President Tinubu was in Anambra. The timing of the visit was ominous. Anambra governorship elections are due in November. Southern first-term governors from opposition parties are defecting in droves to Tinubu’s party. Soludo didn’t defect but a defection might have been more hygienic. Soludo showcased his projects and swore allegiance to Tinubu. Soludo was within his right […]

•Behind Her Halo, A Father’s Unspoken Truth By Stephanie Shakaa  They say every story has two sides.  But in many homes,especially African homes, perhaps even globally only one is ever truly heard. The nurturing, sacrificial, ever-loving mother becomes the bedrock of childhood nostalgia. She is immortalized in memory, sanctified in speech. Songs are sung in her […]

In the 80s, as mass communication students, they drove it into our heads that the “pen (mass media) is mightier than the sword.” Consequently, we were taught and admonished to exercise this enormous powers with great restraint. This was partly what four years studying mass communication in the university entailed. Then there were basically two types of […]

I should have given a thought to it but I didn’t. The breeze coming through the open French windows had become distinctively cooler and fresher, meaning it could rain. Instead, groggy with sleep, I covered my head and snuggled into my pillow for warmth. Then, in the small hours of the morning, the breeze brought […]

A frightening total of 9,757 migrants died in 2024 while trying to reach Spain by sea. The Spanish migration group, Camindo Fronteras –Walking Borders, reported that 1,538 of the victims were children and 421 women. These were migrants heading for Spain alone. There are the larger numbers trying to reach other European countries. There are the […]

LAST Tuesday, tomfoolery in full technicolour was on display at an event — a colloquium on the Nigerian Communications Act, NCA, 2003, titled: “22 years after, Reassessing the Nigerian Communications Act – Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions for a Digital Nigeria.” The event held at the Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos. That spectacular show of tomfoolery is another […]

I saw this little narrative online: They asked the Pharoah: “What made you a tyrant?” He said: “Nobody stopped me”. Someone recently asked me why the former Rivers Governor and current FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, struts around like an emperor. My wry response was: “Because he can.” Long story short: If you allow individuals who have […]

Going by media reports, the relationship between Bola Tinubu and the Northern part of Nigeria (“the North”), which gave him the presidency in 2023, is frayed and may snap in 2027. The North, we are told, is regretful that despite pulling all the stops to put Tinubu in power, he’s neglectful of, even indifferent to, the […]

Former governor of Delta State and vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 elections, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has been in the news in recent times following his defection from the political party that made him a commissioner, secretary to state government, senator and governor, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. […]

What we see across the country today can only be surmounted through a decisive Presidential agenda devoid of politics and sentiments. Alhaji Shehu Shagari, faced with similar security threats, wasted no time in restoring order. Shagari was still in his first year in office when Islamic fundamentalists, led by Muhammadu Marwa, better known as Maitatsine, visited terror […]

Did you know that as readers of this insightful column, you can write to me to request topics of interest to be written on? Yes, you heard that right. This week’s article is one of such articles based on request. So, let’s get down to it. In journalism and content creation, headlines serve as both invitation […]

Back in early March this year, Fulani terrorist militias masquerading as “herdsmen”, launched one of their vicious attacks on Eha Amufu, a peaceful farming community in Isi Uzo LGA, Enugu State. They perpetrated their trademark crimes of killings, raping, abduction of unspecified number of defenceless farmers, destruction of farms and feeding of crops to their animals. […]

Readers may still remember my concluding thoughts from the second of my two-part series on the Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Senator Godswill Akpabio’s saga on March 19 this year. Whatever direction the saga ended, the career of the two combatants, either in manipulative conduct or making inappropriate comments, was about being terminated, I said. The twist […]

“Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying out that ideal into practice”–   Arnold Toynbee The state of our nation today calls for an honest and critical self-appraisal. We have become […]

The late dramatist and playwright, Professor Ola Rotimi, once wrote a play, Holding Talks. In this work, which falls under the genre of theatre of the absurd, two characters are having a conversation forever or will ad nauseam be a better word. In this conversation, there is neither head nor tail and the repetition can be […]