Too many fake tendencies in Nigeria, by Tonnie Iredia
Notwithstanding its nebulous status, the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) was able to appoint a director-general and hundreds of staff. It also secured an office space at the federal secretariat and indeed found its way into the nation’s budget with a Budget Code 0111062001 assigned to it. This huge achievement was attained by the […]
Professor J Isawa Elaigwu – The Exit of a Mentor
By JIDEOFOR ADIBE I met Professor Elaigwu through his former teacher and mentor, the late Professor Ali Mazrui who transited to glory on October 12, 2014. My meeting with Professor Mazrui was fortuitous. I was living in London at the time and had founded the publishing company, Adonis & Abbey publishers(www.adonis-abbey.com), in 2003. The following […]
Two metaphors on public waste: Flyovers and tractors
By Dele Sobowale “Nothing is more wasteful than doing with great efficiency that which should not be done.” Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review, March-April, 1993. For five years, after being confined to a wheelchair, I now feel strong enough to travel around Nigeria more often. Thus, in August, I was able to touch eight states. What I […]
Banditry, its politics and practitioners
One of the major challenges of Nigeria since colonial times had been corruption. But President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has now proclaimed its death. Corruption is gone! Futuristic laser technology must have been used to carry out such a comprehensive and professional operation on corruption in the body polity of Nigeria. So sophisticated that we Nigerians were […]
Ministry of judges welfare
When the House of Lords, as the upper chamber of the UK Parliament is called, debated the Courts Bill introduced by the government of Edward Heath in December 1970, Lord Hailsham was in the Woolsack as the Lord Chancellor.
Nigeria 2027: If I were Goodluck Jonathan, by Tonnie Iredia
For the second time in this column,I am today attempting to reach out to one leader who has had the special privilege of serving as a first citizen of Nigeria. The first time I tried it was in May 2012, when this column featured an article titled “Nigeria: If I were General Buhari.” What influenced my […]
Husband material, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
My husband and I recently celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary. I always get asked questions about marriage and relationships. Even though I have many opinions on these matters, I am often reluctant to talk about them. I do not like giving relationship advice to either my peers or the younger generation. This is simply because each […]
The Fulani and Nigeria, by Obi Nwakanma
In the 1950s and 60s, the national canard was “Igbo domination.” The Igbo were everywhere in the establishment. They were at the forefront of the anticolonial Nationalist movement. Dr. Azikiwe, himself Igbo, had created the first real National newspaper chain, which had “imagined the nation” into being. It was clear that Igbo dominated the very process […]
Yahoo Boys: The gospel of fast money, by Stephanie Shaakaa
Brilliant minds trapped by unemployment, degrees collecting dust, and dreams stalled at visa counters created a pressure cooker
Nigeria, you have been evicted, Stephanie Shaakaa
What Big Brother offers is not merely entertainment, it is anaesthesia. A narcotic. A sweet escape from a bitter reality
Equal work, unequal pay, the theft we still tolerate, by Stephanie Shaakaa
Women do the same work as men, often under the same lights, the same pressure, the same sacrifice yet they are paid less
Independence Has Failed Nigeria: Is Recolonisation Still Off-limits? By Ugoji Egbujo
Nigeria has a profound leadership crisis. It isn’t just recycling indolent, corrupt and manipulative leaders, it’s incubating a defective citizenship. The necessary sceptical edge to watchdog democracy has been blunted. The citizenry is aggressively normalising political mediocrity. Failure is excused. Mundanity is celebrated. Stagnation feels peaceful For the poor, hunger and joblessness have acquired inevitability. […]
Police and tinted car permits, by Muyiwa Adetiba
I have as my neighbor, a retired Police top boss whom I rarely see but whose friendship I cherish. I also met a lot of Police Officers over the years by virtue of my work as a journalist. A few of them developed into personal relationships at the time. Besides, I had played squash at […]
Jonathan’s Betrayal And Tinubu’s Untold Prison Experience, by Emmanuel Aziken
President Goodluck Jonathan and Chief Mike Oghiadomhe share a political kinship born in adversity. Both began their rise from the shadows as deputy governors with little influence under powerful principals. Oghiadomhe, widely believed to have been chosen at the instance of the late Rear Admiral Mike Akhigbe, served as deputy to Governor Lucky Igbinedion in Edo State. […]
Mama Powder @ 92, by Francis Ewherido
Yesterday, September 5, 2025, was the 92nd birthday of my mother, Mrs. Paulina Powder Ewherido. After her 90th birthday, I decided that I will do no more tributes. I was happy that she was well celebrated on her 90th birthday, which gave her a foretaste of what her burial will look like. There’s no doubt that she […]
Why Jonathan won’t contest, whatever the courts say
After the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, announced last week that it would zone the presidency to the South in 2027, some names have been widely mentioned as possible frontrunners. Former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Labour Party’s presidential flagbearer in the last election, Peter Obi, are perhaps the two most serious contenders. With Obi […]
