I first met Professor Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu in 2018 when he was daring to dream and trying to become the President of Nigeria. His razor-sharp erudition did not prevent him from being friendly and down-to-earth. He somehow managed to combine being a proud native of Anambra State and patriotic son of the Naija soil with being […]

I was in London when Kemi Badenoch, a British politician of Nigerian extraction was running against a white man called Robert Jenrick in a bid to become leader of the British Conservative party. At the same time and on the other side of the Atlantic, Kamala Harris, an American politician of Indian and Jamaican extraction, was running […]

My friend,  Ambassador Okey Emuchay MFR, Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, spoke for many of us (my mother was Igbo) when he penned this heartfelt lament and tribute to the most recent past President-General of the respected organisation.   It is addressed to Mr Jide Iwuanyanwu, the PG’s eldest son: “It is with a deep […]

By Jonas Odocha  Let us not delude ourselves; we need to come to terms with the real essence of governance. It encompasses various aspects of laws, policies, processes and management of resources which focus on the people and on development. Development, by itself, is predicated on value addition, failing which we either stagnate or retrograde. Please […]

Senators have just fast-tracked a bill to establish a new South-South Development Commission, SSDC, despite the long-standing existence of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Yesterday, the SSDC Bill passed second reading on the floor of the Senate. Lawmakers also proposed amendments to the new North-West Development Commission, NWDC, and South-East Development Commission, SEDC, Acts […]