Portable is the stage name of Street-Hop rapper, Habeb Okikiola Badmus.   He is crass   in appearance and, ill-mannered    with apparent gaps in thought. Exhibiting outlandish behaviour, he divides his hair into parts each with a loud colour that gives the appearance of a cockerel head. The tattooed Portable who styles himself as the leader of […]

In 1954 Sir John Verity lost his job because he won an argument. It was in his ninth year in office as Chief Justice of colonial Nigeria. Sir John arrived in Nigeria in October 1945 from the British Guyana, where he had served in a similar position since 1941. At the time, Nigeria was still a unitary system under colonial rule.

Those who said life begins at 40 could have said so because of this legend, Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, gifted to the world by Portugal. He turned 40 on Wednesday to join the exclusive club of players who, at that age, are/were still scoring goals. On Monday, two days before the milestone age, CR7, […]

In my class on Nigerian Foreign Policy taught by the late Professor Olajide Aluko, there was a quiet, soft-spoken and very good-looking guy. One day I was reading at the Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, and when I was about to leave, I found out that I did not have my library card on me to take […]

The election of Mazi John Azuta-Mbata as the 13th President of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo has drawn both high approbations, and a bit of controversy. The controversy comes largely in the claim from a few quarters about Ikwerre and their Igbo identity. The identity of the Ikwerre as Igbo is not in doubt, and should never be. […]