On May 11, 2025, the title of this Column was ‘Revisiting Alao Committee Report’ and I began by quoting Luke Chapter 22:2 which states that “there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.” I will rerun part of it here to show that we tried as much […]

Beloved, we are familiar with the Holy Bible passage in Hebrews 12 vs. 2 ( KJV): “ Looking unto Jesus  the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy  that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set  down at the right hand of the throne of God” Brethren,  […]

With the All Progressives Congress (APC) faltering under the weight of its own promises, the opposition ironically seems even more confused

Answered prayers have their own burden. They arrive not always with joy, but often cloaked in discomfort, duty, and a peculiar silence

DANFO LETTERS Egbon Alex, My dear Belarusian, zip your lips. I go lie for you? Journalists are circling like ants on spilled sugar, all smiles but with sinister pens. Your job now is to protect the integrity of our beloved president, your supposed school mate. They will nose for gossip  and dirt. What both of you did […]

No individual did more for the Igbo after the genocidal Civil War than Ajie Ukpabi Asika, a First Class Economist produced by the University of Ibadan, who was appointed Administrator of East Central State in 1967. Strangely, those who should praise him only remember that he did not support Biafra. Asika and his wife, Chinyere, returned from […]

Recently, I heard some very touching stories about new marriages, some less than six months, running into troubled waters or crashing. Apparently, these young couples have made or are making some elementary mistakes. When this column started about 10 years ago, we touched on some of these errors, but we have a new audience of newlyweds or […]

The fine print of the agreement reconciling Governor Siminilayi Fubara of Rivers State and his estranged political godfather, Nyesom Wike, was, as of press time, yet to be spelled out. It is, however, dead-on to say that the agreement came at a point in time that presidential historians may consider as the defining point in the Bola […]

‘Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you”. My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.” That was Barbara Walters, the celebrated broadcaster, the first female face on TV in the US – aptly described as the most important woman in the history […]

There is a widening revolution in our world spearheaded by the demographic cohort globally referred to as Gen Z, short for Generation Z

The world must never forget the month of June 1976. And it is not because in that month I was freshly minted as a graduate of Mechanical Engineering, travelled to Europe for the first time in my life, and achieved what all athletes devote their entire careers trying to attain – the status of a […]

The proper thing to do when readers respond to a newspaper article is to respect their right of reply. There were two irate responses to my article last week, “Not the Iran We Thought It Was: What Has Changed in the Persian Gulf.”  One, entitled “Not the Azu We Thought He Was,” by Yakubu Musa, a […]

So many affronts have been inflicted on my home state, Rivers, this year, the three worst outrages being the suspension of Governor Sim Fubara, the imposition of a completely unnecessary state of emergency on March 18 and the indefensible appointment this week of a non-indigene (Dr Ekpai Odey) to the chairmanship of RSIEC, our allegedly independent electoral […]

I AM almost sure that there are very few Nigerians who do not know that a lot of things are not well with our country at this point in time. It is trite to restate that insecurity is worsening, while the economy remains in the doldrums. Cost of living continues to soar as prices of just […]

I went to a meeting in Abuja with the visiting Western Sahara –Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic- Foreign Minister. It was arranged by Ambassador Brahim B. Buseif, the country’s ambassador in Nigeria. I was received by Buseif and a friend, Mohammed Yeslem Beisat. Since 2020, he had been Sahrawi Ambassador to South Africa and Lesotho, and for […]