I experienced/saw bullying from primary school. At Ughelli, Delta State, two elder brothers of mine protected me. When my father was transferred to Ozoro in 1973, I continued my primary education in Ozoro. I did not really experience bullying. But two classmates of mine did cause me some distress. On one occasion, they wanted to see the […]

Tinubu has done us proud. The first Nigerian leader to visit the English monarch in decades. That’s no mean feat.  He may not have tamed the electricity demon he had  bitched bitterly about when he was in the opposition.  But it’s inspiring to see him dazzling the paparazzi at Windsor. It’s not easy to find […]

Before the advent of digital media with its era of quick clicks, the print media was the most enduring means of reaching and influencing minds. This made its practitioners visible and its Editors powerful. And connected. There was therefore, the tendency to see the world as your oyster, or worse, to think the world owed you, […]

Ardent fans of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, BAT, are something else! They can’t abide anyone who doesn’t share their blind allegiance to their hero. They choose to wallow in intellectual dishonesty and to disbelieve deservedly negative stories about his performance and his past. They blame him for nothing that is going wrong in Nigeria. I […]

This is the last thing the African Democratic Congress, ADC, wants to hear, but it has to be said, even if the party digs its thumbs in its ear. It began with the party’s delayed registration.  When things were not moving as quickly as the early defectors, mostly from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had expected, […]

Washington’s three blind mice. Donald Trump, their President. Marco Rubio his Secretary of State and Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defence, now transformed into Secretary of War. A trinity of the greedy, the liar and the lawless, nesting in territorial and colonial delusions. In carrying out mass destruction and massacres as they are doing in Iran, and […]

THE war in the Middle East, being fought by the United States and Israel against Iran, is still raging, and its outcomes are being felt all over the world. In the early days of the war which began February 28, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the aftermath of air strikes on selected targets […]

Nigeria has never had a president like Bola Ahmed Tinubu. For the first time in its recent political history, Nigeria has a president whose standards of political morality can be described as utterly amoral in the sense that he subscribes to the cynical saying, attributed to Vladimir Lenin, that “there are no morals in politics.” Indeed, […]

Last week, I lamented that President Bola Tinubu has hollowed out Nigeria’s democracy. The article generated interested reactions. A regular reader of this column accused me of Tinubuphobia. How is it that you don’t see anything good in Tinubu, he asked. Another sent me a cryptically worded text: “Sour grapes from name-calling!” Some kindred spirits, nonetheless, […]

You’ve prepared for weeks. You know your material inside and out—every statistic, every argument, every supporting detail is committed to memory. You step up to present, confident in your expertise. Yet within minutes, you notice it: eyes glazing over, attention drifting, the subtle shift of bodies in seats as minds wander elsewhere. By the time you […]