When someone or an entity begins to offer commendations it is proper to first review antecedents, motives, affiliations and any other variable that will give indications as to the true intent of the commendation. These same sets of considerations should apply when condemnations are also coming instead of commendations. One must know what interest an organisation serves before making much out of its utterances.

For more than 10 months after it lost a historic election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was transfigured from the renowned ‘lion of Africa’ into a sleeping lion.

IT was such a horrendous scene that I couldn’t get over for some time. I left home for work that fateful day, looking forward to an eventful day.

A POPULAR Nigerian local parlance says if there are too many fragment in gari (cassava flour), the blind would get to know. This has become the lot of Nigerians with the 2016 Federal government budget brouhaha. First, Nigerians were alarmed shortly after the formal presentation of the N6.3 trillion budget by President Muhammad Buhari, then the budget was missing!

DEMOGRAPHICALLY, the Itsekiri people constitute a minute minority – a kind of microcosm in a macrocosm in the geo-political and heterogeneous nation called Nigeria. The history and origin of the Itsekiri people like other tribal groupings in the Old Western region of Nigeria, remains unambiguously lucid.