WHEN on March 15 last year, the Secretary of the Benin traditional council, Mr. Frank Irabor announced that “the leopard is ill in the Savannah bush”, we knew exactly what has happened to the OmoN’oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa (CFR), the 38th Oba of Benin, who was born on June 22, 1923 and ascended the throne on March 23, 1979. Well to an average Benin man or woman, such an announcement is well understood.

The following discussion took place on my Facebook friends page on May 2nd 2016. Since it is already in the public realm I have taken the liberty of.sharing it in my column as well.

GOING through Douglas Anele’s piece: ‘An unbeliever’s interpretation of Easter’ in the Sunday Vanguard of April 10 2016,one is left with one conclusion and that is; Christianity is truly a religion of peace, instead he would by now be hiding in a hole, shielding himself from the fatwa sentence that surely would have befallen him. Luckily for him, he knows the court to play his game because he cannot try it with every religion.

CHIEF Olisa Metuh on Friday April 16th informed Nigerians that the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, will be adopting this option in the selection of its candidates for the 2019 general election. He said the party has recognised that there is need to end its inglorious past of imposition of candidates by allowing members of the party to directly participate in the selection of its candidates.

IN Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s Abia State, there are cities, like a retarded child, that have refused to grow. They are not like the imbecile with a wobbling brain and cognition, or like the diminutive pigmies of Congo condemned to a life of the dwarfed, they are just simply stunted and scrawny in development.

Last week I wrote an essay titled ‘The Road To Kigali’ which was widely published.

The callous response of the northern governors to the horrendous events in Enugu has compelled me to write this contribution as something of a follow-up.

In 1994 almost one million Tutsis were murdered in cold blood in the space of one month by members of the ruling Hutu tribe in Kigali, Rwanda.

THE slave trade had made a number of states and towns on the coast extremely wealthy; these include many Ijaw towns – Bonny, Buguma, Okrika, Brass, Sapele, Koko, Calabar and so forth.

Some people assume that when they are not in charge of a body or organization, those who are there are not qualified to steer the ship of that body. That is the case with basketball in Nigeria since 2013 when the present board of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF led by an unassuming gentleman, Tijjani Umar took charge of the federation.

The repeal and re-enactment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation Act CAP N129, LFN 2004, 2015 (SB. 001) is targeted at re-vitalizing and enhancing the operational framework and removal of the impediments that hindered the international best practices within the rail transport sector. This Bill is currently at the committee level for public hearing, chaired by Senator Gbenga Ashafa.

Still in a mourning mood over the mindless massacre at Enugu by suspected Fulani herdsmen, the nation’s heavy heart was further daggered by what can best be described as the petulance of an arrogant set of governors from the northern part of the country who take pleasure in talking down on the other parts of the country and behave like a headmaster whose pupils must not have an opinion not to talk of expressing such without incurring his wrath.

Lagos to Abuja is a journey and most passengers embarking on this trip will always prepare their mind for it. You’re either ready to sleep or you’re ready to fight sleep with everything you can conjure till you get to where your final destination.

PART VII called the Miscellaneous Provisions restricts any legal action or suit against the commission. A written notice shall first be given to the commission of the intention to sue it or any member of the council; “No execution or attachment of process shall be issued against the commission without the consent of the Attorney General of the Federation”.

By Philip Agbese President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive for security agencies to go after armed attackers that had laid waste to several communities for several months now came as a relief as Nigerian had waited for it. His directive, which came to light through the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, offers some reassurance after the […]

MY attention has been drawn to an interview with one-time Deputy Governor of Edo State, Mr. Lucky Imasuen, published in Vanguard (Thursday, March 31).