When news broke that Aso Rock was going solar, a few clapped. Some saw it as a bold move toward sustainability

By Emeka Obasi As the first governor of Kwara State, Brigadier David Laisi Bamigboye began the process of Reconciliation in 1967 long before Gen. Yakubu Gowon made  the ‘No Victor, No Vanquished’ proclamation at the formal end of the Civil War on January 15, 1970. Bamigboye, then a 27 – year – old Major, had […]

Father Alia is at his wits’ end.  Under his watch, Benue has become a human abattoir, a slaughter field where hope bleeds out. As the sore he inherited festers and turns gangrenous under his nose, he dithers and waffles, unruffled. Alia’s phlegmatic calm mocks the screams of his people. While Benue, slashed and fractured, writhes in […]

Last Sunday was Father’s Day, but I was distracted. I felt like calling two people I had discussions with last week to find out if their sons also sent Happy Father’s Day wishes to them. The wishes would have been hollow rituals. They told me during the interactions which took place at different times that were thinking […]

The circumstances surrounding Vice President Kashim Shettima over his prospects in the 2027 presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC are not surprising in Nigeria. Almost all sitting vice-presidents since the advent of the Fourth Republic with the notable exception of Namadi Sambo faced scrutiny on retaining their slots in the election for a second term. […]

I will call him John for the purpose of this article. He is one of the internally displaced persons living in the camp at Yelwata. IDP camps are dotted all over parts of the north as a sign of the times we live in – but that is a story for another day. John had gone […]

On paper, it looked like a mismatch. Iran is not only one of the oldest and most established places in the Persian Gulf but also at least 75 times the size of Israel, with a population nine to ten times larger. Size for size, it’s a modern-day David and Goliath match-up, with ancient history squarely on […]

SO, Mr President finally found his way to Benue State, more than two years after he assumed office. That visit was coming after no less than 10,217 persons, mostly defenceless women and children, the old and infirm, got killed in the two years that Tinubu had been president. The figures are those of rights watchdog, Amnesty International. […]

Three events made Monday, June 16, 2025, a sobering moment for me. On that day, back in 1976, news filtered that the killer Apartheid security forces which had been terrorising African countries like Zambia, Botswana and Lesotho, had turned on unarmed school children in South Africa. The Nigerian society was so conscious then that I recall […]

Mark Nwagwu  is  a multi-talented  88-year-old  professor of cell and molecular biology. He has 12 books to his credit, including four poetry collections  that were    dedicated to his dear  late  wife, Professor Helen Onyemazuwa Nwagwu.  Prof,  a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science  and    Association of Nigerian Authors, is currently (and amazingly, given […]

As the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 elections, Bola Tinubu must have laughed his head off when in August 2022, his running-mate, Kashim Shettima, hubristically dished out presidential responsibilities at the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Lagos. “I have been in the theatre of conflicts […]

Recently, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, the outgoing president of the African Development Bank, AfDB, stirred the hornet’s nest when he said Nigeria’s GDP per capita was $1,847 in 1960 but $824 in 2025, implying that Nigeria is poorer today than at independence. In an ill-tempered response, Bayo Onanuga, President Tinubu’s special adviser on information and strategy, accused […]

A journalist friend recently confided in me his confusion about when to use “will” versus “would” in his reporting. “I know they’re both about the future,” he said, “but I’m never sure which one sounds right.” His honest admission sparked this week’s column because mastering these two words can transform your professional writing from uncertain to […]

After two years as President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu has the last chance to prove himself in the Benue and Plateau theatres of the Fulani herdsmen genocidal attacks on indigenous Nigerian communities. These terrorists drawn from domestic and foreign Fulani jihadist bandit groups were named by the Global Terror Index back in 2014 as the fourth […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be arriving Makurdi, the Benue State capital, sometime today on a condolence visit to a people who have suffered under terror groups that have massacred families and sacked communities across the state and the wider territories of the North- Central region. Given how long the attacks have continued and the […]