ON Thursday, October 26, the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, Nigeria’s foremost think-tank on foreign affairs, will host the 2023 edition of TheNiche Annual Lecture spearheaded by the TheNiche Foundation for Development Journalism. The lecture series, TheNiche’s annual corporate social responsibility initiative, is aimed at fostering the much-needed but ever-elusive national renaissance. Nigeria is […]

For too long, Ndigbo have allowed outsiders to define them, most times negatively. For instance, you hear detractors deride them of lacking in political sagacity and putting all their political eggs in one basket.

We are in an era where a serving National Youth Service Corps member is at the same time a serving minister, where somebody nominated as a minister claims he sat for five subjects in his senior secondary school certificate examination, SSCE, obtained only two credits with which he secured admission into the university, and yet, the Senate shamelessly cleared him. Today, he sits in the Federal Executive Council, FEC, as a minister.

THE way Nigerians drop God’s name, you will be right to think that God has no other business in this universe other than to wait on the country and its wayward citizens. Many a time, you will hear sound bites such as: “Nigeria is God’s unfinished business. He will never abandon His children”, and you […]

AS President Bola Tinubu pretends to be providing leadership for our beleaguered country, one question remains unanswered: what to do with former President Muhammadu Buhari. In the eight years that Buhari, a putschist and former military head of state, held sway as civilian president, he destroyed the country, literally. In recent times, those who knew […]