PENULTIMATE weekend, Igbo leaders closed ranks and mandated an elder statesman and industrialist, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, to take over the mantle of leadership of the apex socio-cultural umbrella and leaders of thought, the Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo. Iwuanyanwu took up the challenge to fill the vacancy left behind by the late Professor George Obiozor whose sudden […]

THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, appears to be putting the scandals, shame and turpitude of the past eight years behind, moving towards a new future of strategic visioning. The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, worth $15 billion between the Commission and Atlantic Global Resources of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, reportedly an international infrastructure […]

WITH return of the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, from his one-month “rest” abroad, the All Progressives Congress, APC, leadership is meeting to agree on how to share top positions in the upcoming 10th National Assembly. That is to be expected. Obviously, the party is learning from its past “mistake” of letting members-elect of the Senate […]

THE conflict in Sudan is only a few weeks old but it has already pushed the Russian invasion of Ukraine which started in February 2022 to the back burner, for now. While the Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, led by Gen. Fattah al Burhan and Gen. Mohammed Dagalo (Hemedti’s) Rapid Support Forces, RSF, fight it out […]

AFTER the highly eventful 2023 general elections, the nation is ensconced in two major preoccupations on the political front. The first is the preparation for the swearing-in of the next Federal Government on May 29, 2023.  The other is entertainment of election petitions filed at the Court of Appeal by four aggrieved political parties and […]

THOSE who are always spoiling for war in Nigeria should take a look at what is happening in Sudan. A disagreement between the President and Head of the Sudanese military forces, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, and the leader of the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, has brought humanitarian crisis to the […]

WHO will save Nigeria from its “sacred cow” senior officials? People employed into public offices, given enormous powers and opulently catered for, see themselves as being above our laws and our sacred institutions.  The law is now only for the underprivileged who are violated even by the law enforcement agencies for doing the right thing.  […]

World Earth Day is an annual event that is celebrated on April 22 to raise awareness about environmental issues and promote actions for sustainable living. The theme for this year’s celebration, which fell on Saturday, is “Restore Our Earth”. It is focused on repairing the natural ecosystems that have been damaged by human activities such […]

MALARIA is a life-threatening disease, transmitted through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. The disease has become a serious epidemic in Africa, where more than 90 per cent of malaria deaths occur. The WHO’s World Malaria Report 2020 estimated that there were 229 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2019, with most of these […]

NIGERIANS were full of hope that the Professor Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, would conduct a general election in 2023 which would surpass the highly-applauded exercise handled by Prof. Attahiru Jega’s regime in 2015 in acceptability. But the fiasco of the presidential election on February 25, 2023 has continued to beget weird offspring […]