“Look for 3 things in a person – intelligence, energy and integrity. If they don’t have the last one, don’t bother with the first two”. The above quotation comes from Warren Edward Buffet, an American business magnet, investor, speaker and philanthropist who is reputed to be the fourth richest...
OPINION
In recent weeks, President Muhammadu Buhari has been unusually busy. In addition to his normal routines in the line of duty, the president has been making the most of the last lap of his rather unflattering tenure. Through a series of farewell utterances and gestures that will last from...
Prof ABC Nwosu just resigned his membership on the PDP Board of Trustees, protesting jettisoning of the zoning principle by the main opposition PDP. The value of his resignation needs to be calculated by interrogating his role in the Ortom zoning committee. History is a bitch and the burden...
Sitting two rows away from Prof. Pat Utomi on the Air Peace flight from Lagos to Asaba, I watched in shock and disbelief as this supposed change agent and advocate for good governance, excited his small group of noisy Obidients with tales of how the Delta State Government had...
A statement by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11 declaring the lack of wisdom in the atheistic outlook has generated heated debates within the theistic and atheistic communities. Widely reported in the local media, this remark is an invitation to re-examine an allusion that Christians and...
On January 26, 1998, I authored an article, entitled ‘Lessons from the Dead’, in one of Nigeria’s foremost newspapers. In the piece, I attempted to eulogize the late Mother Theresa of Calcutta for her avowed commitment to the advancement of global development as well as her giving an everlasting...
A swan lets out one last croaky cry and wild kick before giving up the ghost. That is the bird’s one last gasp of air and futile attempt to clutch to life. Governor Nyeson Wike and his G5 Governors now cut such a tragic sight. They are either going...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has once again done what he is reputed for. He has cast a big stone into Nigeria’s brackish political pool. The splash is all over the place. Like a papal encyclical, Obasanjo’s new year day’s endorsement of Labour Party’s Mr. Peter Obi for the imminent...
Following the instability in the European gas market occasioned by Russia-Ukraine war which started in February 2022, the European Union (EU) looks up to Nigeria as an alternative to supplement its gas needs. The EU currently imports 14 per cent Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Nigeria. Reports in the...
The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) is disturbed by the banishment of a man for being responsible for mysterious deaths in his family and community in Enugu in Southern Nigeria. The man identified as Uwakwe Ugwuanyi is accused of causing the death of over five people. He has been banished for...
It is a common knowledge that while Nigerians and of course the global community were on Sunday January 1, 2023, celebrating the ‘arrival’ of a brand new year, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, released to Nigerians, his regular trademark; an open letter where he among other remarks endorsed the Labour...
Our boss, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, my family and closest friends wouldn’t like what I am about to publicly reveal. I deeply apologise. Last week, I had a surgery at Max Multi Speciality Hospital in New Delhi, India. The surgery, which doctors categorised as a ‘high risk’ was around...
I have just read the diatribe of one Daniel Bwala, who claims to be a Spokesman to a desperate-for-nothing of a candidate, and I had a good laugh; I laughed at his hollowness. I am happy that Bwala acknowledges that he, himself, is an unknown entity; the reason he...
Thanks for seeking our reaction. Former President Obasanjo is so well known to all that no one needs to describe who he is. But, four things we will like to say: One is that he will not stop attacking President Muhammadu Buhari because the former President won’t stop being...
Nigerians are a very impatient people. Our hunger for instant outcomes should have made us the nation that invented the microwave oven. But our impatience is directed at other ends. We can at least content ourselves with the many unusual things that we have reinvented and perfected our instincts...
My Fellow Countrymen and Women. I wish all of you a very happy and prosperous New Year. First, I would like to thank and honour the Almighty who saw us through the year 2022 and has given us the opportunity to see another year. Each New Year is an...
My Fellow Countrymen and Women. A very happy and prosperous New Year to you. First, I would like to thank and honour the Almighty who saw us through the year 2022 and has given us the opportunity to see another year. Each New Year is an opportunity to reflect...
The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW), notes the connection between...
For all who know the former Governor of Benue State, former Senator and incumbent Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, George Akume, it is that time of the year to roll out the drums in festivities principally to celebrate him, not necessarily because he is now a year...
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s desperation for president of Nigeria, seems to be biting hard; even if the whole country perishes, he certainly doesn’t give a damn. All he wants is to be called President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; even if it will hurt the very soul of the...