Prince Nico Mbarga did not meet one of his greatest fans, Nneoma Violet Iroagalachi Amaechi yet they had something in common. While the musician sang ‘Sweet Mother’, she danced to the track on a daily basis. And when the Methodist Church decided to honour Mama, the title was ‘Nneoma’, which means Good Mother. The lover […]

In the same month we celebrated the global progress of women, the Nigerian woman took a visceral hit. The harrowing footage from the Ozoro festival in Delta State acted as a grim “return to reality”—a jagged reminder that for the Nigerian woman, freedom is often not an inherent right, but a precarious gift, granted or rescinded based […]

“The saying is true. One man sows, another man reaps. I have sent you to reap that which you did not labor for” John 4: 37/38 When my parents decided to leave downtown Ilesha for a new development on the outskirts of town, a cousin living with us at the time whom I called ‘Uncle’ because of […]

Friends, admirers, and the “Obidient” fanbase of the former Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, love to call him by the sobriquet “Okwute,” which in Igbo, Nigeria’s third-largest socio-linguistic group, means rock, boulder, or stone. Quite a nice alias – especially if you associate some doctrinal nuances of Obi’s faith with his first name, […]

Moroccans. I love Moroccans. They are a fine people with a very rich history and culture. But in the last six decades their country has been in the news, often for the wrong reasons.  They are now known for being intolerant, divisive,  quarrelsome, arrogant, but subservient and unscrupulous.  When it was to host the 2026 Africa […]

IT was actually very pathetic reading reports of apologies made by Power Minister, Adebayo Adelabu, earlier in the week. Reading his apology nearly made me puke; they were the words of a politician used to, and schooled in, dressing up inefficiencies in mandate actualisation with rhetoric. For years, since I was a boy (that’s as far back […]

Nigeria should not only be seen to be free, it must be free indeed! We are still the same Nigerians who sent the military packing despite their maradonic tendencies!

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is comatose on a deathbed; it’s on life support. The doctors (INEC and the judiciary) are colluding to switch off the life-support machine. They believe the party needs euthanasia or assisted suicide. Yet, what’s really needed is to remove the external factors that interacted with PDP’s genetic predisposition to cause its […]

Omoyele Sowore’s recent visit to Aba, the South-East commercial nerve centre, is creating a buzz. The politician, who doubles as an activist and social crusader, was in Enyimba City to lead a protest demanding freedom for the imprisoned leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who hails from Umuahia, the capital city […]

I’ll never forget the first time I watched a brilliant entrepreneur completely fumble their pitch. The idea was revolutionary—a solution that could genuinely change lives. But within three minutes of presenting to potential investors, the room had gone cold. This was not because the idea lacked merit, but because the founder couldn’t articulate why it mattered. […]