Nigeria’s wasting maritime assets, by Pius Mordi
When Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Governor of Delta State, received Senator Adedayo Adeleye, chairman of the board of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) who led a delegation including the managing…
Interrogating Ogbuku’s 50th birthday celebration, by Victor Olali
On August 19, the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, turned 50. A milestone. For a man of his status, you would expect a…
Tinubunomics: Beyond politics, by Ken Ugbechie
At an exclusive dinner recently in a highbrow hotel in Lagos to mark the birthday of a successful grass to class entrepreneur, the talk drifted from the economy to sports…
Tinubu: A call to refocus the reformer, by Abraham Ogbodo
The rest of us are not doing enough to help President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reform Nigeria. Here is a man who has promised to break the frontiers and take…
Wike’s Reich and incurable power of personality, by Pius Mordi
When Chief Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun’s Supreme Court on February 28 nullified the October 5, 2024 council polls of Rivers State, not a few people drew a parallel between Justice Peter…
AKPOTI-UDUAGHAN: A memo to the Nigerian senate, judiciary and fellow citizens, by Obiageli Oby Ezekwesili
The Senate’s Constitutional Overreach in the Case of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan Democracy Dies When Laws Become Weapons and Lawmakers Become Serial Lawbreakers. Six months have passed since the unconstitutional…
This recurring FG-ASUU tango, by Monday Philips Ekpe
The government should provide credible leadership in settling these lingering university crises, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE When I watched the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, on television recently…
A tale of two Simons, by Ken Ugbechie
This is a tale of two Simons. They lived over 2,000 years apart. Separated by a distance of about 3,642 kilometres. They shared no ancestry. Neither language nor cultural…
My discourse with Solomon Arase, by Tony Iyare
Like many who received news of the sudden passing of former Inspector General of Police, Dr Solomon Ehigiator Arase, I was equally jolted when the widow of a late senior…
The recurring decimal called ASUU, by Abraham Ogbodo
Painfully, ASUU has not discovered any other way of holding conversation with the government, hence it has issued another notice of strike in 2025. In each round of strike action…