By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu If you wanna live – treat me good If you wanna live, live – I beg you treat me good I’m like a walking razor Don’t you watch my size I’m dangerous, said I’m dangerous I’m like a walking razor Don’t you watch my size I’m dangerous, dangerous. Peter Tosh, Steppin’ […]

My dad, late Pa Robinson Omorodion (may God bless his soul) used to tell us that at a certain point in a man’s life, he should pause and ask himself a question. That is mostly when almost everything he does portrays him in bad light or attracts negative comments about his actions or inactions. That […]

Nigeria changed from the parliamentary system of government to the presidential system in 1979. Since then, no president has been removed from office using the impeachment proceedings approved by the constitution. Seven governors have however been impeached but none has stood the test of time. Six of the affected governors had their impeachments nullified while that […]

Beloved, the Christmas and New Year celebrations are over and many of us are back at work with a resolve to have 2026 better than 2025. May God help us actualize our visions. People make resolutions as to what they would like to do or what they want to do away with.   These resolutions are quite […]

“The great masses of the people …will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one” – Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945. It took almost an entire week for me to decide on the topic of this article. It could easily have been titled TRUMP DOESN’T LOVE NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS or TRUMP’S GANG THAT COULD […]

Orphaned when parental care was most needed, the children of Brigadier Samuel Adesujo Ademulegun and his spouse, Latifat Feyisitan Abike ( nee Ekemode – Noble ) are at sea about the burial site of their parents who were murdered sixty years ago, in Kaduna.

Power almost never explains itself honestly. It prefers euphemism to confession, procedure to motive, and moral language to material truth. The most durable systems of dominance do not announce their purpose; they embed it so deeply into daily life that it becomes indistinguishable from inevitability. For more than half a century, American global power has rested not […]

Subsidy removal shifted the financial burden from government to the people, but it also unlocked a flood of revenue for the states.

Modern football does not reward romance alone. It rewards organisation mental strength and the ability to win ugly when necessary

A conversation we have deliberately avoided. Not because it does not exist, but because it thrives in silence. Not because it is rare, but because it is discreet

Wike’s politics of gbas-gbos — the brand of raw confrontation that blurs party lines, intimidates institutions, and thrives on public spectacle — appeared, until recently, immune to political boundaries. For years, Nyesom Wike operated in a space where allegiance to party mattered less than allegiance to power. He fought PDP leaders while funding APC victories. He governed […]

The recently opened coastal highway also opened up a few more things than the road itself. It opened the eyes of many Nigerians to what is possible. A friend and professional colleague, who in the almost fifty years that we have known each other, has consistently been a sworn enemy of all that is bad in governance […]

LAST week, I discussed here that the governments of Nigeria will have to do more to enable Nigerians pay tax the way the government wants them to pay it. The new tax laws which came into effect January 1, despite the furore over what was passed and what was gazetted is supposed to be a step in […]

On a Youtube podcast I posted a few days ago, I briefly discussed conflicts  that destroy or undermine relationships. One such conflict recently occurred in my life and it revolved around religion. In a nutshell, a former friend and I are no longer on speaking terms because she took offence when I politely refused to share […]

This seventh edition of my special yearly forecast might be the last. I’ve enjoyed  doing it – the hits and the misses – especially the big hits.  From twice forecasting that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar would lose (2019 and 2023, he’ll lose again in 2027), months before the election, to predicting that at least five […]