Let’s be honest: no one has the time — or the patience — to read every single page of every book or journal article related to their research. If you’re a PhD student or a researcher working on a thesis, you probably already know what it feels like to sit in front of a mountain of […]

When Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who had been re-elected a member of the House of Representatives, was appointed minister of interior by President Bola Tinubu in August 2023, not many paid heed. But those who knew his antecedents were upbeat that the appointment was tantamount to putting a round peg in a round hole. To be sure, the […]

The greatest oxygen of insecurity in Nigeria is what people call “political correctness”. Most people do not want to call a spade by its name. The question of whether there are Christian genocides in Nigeria should not arise. Routine Benue and Plateau mass burials say it all. The miasma of these massacres of Christian populations in […]

Twenty-Four years after a seismic development in the telecommunications industry, the regulator said on Monday that industry stakeholders can have a better experience only if they can adjust their understanding of modern telecom regulation whose products they were only too happy to put in the public domain.  At the virtual launch of the NCC Public Performance […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his minders at this point don’t need to be told that whatever they do will always be placed under a magnifying glass to better assess where they may have strayed from the well-beaten path into the bush. They stir extreme reactions from both their supporters and detractors alike. It doesn’t look […]

“Profound definitions do not refute superficial ones, but, supplementing them, include them in themselves“- Georgi Plekhanov  Defining Nigeria today or, for that matter, in 1909, must proceed from the perceptive recognition of the profound place that the North occupies in the formation of the country. It is a historical fact proven by contemporary realities, that without […]

By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja The Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State has said that with widespread poverty and limited energy access, African countries cannot afford to abandon its 125 billion barrels of crude oil and over 600 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves. The Principal and Chief Executive of PTI, Dr. Samuel Onoji, stated this […]

There are moments when a country hears an uncomfortable truth with piercing clarity. This is one of them. In late August, three sober voices—former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, and the Sultan of Sokoto—said aloud what millions whisper: justice in Nigeria is too often negotiated, not delivered. Their warning was not a rhetorical flourish; it […]

  “One who causes others misfortune, teaches them sense”–  African proverb. Last week, an event involving lead ers, organizations and leading Ulama from the North held in Kaduna. The last time clerics and leaders of Muslim communities in the North showed such unity  was during the scramble for reinforcing the Sharia legal system in states […]

I saw Mr. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang (60), the governor of Plateau State, a lawyer-banker and former Chairman of Mangu Local Government Area of the state, lamenting on television over herdsmen invasion of his state. The governor was almost in tears.  It was the same with Mr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia (59) the governor of Benue State, who […]

The 1990s were the  deadliest for change agents in Nigeria. We lost hundreds. In 1994, some political elites decided to join us. This led to the  establishment of the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO.One day, one of these elites brought a parcel to the leader of the Campaign for Democracy, CD, Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti to be kept. Beko, […]

In September 1887, Harry Johnston, Acting Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Niger Delta) procured the arrest in the wharfs of the Niger Delta of King Jaja of Opobo on the rather dubious charge of “obstruction of trade”. It accused King Jaja of violating a trade treaty with the British, which did not, however, have any penal […]

In September 1887, Harry Johnston, Acting Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Niger Delta) procured the arrest in the wharfs of the Niger Delta of King Jaja of Opobo on the rather dubious charge of “obstruction of trade”.

David Umahi, Minister of Works under this administration, is not a very likeable man. He is crude, and not really very polished. Mr. Umahi trained in engineering at the old Anambra State University of Technology (ASUTHEC), now Enugu State University. It was not a bad school. But in the period David Umahi went there, it was […]

Professor Joash Amupitan (SAN), outgoing Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) of the University of Jos is now the chairman of Nigeria’s electoral body – the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The entire process of nomination, scrutiny, endorsement, approval and appointment wasas far as the public was concerned concluded within a week. What was the speed for? […]