From last week, this is the concluding narrative of General Yakubu Gowon’s many landmark achievements before his overthrow on July 30, 1975. These included the establishment of many companies with significant Federal Government shareholdings as well as the promulgation of the Indigenisation Decree. Also worthy of mention is the setting up of the National Youth Service […]

“If the owner of the land leads you, you cannot get lost”— African proverb. Perhaps it was inevitable, but the tide of negative public opinion on Northern Governors has been rising at a pace that should worry them. The reality is that more articulate and influential voices are being raised against their performance and commitment to […]

By Dele Sobowale “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress” – Niels Bohr, 1885-11962 Bohr, a Danish Nobel Prize Winner in Physics was one of the leaders in unraveling the mysteries of quantum theory. Along the line, he discovered that atoms don’t act in predictable […]

The Nigerian-born, American Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, visited her old country on August 14, 2025. A consummate politician, she told the Bola Tinubu administration what it loves to hear: that it is doing quite well. She told the suffering population what they know: that they are suffering. She then presented […]

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Abdul Oroh is an unlikely avatar of the Nigerian dream. An Afenmai from Ivbiaro in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State in the south-south of Nigeria, Abdul had the privilege of seeing Nigeria’s promise at independence and its descent to the edge of the proverbial precipice. Born in August […]

When Karl Marx stated many years ago that “Religion is the opium of the people”, he didn’t know that people will rephrase it in later years It has been recoined today to state that football is the opium of the masses. That football can people temporarily forget their sufferings caused by bad governance, especially in […]

With the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999 after several years of military rule, many Nigerians had looked forward to a new way of life different from impunity, rigidity and on the spot decisions that can hardly stand the test of time. More than 25 years after, governance has only slightly moved away from […]

“The most moral man is not the one who restrains from evil, but he who does good” – Prof. Emevwo Biakolo, 1991, in The Guardian, 1991, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 164. Most Nigerians who have read quotations from the VBQ might be living under the impression that all the entries were from foreign lands […]

Have you heard of the ‘Cake Picnics’ that are happening around the world? During the summer period, bakers and cake enthusiasts organise ‘Cake Picnics’. It is a fairly straightforward concept. Invitations are sent out to people to attend the Cake Picnic, there is a modest admission fee, but the main criteria for attendance is you have […]

Beloved, if you have given your life to Christ, and you live your life in accordance with his word, you need not fear because you are surely an overcomer in Jesus name. When a Christian is overwhelmed with challenges, the person may be tempted to ask, “ why me? Why has this lasted for so long? […]

A marriage without intimacy is like a country with no currency.  It still exists on the map, but nothing of value is exchanging hands

Ogbeh’s life did not simply begin on 28 July 1947 in Otukpo, Benue State. It began in the quiet discipline of a boy whose soul belonged to Efugo

In Nigeria, turbulence begins long before take-off. It’s in the departure halls, on the tarmac, and down the aisles where power, fame, and temper take the cockpit

The acerbic attacks of Daniel Bwala at the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its triumphant 2023 presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, resurfaced this week as the political space again reflected on the fickleness of Nigerian politicians. In a social media post that has come to symbolise the mutability of Nigerian political actors, Bwala, who before the 2023 General […]

Some Nigerian female athletes recently brought continental honour home to us in two different sports in consecutive weeks almost. In doing so, they gave Nigerians some respite from the gloomy pall which now seems to hang permanently in the air like a dark cloud that is pregnant with rain. It was a joy seeing Nigerians at viewing […]