By Tajudeen Kareem

As Nigerians grapple with the latest hike in electricity tariffs, soaring from N66 to N225 per kilowatt, concerns arise regarding its implications on the effective delivery of essential public services.

By Azu Ishiekwene

Before The Human Flow was published, Jonathan, one of Europe’s most accomplished foreign affairs columnists and journalists, had talked with excitement about the book. It was his first novel. Like a woman who became pregnant when she thought she was past child-bearing, Jonathan, 82, couldn’t wait to make Mary Wesley look like a child prodigy.

By Micheal Jegede

At the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), between November 30 and December 12, 2023, the Cross River State government under the astute leadership of Governor Bassey Edet Otu, demonstrated its commitment towards renewable energy development in the state.

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Majority of our leaders act like aliens in their scramble for Nigeria. They inspire each other with their uncommon craving for everything, including things they already have and will not need. They are not greedy. Their conduct is vastly worse than greed for it harbours an unquenchable desire for more at the expense of everything.

By Hassan Gimba

The chickens, the saying goes, always come home to roost. But some people would prefer to be Shakespearean by quoting the insightful words uttered by Marc Antony in William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, “the evil that men do lives after them while the good is oft interred with their bones.”

By Tolu Ogunlesi

Quite sad (but not surprising) that it's the 'freezer' comment that's totally dominated the headlines from yesterday's Electricity press briefing. There was a lot more that was said, that's useful to know, as background and basis for conversation and debate.

By Nelson Chukwudi

It is massive. It is gigantic. It is expensive. It is first of its kind. It is a legacy signature impression. It is the single largest infrastructure project ever undertaken by any sub-national government in Nigeria. It is the Port Harcourt Ring Road!

By Anietie Ekong

There is a general consensus that Nigeria had a glorious outing at the recently concluded 148th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) which was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Through the leader of the delegation and President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Nigeria’s voice reverberated across the world on the need for peace and conflict resolution through diplomacy.

By Jude Ogechi Eze

"Many a cross we bear is of our own manufacture; we made it by our sins. But the cross which the Savior carried was not His, but ours. One beam in contradiction to another beam was the symbol of our will in contradiction to His own. If Innocence itself took a Cross, then how shall we who are guilty complain against it?" — Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

By Micheal Owhoko, Ph.D

Has Nigeria learnt any lessons from the Okuama massacre? Will the incident repeat itself or offer profound lessons against future experience? In the journey of life, no individual or nation or country is immune from occurrences thrown up by circumstance, which, may be pleasant or painful. Lessons learnt from such experiences are deployed to prevent possible future reoccurrence, failing which, same catastrophe repeats itself.

By Emeka Obasi

Just when everyone believed Prof. Charles Soludo saw nothing attractive in Rangers, the Anambra State governor presented a pleasant surprise to club Veterans through a robust pay package. That gesture, well appreciated by many, must be handled with care.

By Opunabo Inko-Tariah

Rivers people have again been inundated with the persistent sobbing of the members of the 10th Rivers State House of Assembly, the latest being a press conference to pour venom and vituperation on Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his government.