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A cursory glance at recent events in the political and socio-economic life of Nigeria has laid bare, amongst a host of myriad of problems bedeviling our dear nation, how fragile and thin our unity has waned. The near-economic collapse, the bastardization of our currency, and the alarming daily exodus of Nigerians, irrespective of age to […]

  I watched the minister of state for Labour and employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN) on Politics today, with Seun Okinbaloye, on Friday, August 6, 2022, and he made several claims, the most outrageous being that Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has more executive experience and capacity than Waziri Atiku Abubakar, the […]

I stumbled on a story in the Nigerian media which says that the National Assembly is planning to consider no fewer than 63 bills for the creation of new universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and monotechnics, and I wondered whether madness has finally descended on Nigeria’s education sector. Nigeria at the moment has about 49 […]

I am concerned, but not shocked in any way, that the most prominent reaction to the interview that Arise News conducted last week with the Presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has been sheer tittle-tattle about location, and format and silly ego games. It is a measure of the confusion in […]

We know they are lying,   They know they are lying,   They know we know they are lying,   We know they know we know they are lying,   But they are still lying.   Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn       Complicit   1. involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or […]

At the unveiling of the running mate of the APC presidential candidate, they keep happing on one national project that their team represents. And I ask, what is the content of that national project?   If ever there is such thing as a national project, when and who put the project together. When was it […]

This day, July 19 should go down as a special moment in the economic history of Nigeria – the day when the country’s main vehicle for economic survival, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is officially unveiled by the incumbent President as a commercial venture. The transition took effect on July 1, in line with […]

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say “This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can.” ~ Ani DiFranco.   The world is adrift in the tides of hunger and desolation. It is difficult to think about education, or anything […]

The ruckus that has been generated by the announcement of former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima as running mate of the Presidential standard bearer of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), for the 2023 Presidential election is a perfect illustration and yet another sharp reminder of how religion has driven a wedge among Nigerians. […]

Following APC Presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu choice of his running mate in Distinguished Senator Kashim Shettima for the 2023 presidential election, it has generated lots of debates and discussions across the polity and beyond with divergent views for and against the duo on the basis of their same religious faith. In addition, this […]

There is something unfamiliar that has been happening in Nigeria for some time now. And that thing is that, Nigerians seem to have in unison resolved to forget their religious differences, political disparities and their ethnic backgrounds to liberate themselves from political deceits in the hands of political deities and destiny killers who have shamelessly […]

  Rev Obinma Akukwe is glad that the Kaduna train terrorists who kidnapped about 70 passengers on a Kaduna bound on the day APC used consensus option to select a National Chairman, have released additional eleven of them, four days after the primary elections was conducted without consensus as we earlier predicted. I call upon […]