By Bolanle Bolawole

I am from Owo. I was born and bred there. Readers of my columns must have known that by now. My primary school, modern school and secondary school were all at Owo.

By Godknows Igali

On Friday 27th May, 2022 the Nigerian state laid to rest one of its veteran social activists, patriots and inveterate nationalists, Comrade Anthony Ipriye Uranta in his hometown, Queenstown, Opobo in Rivers State. The funeral obsequies spread between Lagos and Rivers States lasted a week, during which the most celebrated Nigerian civil society activists trooped out from around the country to salute one of their best. With heroic applause, they ushered his remains into his final resting place in the Uranta family vault in his hometown.

By Azu Ishiekwene

That the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is exactly where the party’s last presidential candidate President Muhammadu Buhari was when he got the ticket eight years ago, shows just how our politics has stagnated, if not regressed.

By Jude Eze

"In the Bible story where Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego said they'll not bow to the Babylonian god, even if God fails to deliver them. Nebuchadnezzar was more worried, why? Intransigent minority." - Kelechi Deca.

By Bola Bolawole

The 2022 Ekiti governorship election is around the corner! Saturday, 18th June is the D-Day. The incumbent, Gov. John Kayode Fayemi, is statute-barred and, therefore, not eligible to contest, having served one term as governor between October 15, 2010 and October 16, 2014 before he was walloped out of office by the enfant terrible, Ayodele Fayose.

By Azu Ishiekwene

After the feisty, if not bitter, presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ended on Wednesday with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerging the party’s candidate for the next election, the overriding instinct is to throw the losers under the bus. You can hardly blame Tinubu’s camp.

By Paul Mumeh

Senator Chimaroke Ogbonnaya Nnamani was governor of Enugu state between 1999 and 2007. He is a medical doctor; a feotal surgeon with a sub-specialty in maternal and infant health.

By Gbemiga Ogunleye

A couple of weeks ago, on April 29th to be precise, I sent a message to my friend of over two decades, Richard Akinnola, complaining about a news report credited to the Vice- President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to the effect that Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, nominated Osinbajo as the Vice-president.

By Azu Ishiekwene

After last weekend's primary by the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s candidate for next year’s presidential election, political leaders in the South have been hurling abuses at the North for betrayal.

By Ismail Idris

I love the philosophies and ideologies of Frantz Fanon. And his books too. "The Wretched of the Earth and Alienation and Freedom," would forever speak to our consciences on equity and justice. He understood the physics of human nature and established a nexus between rebellion and existential threats.

By Ismail Idris

There many be a large army of aspirants angling for the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), but that hardly makes the task of choosing the man or woman best-suited for the ticket any more onerous for any party that is driven by a time-honoured principle of going for someone of impeccable character.

By Paul Mumeh

Barring any unforeseen circumstances or a likely twist of events on account of the uncertainties that characterizes our polity, former Governor of Enugu State and current Senator representing Enugu East, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani will return to the Senate for a third term in 2023. He got all the votes cast to secure a ticket to contest for the Senatorial seat under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded primaries.