Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Anyim Pius Anyim
Wow! I can't find the words to express my joy. I turned 60 on the 19th of February last year. My family had planned to celebrate my 60th birthday in a big way but the Covid 19 pandemic got in the way.
By Mahmud Isa Yola
Attention:
I felt compelled to write to apprise you of the exponential and steady spike in the number of people arrested for drug trafficking-related offences; the rising frequency of illicit drug seizures across the country, which I am sure you are finding difficult to comprehend; and the renewed anti-drug effort in Nigeria, which has already had a bloody impact on the Nigerian illicit drug trade.
By Bola Bolawole
Celebrated English writer, William Shakespeare, said all's well that ends well; so it is with the Olubadan chieftaincy succession row now that the impasse that submerged the age-old succession process has been broken – seemingly!
Azu Ishiekwene
Abba Kyari’s response in July after the US Attorney General’s Office Central District of California issued a warrant of arrest against him following his indictment in a case of internet fraud involving Ramon Abbas, otherwise called Hushpuppi, was the earliest warning sign that the Nigerian end of this affair might descend into a farce.
By Anyim Pius Anyim
The bail granted the Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, Ebonyi State, Nwoba Chika Nwoba, calls for, not only celebration, but deep thoughts about the danger democracy is running into in Ebonyi State.
By Abia Onyike
PREAMBLE:On the 10th of February, 2022, some of my friends and political associates drew my attention to a news story that was trending in the Opera News platform. The title of the news which was presented as features was titled, “Tension in Ebonyi over Governorship zoning.”
By Celestine Okafor @CeleOkaf11
February 19, indeed, remains a special day in the life of Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, a former Senate President of Nigeria and ex-Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), and also a holder of Nigeria's second highest national honour of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON).
Azu Ishiekwene
There's a severe, earth-baking drought in the Horn of Africa. About 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti are in the grip of acute hunger. The rains have failed in three consecutive years, prompting the driest conditions experienced in the region in 41 years.
By Eze Jude
Nigerian Catholic church has seen some apostatic scandals in the past decade with Mbise Diocese' rejection of Rt. Rev. Dr. Peter Okpaleke as their bishop, on the ground that he is not being their kinsman opening the doorway.
By Godknows Igali, Ph.D
THE BACK STORY
In the course of the past one year, the Nigerian nation grieved under the burden of the oddly toll of deaths and the ensuing torrent of sorrow and heartaches. As once illustrated by William Shakespeare in his classic, Julius Caesar - “the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes”, so certain of such transitions even a year after, continue to make headlines.
By Bolanle Bolawole
On June 1, 2018, there was pandemonium (“b’oolo, yaa’mi) at the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Ado-Ekiti as a chieftain of the party, Opeyemi Bamidele, was accidentally shot by a policeman at a rally organised by the APC; the rally was to welcome Dr. Kayode Fayemi, its governorship candidate in the July 14, 2018 Ekiti State governorship election, to the state after his resignation from the Federal Executive Council where he had been the Minister of Mines and Steel Development.
By Senibo Chris Finebone
It was long expected that the very bad governance of Gov. Nyesom Wike will further slide as 2023 general elections approached. What was not envisaged was the speed and how early in 2022 things would plummet leaving hapless Rivers people and residents with the short end of the stick.
