Now my eyes are on the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) following the appointment of Silas Agara, as Director General, thanks to president Bola Tinubu. For those who do not know him, this DG will make things happen. The job of Deputy Governor in Nigeria seems to move people to their political grave yard. Many […]

My ties with Vanguard, something I cherish so much, is not known to many. This story must be told today for the Canal remains a place of pride where I noticed one love before veering into journalism in 1988 through Ely Obasi, of blessed memory. I love writing, I also read a lot. In my […]

Leadership goes beyond moving around in convoys, waving from air conditioned bullet proof wonders on wheel and attending wine sampling parties from tropical Africa to choice locations across Planet Earth. The South – East Geo Political Zone has suffered enough, from within and without. I am glad that governors and other leaders of that very blessed area […]

The level of looting going on in the country is beyond human comprehension. Those involved are not just men and women in power. Corporate organisations, government institutions and private businesses are all part of the mess. One retired security expert has been so frustrated. For a long while, the over 80 years old man continued to bewail […]

Those Igbo who survived the war, were also forced to survive the peace. And to make ends meet, some of them pretended not to be Igbo

Qualification for the 2006 World is beyond those presently saddled with that responsibility. President Bola Tinubu should as a matter of national emergency, take the Super Eagles to the Presidency as a full fledged Department. Bringing the senior national soccer team so close to Tinubu is the only way the wrongs of the last four […]

Prof. Wole Soyinka will soon clock 90, we must continue to celebrate his past and throw the present into the forest of infamy. Some of us tend to forget that WS is a dramatist and will continue to write about everything, until his last hour. Anyone who expects the Nobel Laureate to ignore Peter Obi, […]

The Fourth Republic will go down in History as Nigeria’s darkest part where many criminals walked into power effortlessly, bringing along sorrow, tears and blood.  While we beam searchlight on bandits, militants and ritualists, some politicians continue to enjoy patronage. Barely 12 months into the Bola Tinubu presidency, some  politicians are plotting to fly a […]

The coup was a purely selfish drive which has left Nigeria bleeding for nearly sixty years

There is also another version that blames the Police for the tragedy. “The police used live ammunition to control the crowd