By M.O Ene Senator Natasha Hadiza Akpoti has become a hot political petrel. A maritime myth about storm petrels is that the seabirds predict weird weather. Mariners imagine them as possessing the souls of sailors lost at sea. Natasha may be forecasting a politically stormy season and embodying the souls of some Nigerian political amazons. … [Read more…]
By Femi Falana In 2010, our law firm handled the case of Hon Dino Melaye and 10 other legislators who were suspended for accusing the Dimeji Bankole-led House of Representative of wallowing in corruption. The Federal High Court declared the suspension of the legislators illegal and unconstitutional and ordered the payment of their withheld salaries … [Read more…]
By Monday Uzor, PhD As Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru celebrates his 50th birthday on February 25, 2025, it’s an opportune moment to reflect on his impactful leadership in Ebonyi State. Born on February 25, 1975, in Oferekpe Agbaja, Izzi Local Government Area, Governor Nwifuru’s journey from humble beginnings to the state’s highest office exemplifies dedication … [Read more…]
O proud daughter of the Irokos, Woman of no mean linage, Cub of the tigers and tigresses, The intoxicating beauty of her time, Beauty that dizzied the heads of men, Though thou art robbed by time and toil And though no longer art thou That tall, fresh, provocative frame, Which we knew and heard of, … [Read more…]
The death of Chief (Dr.) Sen. Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, OFR, CON, the Ijaw National Leader, Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF and National Leader of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum SMBLF, on Monday, February 17, 2025 marks the end of an enviable era in the political discourse of Nigeria. The death … [Read more…]
My father was a professor, and we lived on the University of Nigeria campus in a house full of books; bougainvillea plants lined our driveway in splashes of purple. This was the small, gated world of my childhood: I went to the university primary school, the university children’s library, the university chapel for Sunday Mass. … [Read more…]
By FEMI ADESINA The ruckus over a new (which is in fact old) National Anthem has subsided. And as with many other things, Nigerians have moved on. We always do. For those of us who were in school in the 1960s and 70s, ‘Nigeria We Hail Thee’ was the staple we fed on. It was … [Read more…]
By Okey Ikechukwu Let us start the new year on this column by looking at the mining sector and some matters arising therein. This is particularly important because of the much-talked-about need for alternative streams of largescale income for the nation. About two weeks ago the ban on solid minerals exploration and exploitation in Zamfara … [Read more…]
By Oseloka H. Obaze President Bola Tinubu’s Maiden Presidential Media Chat on 23 December, 2024, elicited understandable eclectic reactions. There were rave reviews and some unfavourable judgments. As 2024 ends and Nigerians behold 2025, there will be more punditry and assessments of the 500-and-something days of Tinubu’s rulership and a peep into the crystal ball … [Read more…]
I am of the Igbo stock from Ukala-Okpunor in Oshimili North LGA of Delta State. I am 61 years of age and have from late 1965, during my undergraduate days at Downing College, Cambridge, England, been fascinated by my people, the Igbo, and specifically by what makes them such a pulsating enigma of a people. … [Read more…]
Nigeria’s paradox is that it is as simple as it is complex. In Nigeria, both the simple and complex are fungible. Primarily, Nigerians make simple and straightforward issues unnecessarily complex. Bad leadership, in turn, compounds already complex issues. The sum total of this byzantine political alchemy is that in her sixty-four years of independence, Nigeria’s … [Read more…]
Publication sponsored by: IKENGA NKANU WORLDWIDE Raymond Nwobodo Okenwa was born on April 18, 1949, into the Royal Family of Igwe Ogbuzulu Okenwa Nwadenyi, Igwenezoruoha I, of the Umuokenwa Nwedenwachi Clan in Umuchiani, Oruku, Nkanu-East Local Government Area (LGA) and Madam Mary Nebiem Okenwa, from Umuchinwoko in Akpugo, Nkanu-West LGA. Both parents came from esteemed … [Read more…]