPINION: Are our ancestors of any real value?
By Bamidele Johnson At the peak of the Sunday Igboho-headlined secessionist project, Oduduwa, the presumed progenitor…
Previously unseen bombshell ASUU report on Pantami’s controversial professorship
By Farooq Kperogi Someone shared with me this February 12, 2022, report of the ASUU committee…
OPINION: Drama, reality and illegal refineries
By Dakuku Peterside The debate about politicians being among the best actors on earth is as…
Why Is the police CRU quiet?
By Gimba Kakanda Even though DCP Abba Kyari was long unravelled, a side of his criminal…
Aregbesola, political treachery and the Ijebu-Jesa sermon
By Festus Adedayo Chinua Achebe’s Tortoise folktale in his highly celebrated Things Fall Apart, among other…
Abba Kyari and irony of Nigeria’s anti-crime initiatives
By Emeka Alex Duru If you attempt an analogy of failed coup plotters in Nigeria and…
OPINION: Buhari and his National Assembly friends
By Tonnie Iredia Mutual distrust and suspicion between the Saraki-led 8th National Assembly and the Buhari-led…
OPINION: Ebubeagu and violent crimes in Imo State
By Sam Amadi There is so many violent crimes in our society today. Criminal justice system…
OPINION: Indabosky! If only for 2nd Niger Bridge, this country won’t ever forget Buhari
By Femi Adesina This year, the long wait for Godot will come to an end. The…
Opinion: Aridolf, Aridolf, Aridolf
By Olukorede Yishau A novelist once told me his experience with a fiction editor not versed…
OPINION: The other side of Mbaka’s Homily
By Ike Abonyi In a forthright I am tempted to engage in a conversation over church…
We should thank ASUU on Pantami’s fraudfessorship
By Farooq Kperogi I woke up to the news that the national leadership of the Academic…
Sofiat’s murder and our booming human parts market
By Festus Adedayo With the shock, anger, and general revulsion that followed the gruesome killing of…
Letting the cat out of Zouma’s case
By Gimba Kakanda I doubt Kurt Zouma, the black French footballer at the centre of trending…
Presidency: Declarations without delineations
By Emeka Alex Duru With possible exception of Professor Kingsley Muoghalu of the African Democratic Congress…
OPINION – #Pause: ‘What’s happening?’
By Strive Masiyiwa It is always fascinating how people answer that question. It basically depends on…
Azuh at 50 – ‘A Taste of Success’: Foreword
By Azubuike Ishiekwene First, I want to thank all of you, both immensely and immeasurably, for…
Development knows no ethnicity, no religion
By Olukorede Yishau In ‘Adú’— a Netflix movie about how the destinies of a six-year-old boy…
OPINION: Title taking in Igboland
By Uche Nworah, Ph.D (In this instalment of Igbo Culture Knowledge Series (ICKS), we take a…
Go to bed smarter each day
By Strive Masiyiwa __”Read 500 pages, every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like…