By Ola Awoniyi

Nigeria is passing through a difficult period. The challenges are in many fronts and require the collaboration of all stakeholders to address for the sake of Nigerians. So the visit last week, of the top managers of the Nigerian economy, to the National Assembly was in that direction.

By Bolanle Bolawole

“There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. I am the state” – France’s King Louis XIV.

By Bashir Adigun

A certain Professor Aderibigbe in a recent public lecture shocked us by his surprising apparent ignorance of basic factors igniting the food crisis in Nigeria, nay the world.

By Emeka Obasi

As governor of Imo State, Dee Sam Mbakwe wept for his people to be treated with all decency due citizens of a nation. In death, the tears continued to roll until the gods of the land visited Government House Owerri to say hello to incumbent governor, Hope Uzodinma.

By Ugorji Okechukwu Ugorji

One of the most important highlights of the opportunity Governor Hope Uzodimma, CON gave me to serve in his cabinet was the honour of meeting and working with Professor Placid Njoku. The former Deputy Governor of Imo State turns seventy-seven years old this month of February, 2024.

By Zayd Ibn Isah

Few deaths in Nigeria have shaken the country as much as that of Herbert Wigwe.

By Emeka Omeihe

A number of events last week, appear to have unearthed a new dimension to the escalating insecurity in the country. They have to do with the challenge of truck loads of people who claim to be hunters but whose manner of entry into some communities in south has continued to raise serious apprehension.

By Gov Alex Otti

Herbert why? Why? Why? You told me you were going for a board meeting in London from where you will head out to the US and return after a few days and immediately come to Abia to see me. So, what happened?

By Azu Ishiekwene

As the troubled Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) convenes its Ministerial Council meeting in Abuja on February 8 to discuss the quit notice served by three of its members – Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – the situation in Senegal might well be the elephant in the room.

By Funke Egbemode

Why do men think big successful girls are single because all they want is money and independence instead of marriage and commitment? Why do they think being financially independent mean you want to live alone and die lonely? Well, the women also suspect that there is a hidden agenda somewhere. Yeah, can the men swear that they are not the ones annulling our rights and mandates while promising to ‘Insha’ Allah ‘empower’ us. You can’t win against their armoury. It is so difficult to please or understand the way their minds work. But haven’t I warned that there is no point trying to decipher a man’s mind?

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

IF Nigeria were a patient, it would be in ICU, intensive care unit, of a hospital, with deft attention being paid to its delicate aliments. Doctors will be running into each other with many medicaments to treat its various predicaments.

By Bolanle Bolawole

A new twist was introduced into the Ibadan explosion of 16 January, 2024 by the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement (YSDM) when it alleged that the explosion was not caused by any errant legal or illegal miner, be it Malian or Nigerian, but that it was a failed assassination attempt on the life of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Led by Prof. Banji Akintoye, YSDM is a pro-Yoruba or Oodua Nation nationalist group.