By Matilda Ikediobi Professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, in this monitored interview, gave reasons Nigeria has failed to reach its potential and proffered solutions to the country’s problems. Excerpts: What’s your assessment of where we are? What’s your view about where we seem to be headed?  I think the Tony Uranta Memorial lecture was an […]

On December 25, 2009, Umar Abdulmutallab, better known as the Christmas Bomber, attempted to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear

“African leaders are stooges to those foreign countries. More importantly too, our political leaders are benefiting from the present situation”

The board of the South East Development Commission (SEDC) has concluded its third extraordinary meeting, reviewing the commission’s 2025 performance and approving its strategic outlook for 2026. The meeting, which also served as the board’s final statutory session for 2025, was held on Friday and chaired by Dr. Emeka Wogu, Chairman, SEDC board The board […]

The beneficiaries received undisclosed financial assistance alongside a bag of rice each during the commissioning of a Cassava Processing Centre at Jabo Jere Ward.

Obasanjo not only attended the Christmas Carol, but also read the Second Lesson which was taken from Genesis Chapter 22

Let’s discuss the essence of Christmas in Igboland and conclude with the significance of its branding for Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo and his Solution Government.

People sacrificed their lives fighting for you, many wasted their active years in the bush only to be abandoned at the end of the  Civil War. The effects are here now, MASSOB, IPOB, power drunk 419ers, there will be no peace until we remember those who died defending Ndigbo. My message is clear. Until the Igbo, as […]

Before soldiers seized Cotonou’s state television station to declare Patrice Talon deposed, Benin’s democracy had already become a sham.  Talon entered office in 2016 bearing the hopes of the country’s poor. Benin’s democracy, then 25 years old, was stable but stagnant, yielding little prosperity. Talon pledged to a single term—unshackled from re-election pressures and the politics […]

For a Senate that has not only in herited but arguably worsened its predecessor’s reputation as a rubber stamp, the scene that played out during the screening of President Bola Tinubu’s ambassadorial nominees was bound to be bewildering. Yet, even by Nigeria’s increasingly elastic standards of legislative conduct, what unfolded in Senate Committee Room 211 last […]