General Emeka Ojukwu breezed into the Green Eagles locker room to cheer them up before a game against Togo in Abidjan. That was in 1983, a year after he was granted Presidential pardon and that experience continues to thrill Paul Okoku. The Eagles were pleasantly surprised to have in their midst a man they had heard […]

The book title veered off my expectations, I thought Offiong Esua would write about how the Nigerian factor denied his maternal grandfather the much deserved position of First Indigenous Chief Justice or why members of the family avoid politics after their paternal grandfather supervised elections in the First Republic. ‘Trenchant Focus’, Dollar for Dollar, is Esua’s entry […]

What a bumper dance hall party there is in Heaven as Angels welcome Mrs Cordelia Ogbonne Anibeze with a ceremonial parade. And commanding the saintly Guard of Honour is  Sylvester Chidobu Anibeze who will be reuniting with his darling after 59 years. I am sure Ma Anibeze, 94, is already doing Gwo gwo ngwo with her love. […]

She turned 70 on January 11, 2025. Sorounded by Army officers, Mrs Caroline Olufunke Kofo knows what it means to serve the country, at home and abroad. Her husband retired from the Army as a Colonel, her first son is a serving Colonel and first daughter is married to a top officer. Many of us may not […]

Many of us saw the good times when the Head of State moved freely in an open Rolls Royce or Jaguar and put smiles on the faces of children as they exchanged waves. Dr. Johnson Tomisin (JT) Kalejaiye relishes his first eye contact with General Yakubu Gowon. On this particular day in 1972, Gowon was moving around […]

This bandit called death continues to traumatise humans. It comes with no milk of kindness or pity, snatching people you cherish, man, woman, old and young. Unfortunately, life continues while the dead journey to an unknown Planet. The year 2024 has taken some of my tiny crowd. Wonderful people in their own rights who made […]

Wounded politicians are highly inflammable, little wonder many turn to communicable disease when power eludes them. In 1959, Chief Theophilus Owolabi Shobowale (TOS)  Benson, became Nigeria’s first Minister of Information. A year before Reuben Abati was born, Benson lost his ministerial position after the 1964 General Elections. The man who gave him sleepless nights was […]

Presidential Elections in Nigeria form a major part of our underdevelopment due to circumstances imposed on the people by those who want to continue to keep them down. Perhaps, this is time to do away with the Four – Year double limit. President Bola Tinubu spent barely one year in office when campaigns for a […]

With the quality of individuals tasked with the responsibility of managing Local Councils, Rivers State will soon leave others behind. Credit should go to Governor Sim Fubara for allowing some of the best to move to the grassroots for something different. I do not want to delve into the politics of party affiliation. Fubara belongs […]

June 12 is not all about democracy. Before General Ibrahim Babangida and Chief Moshood Abiola, Brigadier Samuel Adesujo Ademulegun celebrated that date as his Entry Point into the officer cadre of the Nigeria Army, in 1949. He was commissioned same day as Gen. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi. Ademulegun dotted on his daughter, Solape. At his No. […]