By Jude Ogechi Eze

Tuesday last week defined more concretely our previous assertion here that 2023 general election may be the most critically decisive poll in the anals of our national history. I was having a rough time, trying to tie off a tragedy that befall my family two weeks ago, which kept me away from this space for the first time in four years, when barrage of messages filtered into my WhatsApp, followed by torrential calls. It was so urgent, I had to mute notifications.

By Bola Bolawole

Audacity is a word made popular in our own time by the erstwhile United States of America president, Barack Hussein Obama. A relatively little-known Black man, in a country still seething with racial discrimination against the people of colour - as Blacks, African-Americans, Latinos, etc were called - decided to go for not just the highest office in the land but the most powerful, most respected, and most feared in the entire world.

By Godknows Igali, Ph.D

The primaries of Nigerian political parties for the selection of candidates for 2023 General Elections have come and gone, leaving a trail of national dyspepsia of sorts. At a time when the opportunity of political change was expected to elicit eruptive cheers, this situation of staggering mood deserves, as the biological sciences would do, a deeper enquiry into understanding the forms and structures which underline the electoral process. Also, for historians as empirical scientists, which many of its practitioners claim to be, the main tool for accurately recording of current events for future generations entails getting into their roots and foundations.

The theory of Praise to power 5 (p5).

Politics, particularly in the Nigeria's context, is a jogging in the jungle. If you can kick, smash or jump over the shrubs in the jungle, even if you're bitten by the snake in the process, it does not count, it's the end that justifies the means, as long as you don't offend the law, period! That's why you can hear such boasts, "lets win first, and settle later".

By C. Don Adinuba

As Bart Nnaji, globally acknowledged engineering professor and Minister of Science and Technology from August, 1993, to November, 1993, who was to become the Minister of Power from July, 2011, to August, 2012, marks 66 years on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, many Nigerians, on taking a critical look at the electric sector today, are likely to borrow an expression popularized by Nigeria’s founding president, Nnamdi Azikiwe, to pay homage to him: History vindicates the just.

By Femi Adesina

Hahahahahaaaaaaa. I burst into an uproarious laughter as I write the headline above. What a way to celebrate your boss, mentor, an icon, and your journalistic dad at 70.

By Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria is awash with arms – guns, bullets, charms, drugs and local stuff. Not just Nigeria. The entire Sahelian and sub-Saharan African region is drowning in deadly small arms and light weapons – so-called because of their portability and ease of use and adaptation.

By Micheal Owhoko, Ph.D

In the absence of 11th hour miracle, when an assessment of performance of the Executive arm of government will be carried out on May 29 next year, using the economy, security and corruption as index, President Muhammadu Buhari may likely go down as a failed President.

By Bola Bolawole

The much-anticipated realignment of political forces has begun in earnest. That which was predicted would follow the outcome of the presidential primaries of the two leading political parties – the APC and PDP – is already upon us! We have seen a gale of defections and carpet-crossing from APC to PDP and vice-versa but it would seem the PDP has the upper hand at the moment in that more big wigs have moved in its direction than away from it.

By Hassan Gimba

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future, someone once said. Even though there are enough reasons to continue with the treatise on banditry and shared sovereignty - such a depressing fact of our national life - however, today I want to look at the other side - the side of hope. Hope is to believe with an audacity that better days are afoot, the ability to see light at the end of the tunnel.

By Achike Chude

If you were old enough, you will remember where you were when thunder and lightning struck the United States of America on September 11, 2001 as three terrorists-commandeered aircrafts hurtled down from the skies unto American cities, bringing death, destruction, and fear.

By Azu Ishiekwene

Until she asked, I didn't know it was a problem. Her problem, I mean. When people say whatever gets your time and attention gets you, it’s often true.