By Sufuyan Ojeifo

Section 14(2)(b) of the Constitution of the Federal republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) declares that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government. It is this primary purpose that provides the basis for approbation of and association with government by the governed. Any government that fails to discharge this primary responsibility fails, as a matter of fact, in every other purpose. Rationalisation: there cannot be meaningful journey to any meaningful destination in the consideration of government and its policy options if the most significant questions of security and welfare are egregiously discounted.

By Funke Egbemode

Ola: Men are foolish, very foolish.

Lola: Ah ah, what’s biting you? How can you just wake up and make such a blasphemous declaration?

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

WHEN Professor Benjamin Nwabueze died on 29 October 2023, one thought it was time to stop deriding him as the one who applied his legal prowess to author the Unification Decree, they say caused the cessation of federalism in Nigeria. The lies have been built around propaganda applied to situate how Igbos ruined Nigeria with their ambition to dominate the country through Nwabueze.

By Bolanle Bolawole

Those who say life is not a straight line may be right! It is topsy turvy, full of curves, surprises and happenings that can hardly be explained satisfactorily. Niger State-born Justice Musa Datijjo Muhammed became more popular; nay, controversial, on the day he was retiring from the Supreme Court Bench than the 45 awesome years he had spent sitting on it.

By Simon Kolawole

Long ago, I read the story of a young boy whose mum gave two 10 kobo coins on a Sunday morning. “This 10 kobo is for offering. The other one is for sweets after service,” the mum instructed him. The boy kept the coins in his breast pocket. On his way to church, one of the coins fell out of his pocket as he jumped over a ditch. The boy shook his head and said: “Dear God, there goes your 10 kobo.” Sense won’t kill him! That is the selfishness always at play whenever the Nigerian economy is in a bad state: the little resources left are for the comfort of our leaders and the brunt of the crunch is to be borne only by the people. It always happens. Nothing ever changes in our dearly beloved country.

By Emeka Obasi

Dr. Amina Abubakar Bello is the only Nigerian whose dad was Head of State, mother First Lady, husband Governor, Father - in - law Double Excellency and dad's course mates, military rulers. That is not why I am praising her here.

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Nyesom Wike under-rates the purpose of power because he cannot understand it. He is too far gone succeeding without qualms and minimal scruples that he is another great example of how personal quests would increase distractions in Nigeria's nebulous journey to nationhood.

By Azu Ishiekwene

Elections in Nigeria this year might be nearly over but the war by other means could well receive fresh fire from three state elections this weekend.

By Dr Alex Chioma Otti (Governor Abia State)

Being A Speech Delivered By the Governor on the Occasion of the Centenary Celebration of The Seventh-day Adventist Church In Eastern Nigeria on Saturday, November 4, 2023, at the Enyimba Sports Stadium, Aba.

By Funke Egbemode

Nse has become a comic character in her husband’s office. Once she drives in through the gates, the staff, especially the girls, start making faces, calling one another’s attention to the arrival of ‘Madam Godzilla.’

By Azu Ishiekwene

Former vice president and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, said on Monday that Nigeria was the bigger loser in last week’s decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. That was a convenient exaggeration to hide his misery.

By Ola Awoniyi

The inauguration of the 10th Senate in June was accompanied by the usual political drama that open new dispensations at the National Assembly. Many observers took the keenly contested leadership elections in the chamber as further signals that Nigeria is a thriving democracy. The new leadership of the Senate under Godswill Obot Akpabio, like the pilot of an aircraft taking off in rough weathers, encountered a slight turbulence before getting to cruising altitude. But it has since stabilized and the 10th Senate is well into its four-year journey.