Biodun Jeyifo (1946-2026), by Obi Nwakanma
There are these times when uttering words feel too overwhelming, because words sometimes weigh like stones. Such moments are like now, when we must make offerings to the memory of a man like Biodun Jeyifo – BJ for short. At his death, I was too tongue-tied to make appropriate tribute. In these times, when vulgar […]
Biafra, or an oasis of prosperity
Let me be on the record, and say that I align myself ideologically with those who seek the right to self-determination as a fundamental human right. This right is enshrined in the charter of the United Nations of which Nigeria is a signatory.
The power of siddon look
Those who claim that the Sit-At-Home strikes in the South East are affecting only the economy of the South East are fibbing.
Why Nigeria drifts
There is corruption in Nigeria. But corruption is not the real or the major problem of Nigeria. The real problem of Nigeria is a systemic failure.
Buhari commissions a gutter in Owerri [OPINION]
When presidents make state visits, there’s always a fanfare of drums, iron clatters; a flourish of trumpets; a tumultuous crowd of flag-waving, and patriotic people eager to welcome them and show them some love.
Hogwash from the ‘presidency’ [Opinion]
dore of the Nigerian Navy and operative of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), a cloak-and-dagger arm of the Nigerian Military Services took a risk when two weeks ago he outed, or “declassify” himself on Channels TV.
Two magnificent women
In 1975 my family relocated from Ibadan, Western Nigeria, to the East – or what was then the East Central State.
One Wedding, And A Funeral
Mr Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria, returned from his medical trip in the UK just in time to prep up, and attend his son, Yusuf’s wedding ceremony. Yusuf, the president’s son was getting hitched to Zahra, the daughter of the Emir of Bichi.
Buhari and His Medical Trips
News is that Mr Muhammadu Buhari returned to Nigeria on Thursday from the UK where he has spent two weeks attending an “education summit” and attending to his private medical concerns.
A Supercop in Super Trouble
So, come dawn, and light shines on all dark and hidden corners. This is the situation now with a man who has been given what may turn out to be an unearned title, “super cop” – Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abbas Kyari. DCP Kyari seems to have landed in deep trouble with the American Federal Bureau of Investigations, FBI.
An obnoxious electoral law
The outrage over the bill sponsored by Mr Olusegun Odebunmi, APC member from Oyo State in the House of Reps, to basically regulate media practice in Nigeria out of existence had hardly died down when the National Assembly on Thursday foreclosed what many Nigerians, particularly those who sincerely wish for a clean electoral process, actually see as an opportunity to indemnify Nigeria against national electoral fraud.
