By Azu Ishiekwene

If there was a prize for Nigeria’s number one letter writer, journalist-turned-lawyer and one-time minister, Tony Momoh, would appear to be the undisputed champion.

By James Okoroma

The young man, caught with a dagger at the recent rally of Mr. Peter Obi in Ibadan, Oyo State reminds one of how the first and only Igbo Military Head of State, Major-Gen. Johnson Thomas Umunakwe Aguiyi Ironsi was murdered in Ibadan by some Military officers on 29th July, 1966.

By Jude Ogechi Eze

This is actually a wrong time to author any write-up on executive Governor of Anambra state — His Excellency, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, since he's already enmeshed in a tussle, analogous to the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war, with the "Obidients." And so, it is necessary to raise a caveat, that this piece was formerly sketched to appraise Soludo's six months in office, before his needless assault on Peter Obi's probity and daylight disavowal of his presidential ambition.

By Bola Bolawole

When the stormy petrel governor of Rivers state, Barrister Nyesom Wike, threw his 13 percent derivation windfall bombshell last week, his fellow Niger Delta governors must have been gutted even as ordinary Nigerians within and beyond the oil-producing areas were alarmed.

By Sotonye Ijuye-Dagogo

This situation is shameful, disgraceful and annoying. It is brought upon us by a jester who dances naked all over the country, fighting injustice that exists only in his own imaginations.

By Barr. Ezugwu Okike

The late story teller, Chinua Achebe, was very consistent in calling himself and contemporaries, the members of a lucky generation. As he travelled the world and lectured, he kept saying it. That was consistent with the Achebe character. He was a very modest and honest man. The more general attitude of mankind is to shake things out of the ordinary. The first man who travelled to Onisha from Nsukka returned and told his kinsmen that every route to Onitsha was tortuous and long. They gathered and admiringly looked upon him as a fabulous adventurer. He did not want another person to undertake the journey and return to render his accomplishment commonplace. Achebe would not do that. He would have told his kinsmen that Onitsha was not that far and that the journey was easy.

By Hassan Gimba

Among the reasons given by the Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for the redesigning of the ₦200, ₦500 and ₦1000 notes is that there is some ₦3.2 trillion in circulation out of which 2.7 trillion is outside the banking system. The assumption is that those stupendous amounts outside could be proceeds of crime - corruption, kidnappings, robbery, etc., and so they would cease to be legal tender since the owners would not take them to the banks for fear of being found out.

By Mamman Mohammed

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them” -William Shakespeare.

For those who have been close to, or have interacted closely with, Yobe State Governor, Honourable Mai Mala Buni, CON, it is very convincing to assume that the famous 17th century English playwright, William Shakespeare, had Buni in mind while writing the play “Twelfth Night”.

• * Says Rivers Electorates Will Uproot PDP's Impunity In 2023

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By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Foremost Niger Delta activist and top-rate organic intellectual, Alatubo Charles Piriye Harry, has appraised the political developments in his State, Rivers, in the past 23 years, and projects that the people's power at the polling booths, will overthrow the impunity culture and sub-standard governance which has allegedly characterized the oil-rich state since the dawn of democracy in 1999.

By Azu Ishiekwene

It’s a great time to be a football lover. It might not feel exactly so if your country is not one of the 32 taking part in the 22nd edition of the World Cup in Doha, Qatar. But being a fan means managing to love the game without having your dog in the fight.

By Bolanle Bolawole

When we thought the dust had settled on the eight-month-long strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), President Muhammadu Buhari’s fumbling and wobbling administration came up with its pro-rata as opposed to half-pay nonsensical dichotomy. In this instance, what is the difference between half-salary and the pro-rata payment the ASUU members received last October? For lecturers who had gone without pay for eight months, especially those of them with no other visible or viable means of livelihood other than their monthly salary, the semantics of half-pay and pro-rata is not only frustrating, it is also the last thing they had expected from a government alive to its responsibilities, especially to our youth who have wasted, in one stretch, close to two academic sessions that cannot be totally regained, no matter what the lecturers do to try to cover lost ground.