The stupefying “I don’t care” attitude with which Nigerians have greeted the terrible news that three West African nations have taken their exit from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is alarming. Hey, why would we have so under-appreciated the idea of ECOWAS? Or is it because ECOWAS never really achieved what it […]

What Nigeria is going through now, be it religious, ethnic, social, political and economic, national insecurity, uncontrolled militancy and banditry, all our national ills, were disasters that were clearly foretold in a major publication. Next month will mark the 30th anniversary of Robert D. Kaplan’s “THE COMING ANARCHY – How scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease are […]

I will never forget the sad and saddening picture of the late Amarachi Ugochukwu, the 32-year old staff of Globus Bank, Ikorodu, Lagos, who committed suicide on 8 January 2024. She had gulped down a toast of Sniper insecticide; the entire bottle. What made her forgo and override the most basic of instincts; personal or […]

Saturday 2nd of December, 2023, the Western Delta University (WDU), Oghara, Ethiope West LGA, Delta State, is the hub of the universe for the students involved in today’s convocation; the 11th – 13th combined convocation ceremony 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023 academic sessions. Ah, the first post-Covid-19 convocation! After years of diligent studies, the students will be getting their […]

Mr. Chiedu Ebie, a lawyer, has been prepared by his experience as Secretary to the Delta State Government. And oh, he has the pedigree, too.

It is a testimony to the lack of due regards for high achievers that anyone with the brain of a flea, would be passing judgment a giant of academics and jurisprudence in Nigeria, while dealing in matters totally beyond his level of understanding.

We may split hairs over Palestine and Philistine. The Biblical Philistines died out eons ago, just like the 10 out of the 12 tribes of Israel, with just two tribes, Judah and Israel, surviving

There are some people out there that death has taken every warmth from their lives.  My heart goes out to them. Death is awful. Were it not for the existence of God, this life would actually be as meaningless as Shakespeare put it in Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5

Before Nigeria cut off electricity supply to the Niger Republic, how many past Nigerian Presidents and Heads of Government, say Gens Olusegun Obasanjo or Ibrahim Babangida did President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ask for advice? Did he even contact Prof Bola Akinyemi who played a key role in energizing Nigerian diplomacy in the mid-‘1970s and 1980s? […]

Victor’s life was brief; actually fleeting and in less than 30 years he was gone. Yet, in that short spell, he shone like a shooting star, a meteor streaking across the dark night, providing illumination, providing glorious and heavenly beauty, warming hearts buffeted by vicissitudes of life, lifting up faces which life’s hardships had cast […]

In the series of articles I wrote in 2018, I focused on endowment of funds to universities as the only way to keep them alive. So, may we please revisit what took place at the Western Delta University (WDU), Oghara on this year’s 29th of April. It was more than just an ordinary 15th Founders’ […]

By Tony Eluemunor Hey, could you please allow me to begin this piece by making two important explanations. First, I deliberately chose to recall the novel  Cyprian Ekwensi published in 1960 because I wanted to recall in the minds of those who have read that unforgettable story how something as ordinary as a traveler’s passport […]

By Tony Eluemunor Veterinary Dr. Victor Abunwa, of the Delta state’s Ministry of Agriculture had left the festivities of 2nd January 2023 behind, at Ubulu-Uku, Delta state, to answer the call of duty…from a farm in another town. Then, right there at Ubulu-Uku, a Siena van collided with his Toyota Corolla right in front of […]

By Tony Eluemunor Monday February 20, 2023, I had a lot of free time on my hand. I was in a bank in the Central Business District, Abuja in a long queue with some unfortunate Nigerians waiting for hours just to withdraw money from our own bank accounts. After about four hours of standing in […]

By Tony Eluemunor Hey, what has happened to the panel which President Muhammadu Buhari set up in 2016 to uncover the assassins that cut down Chief Aminasoari Kala (A.K) Dikibo and Chief Bola Ige? This Saturday February 4th marks exactly 19 years since Dikibo, the then Vice-Chairman, South-South of the then ruling party (Peoples Democratic […]