By DAUDA ILIYA Dr. Dele Sobowale has been every reader’s delight for decades now. His Sunday columns fill up our weekends. Dr. Sobowale writes in his own style: persuasive, lucid and witty. He has carved his own niche with his style of reaching out and pulling along his readers to whichever directions he desires, well-intentioned or […]

As someone born on May 27, the very day Nigeria sets aside to celebrate its children, this day holds a personal and profound meaning for me

By Onochie Jon-Igwesi On Thursday, October 13, 2022, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2023 general elections, as he then was, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, at the Law Auditorium of the Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, unveiled his manifesto before thousands of supporters. I recall that of the 4 major contenders […]

Announcement by the Federal Government to sell a massive real estate property linked to former Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele is not only troubling but also patently illegal

By AMINU JAHUN Treachery, ingratitude, hubris, opportunism, and contemptuous disregard of the people are the hallmarks of Nigerian politics. The unfortunate and inexcusable defections from opposition parties to the ruling party, could only be due to the contempt for Nigerian voters. Recently a former presidential running mate, and a current governor defected from their party to the […]

By ISMAIL AUWAL   There are stories that do not scream. They unfold not on television, social media scrolls or in the exaggeration of viral tweets but in moments of stillness, in places where peace used to be a stranger and is now fully settled. They whisper from war rooms lit by strategy, not spectacle. From farmlands where […]

By Mayor Eshanekpe Israel For decades, the Federal Government of Nigeria grappled with a persistent and deeply entrenched crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta: the rampant sabotage of oil pipelines, large-scale oil theft, illegal bunkering, and widespread environmental degradation. Billions of dollars were siphoned away annually, draining government revenues, discouraging foreign investment, and damaging critical […]

Marte, the headquarters of the eponymous Local Government  Area, LGA, on the western floodplains of the Lake Chad in Borno State, North-East Nigeria, has been a site of lingering contest between Nigerian troops on the one hand and Islamist insurgents of Boko Haram on the other for over one decade.  At 3,154 km 2, Marte LGA  is […]

By Justice Faloye  The new Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade’s visit to the Sultan of Sokoto, the head of the Afro-Arabic civilization, before visiting Ooni of Ife, the leader of the Indigenous African civilization of South and Middlebelt, raises concerns over the monarch’s understanding of the Yoruba cultural norms. Besides, the sideling of Oranmiyan […]

By Christopher Slater Watching Charles Aniagwu, Delta State Commissioner for Works (Rural and Public Communications), on Arise TV recently was not only disheartening—it was a national embarrassment. One expected measured words and clarity from a public officer occupying such a sensitive portfolio, but what was delivered instead was a vitriolic monologue riddled with historical inaccuracies, […]

Since September 2023 and despite the fantasies of NSA Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s internal security situation has disintegrated into mayhem

· A peep into the economic, education, interior agenda · The stand-out ministry, poster boy of administration By Nnamdi Ojiego At the midpoint of his first term, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has steered Nigeria through a landscape of complex economic, security, and governance challenges. Inheriting a nation grappling with inflation, dwindling oil revenues, and persistent […]

The widow of DIG Ibrahim Lamorde, Maryam Tijjani Habib, has penned an emotional tribute one year after the death of her huband, a former Chairman of the EFCC. “My beloved husband, my confidant, my playmate, and my rock, your passing has left a void in my life that cannot be filled”, she wrote in a […]

By Uche Aguoru In every generation, a few men rise not just to hold office but to define the spirit of their time. Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu is one of such rare men. In a political terrain that often rewards expediency over principle, and noise over substance, Ben Kalu stands tall: calm, persuasive, strategic, […]

By Emameh Gabriel Our elders have a saying that “A fish cannot grow fat in troubled waters.” And the gods of our land know that the waters in Okpella have been troubled for too long. Too many of our young men have been lost to the darkness of cultism and street violence. Strong, bright boys […]