If you are a media person, you sometimes may have to step into a radio booth, anchor a live television programme, moderate a podcast, or make a corporate broadcast to employees. One tool stands between your voice and your audience: the microphone. For many, this small piece of equipment feels intimidating. The red light flicks on, […]

There had been calls to high heavens from different quarters for a National Political Reform Conference. This is so because many believed that the 1999 Constitution bequeathed to us by the military does not adequately represent their interest and aspirations of over 200 tribes, ethnic groups in the geographical area christened Nigeria by Mrs. Lugard. To […]

In a world where distances to jurisdictions can be measured with a flip of the button, happenings between pay-TV operator, MultiChoice and the government of Ghana was keenly followed in Nigeria. In a quirk coincidence, the broadcaster was also having a load of problems in Nigeria and quite a number of people patiently monitored the Ghanaian […]

Siminalayi Fubara, the Governor of Rivers State, is poised to return to office tomorrow after the six months of imposed emergency rule by President Bola Tinubu lapses. Mr. Fubara has undergone the human equivalent of what technology experts call device reset. In the case of the governor, he seems to have experienced a brain reset. He […]

“History will judge those who stood by and said nothing, when they could have done something“–  The Honourable Jeremy Corbin, MP Eighty years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the United Nations was created as humanity’s great experiment in collective security and shared destiny. Its Charter promised to “save succeeding generations from the […]

Barring any last minute hitches, Amaopusenibo Siminalayi Fubara will be back to office as the Governor of Rivers State after enduring his six months “suspension” by President Bola Tinubu. He will not be the same confident, belligerent and defiant rebel who walked away from the Brick House, Port Harcourt on March 18, 2025. The Tinubu/Wike rain […]

From last week continues the statement by President Obasanjo in defence  of the  military invasion of Zaki-Biam in Benue State to avenge the killing of 19 soldiers whose mutilated bodies were found on October 12, 2001, near some Tiv villages. He argued that the deployment of soldiers in this regard was justified under the prevailing […]

“When problems come, they bring along all their relations”.– African proverb. At a Round-table on Electoral Reforms organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, last week in Abuja, the Chairman of the Commission made an important  foray into the forest of challenges which our electoral system needs to address. Please note I did not say […]

Aliko Dangote is a likeable man. He is into philanthropism, smiles and even dances in public. However, the issue is not his person but his businesses. In the last few years, he has been engaged in endless fights over the operation of his refinery. But one of  the most unnecessary is his fight with workers. Given the […]

In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable transition at the end of which he promised to hand over power to an elected civilian administration.