THE period between Christmas and the new year for most people is a time for sober, deep and wide reflections, which may include their spiritual life in the fading year, and what to do in the new year to repair their relationship with their creator, or improve on it where a relationship existed, and to give more to the community, society, etc. Others use the period to celebrate their successes, eat, make merry, gain a few weight which they will struggle to shed in the New Year.

THIS is indeed a critical period of our national life when a raging war on desperate terrorists has kept military operations in North-East and others parts of the North in persistent media spotlight. And as would be expected, the subject now dominates the country’s Online media conten

MORE than any other aspirant to Nigeria’s presidency in recent times, General Muhammadu Buhari has received the most criticism for his brand of politics, his undignified utterances and what many view as desperation. Buhari does not come across as an overly ambitious Nigerian politician but that posturing is just on the surface. Behind that façade that he is in politics for altruistic reasons lies a deep-seated craving for power which has been obvious since his much criticized overthrow of the Shagari presidency in 1983. Not only did his coup plot set the country backwards by several decades, the way he went about exercising his power gave the first revelation of his character as a man whose decision can be biased by extraneous considerations.

I was preparing my regular end of year/beginning of the New Year analysis on Nigeria when the airwaves where almost physically assaulted by the unexpected and unexplainable call by the Buhari Campaign Organization of the All Progressive Congress, APC, to the military to mutiny!

LUCKILY for the Ijaw man who had no shoes but managed by a combination of hard work, a studious mind, the cunningness of a boa constrictor – many thanks to his adept study of zoology – and of course, a large dose of divine intervention which many ignorantly like to pass off as good luck, he is today, arguably, the most powerful man in the black world.

By Sunny Ikhioya ONE thing that has characterised us as a nation is self denial. We run away from the truth as long as the pinch is not on our foot directly. How is it possible to have solutions to the multiple challenges facing us if we are afraid to diagnose correctly the problems facing […]

Futureview Group, CEO, Mrs. Elizabeth Ebi announces a new Futureview Research initiative on Resource Control in Nigeria. Futureview will look to examine all 36 states in Nigeria and both tapped and untapped opportunities in their natural resource usage. Futureview is a leading investment bank in Nigeria.

But I am not what you would call a religious person. In fact, I regard religion a major contributor to the world’s problems. Take Nigeria for example: Here’s is a country that’s crying out for a revolution, a country crying out to be rescued. But its Christian citizens have been largely stultified, mumufied. They would rather pray (while collecting bribes) and wait for God and his angels to march down from Heaven to sort things out for them. The Muslims? Well, there’s suicide bombing if things are not exactly going your way.

After a lot of speculations and behind-the-scene manipulations, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, presented Professor Yemi Osinbajo to the public as his running mate for the 2015 presidential election. The choice was not a great surprise, since the Professor’s name had always been in the air as one of the dark horses for the position.

I met Ambassador Emmanuel Oseimiegha Otiotio in 1998 while I was Deputy Bureau Editor in the Abuja Office of Vanguard newspapers. At his instance, I attended a lunch meeting, in his house at the “E” wing of the Apo Legislators’ Quarters, which provided an opportunity to let us into his political plans and build a friendship that has, since then, flourished.