Nigeria Needs Osinbajo at Such a Time as This…
If Buhari wants to finish strong, he would need to engage Osinbajo more actively including giving him the power to institute a culture of probity in the Executive. And if…
Anyim, Nigeria and quest for national unity
BY KEN UGBECHIE He carries a certain charm. A magnet that attracts peace, unity and spell-binding amity. Anyim Pius Anyim, former President of the Senate also carries profound grace that…
Abba Kyari: Hard to keep banana away from the monkey
Ken Ugbechie; February 20, 2022 Abba Alhaji Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, is at his own Golgotha. A man designated by the Nigerian media as a Super Cop has…
Sadio Mane: An African Legend Rises Above the Whiff of Toxic Petrol
KEN UGBECHIE Away with a people’s seasonal show of shame. Away with the tacky tale of a nation unable to wean herself from getting drunk with her own urine. Let’s…
Corruption as a national staple, by Ken Ugbechie
January 30, 2022 Transparency International (IT) is a kill-joy global agency. It’s a bringer of bad news. Every year, it tells the world that Nigeria is corrupt. That public sector…
Politics of Rice Pyramids: The Goose and the Goslings
January 23, 2022 You don’t play politics with people’s stomach. Displaying bags of paddy rice when the people are hungry, cannot access and afford same rice is the most ill-advised…
The next Nigerian president and the bumpy road to 2023
January 16, 2022 Nigeria needs a manager-leader; not a pretentious moral purist. The Nigerian Presidency is not a church, a mosque or a shrine. It is a place for a…
Lagos to Delta by Road: Witness to Police Extortion
January 2, 2022 Exactly a week today, I attempted what used to be fun to me: drive from Lagos to Delta. For over two years, I had taken leave of…
5G in Nigeria: Role of the media and a revolution yet again
December 19, 2021 On Monday, December 13, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, pulled off yet another stunt; a milestone of gigantic socio-economic implications. It successfully conducted the auction for the…
We can trigger another broadband revolution powered by 5G – Ken Ugbechie
Dec. 9, 2021 Nigeria in a couple of months will be making history as it will begin the deployment of 5G technologies to facilitate broadband across the country, Though the…