The transformative Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is mired in endless controversies. This is the fate of great monuments and, I dare say, great leaders.  So, my primary concerns here are not the hullabaloos  about  its actual cost and absence of biddings or, its ever changing designs as it meanders through coast and land. My interest here is its […]

Can an entire month’s salary buy enough nutritious food to feed a family for a month?
For many Nigerians today, the answer is no

“In every community, there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them, we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably, the most dangerous people seek power” – Saul Bellow, 1915-2005, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 124. “It was beautiful and simple; as all truly […]

From history, it is easy to find reports on early Nigerian elections which reflected some high degree of crudity which were enough to convince everyone that even those declared as winners were themselves not persuaded that they went through what looked like an election. In those days, politicians won elections by pouring acid into the ballot […]

Last weekend, I finally got to binge-watch The Polygamist on Netflix. The show is based on ‘The Polygamist’, a book by Zimbabwean author Sue Nyathi. Not surprisingly, Sue Nyathi said in one of her interviews, that she drew on her experience of observing polygamous households as she was growing up. I had read some reviews […]

Brethren, we are gradually moving to the end of the seventh month. Let’s thank God for life. With a deep reflection, we’ll see that the LORD has indeed been good to us. If you were to pay  for oxygen that you breath daily, would you be able to pay?   Let’s appreciate the LORD for his mercy […]

On building a future for Nigeria’s football, Gusau cannot because he hasn’t put structures on ground for sustainable development.

Even the figures we elevate beyond humanity eventually return to it. The tears are not the story. The limitation is

Imagine a Senate edition of a reality show. The first task could be simple: “Housemates, debate national issues without turning the chamber into a theatre.”

A journey through blood, belonging, and the complicated search for the people who shape us before we even know their names.

Every purchase, every salary, every registered business, every investment decision, every rental agreement, and every commercial transaction is influenced, directly or indirectly, by tax policy.

Welcome to Canada, the land where Nigeria’s first Commonwealth gold medal was achieved by Arinze Ifeajuna at Vancouver 1954. Daniel Igali won Olympic gold for the North Americans and also captained the team. Joe Ehizode, like many Nigerians, has found home in Surrey, British Columbia. He was a sports journalist before relocating nearly three decades ago. Denying […]

If every major ally of Peter Obi behaved exactly like Alex Otti, the practical effect would be a significantly weakened, fragmented, and less confrontational opposition ahead of 2027. And this isn’t because , he didnt move to the NDC with Peter Obi. No, far from it. This is because if  all Obi’s allies adopted the same stance, […]

Politics is often less about the event itself than about the timing of the event. A document released today may have been written weeks earlier, but when it surfaces at a politically sensitive moment, it immediately acquires a meaning far beyond its contents. That is the context in which the recent exchange involving President Bola Tinubu, former […]

This is the sixtieth year – to the week – of the July 1966 coup that has been infamously regarded as a counter-coup. A coup thatunfortunately marked the degeneration of a Nigeria that our fore fathers strove for and tried to build.A coup that subsequently led to a thirty- month Civil War which still leaves a lingering […]