Like most scientists propelled by the quest for knowledge and concern for humanity, Prof. Hawking worked hard and used different media, particularly television to make science accessible to a wider audience worldwide

Nigeria is a theatre of the absurd and, to be candid, this government is increasingly looking like the worst administration in Nigerian history

Nigeria got her best rating in the corruption perception index of Transparency International (TI) during Jonathan’s presidency

Overall, Buhari’s economic team, if there was anything like that at the time, lacked creativity and technical knowledge needed to pull Nigeria out of economic doldrums

In a sense, Obasanjo’s greatest achievement was the actualisation of Gen. Murtala Mohammed’s pledge that Nigeria would be returned to democratic rule by October 1, 1979

The former eastern region had been forced back to Nigeria through violence, but deep down the Igbo people themselves did not fully embrace the forced remarriage

After the ill-advised military coup of January 15, 1966, the military officers that emerged as leaders inherited the onerous task of nation building

The question now is: how many of those that have emerged at the forefront of political leadership in Nigeria actually possess those intellectual, moral and spiritual characteristics Plato recommended as essential for good leadership?

Most times human beings do not really value what they have until they lose it, which often results in pain and regret. As a result, I try my best to thank people that have helped me in one way or another

No one who reads the gospels dispassionately would fail to notice that they were intended to be understood as trustworthy factual accounts of actual events

Of course, despite the powerful blizzard of buharimania before the 2015 presidential election, I was very sceptical of APC’s change slogan; the bulk of prominent APC members were turncoats from the PDP looking for a different platform to continue their Machiavellian political praxis

The I-don’t-care attitude of President Muhammadu Buhari to the concerns of Ndigbo is not new; it was the stock-in-trade of military dictatorships headed by northerners from August 1, 1966 to 1979, and from 1984 to 1999.

The Igbo survived the Biafran war and, through dogged determination and individual effort, managed to pull themselves from the slough of despond, from the black hole of terrible trauma caused by the conflict

My first encounter with Femi Adesina around 2010 was when I served as external member of the editorial board of the Sun Newspapers. Amanze Obi, a friend and classmate at the University of Lagos who was the substantive chairman of the board, had gone on leave of absence to take up commissionership appointment with Ikedi Ohakim, former governor of Imo State, and Adesina became chairman in his stead.

Why was he insisting that Ndigbo should forget Biafra, the most significant event in modern Igbo world, and in Nigerian history aside from the amalgamation and independence?