One of the most frequently asked questions (FAQ) about dear our country by those in the diaspora is on insecurity. My general answer has always been that the state of our insecurity is not as bad as what it is being orchestrated to be. While it is a vague answer, deliberately so, it is not […]

Nigerian elections never end. But the cycle gets into overdrive roughly one year before a fresh general election. This is somewhat understandable. Politicians seeking re-election and those who want to displace them are high on political testosterone. It’s their season of sowing wild oats, casting nets, hosting conclaves, joining covens, and forging alliances for the good, […]

SOME readers of this column would be absolutely right if they conclude that writing on corruption in Nigeria is a waste of time. It might be, but what prompted a fresh interest in a national problem that has defied solutions forever are two developments earlier in the week. First one was a report by Transparency International, […]

Information filtered through a few weeks ago, that “a small team” of  United States, US, soldiers were in Nigeria. On Tuesday, February 10, 2026 an additional information was that 200 American soldiers areA being deployed to provide security for the small team. I am sure that soon these 200 would need a thousand US soldiers to […]

President Donald Trump regularly insults and     discriminates against black people; and I don’t understand why African heads of state are not giving him much – or any in some cases – serious pushback. When racists closely linked to Trump depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes on his social media account, he refused to apologise […]

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s Marmite president, is by no means a religious bigot. He is a moderate, even liberal, Muslim, who is surrounded, including in his immediate family, by practising Christians. However, for self-interested political calculations, Tinubu played the religious card to become president in 2023 by picking a fellow Muslim, Kashim Shettima, as his running-mate. […]

If you’ve ever sat in a Nigerian exam hall—whether it’s JAMB, WAEC, or those brutal university finals—you know that feeling. The air is thick with tension. You can hear pens scratching furiously across paper, the occasional cough, and the sound of your own thoughts racing faster than you can write. Outside the hall, parents and family […]

Nigerians love clichés to bits. More often than not, you hear them regurgitate the famous “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried” quip by former British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. The idea that democracy is the best form of government is a widely held principle in […]

Some opposition politicians, their supporters and other actors in the civic space on Monday made their way to the National Assembly in protest. They were unhappy that the Senate leadership rejected, as they claim, the position of the majority of the legislators that the results of the forthcoming 2027 elections should be mandatorily transmitted electronically in […]

For those who know him, it is apodictic that grace, spiritual muscle and the divine energy by which God operates, governs the theologico-spiritual architecture of the episcopacy of Archbishop Valerian Maduka Okeke. His forte is grace!