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  By Obi Nwakanma A few weeks ago, newspapers in Nigeria reported that the National Council of State met, and the current president, Mr. B...

  By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu These are very dangerous days in Nigeria.   “These are times that try men’s souls,” as the founding father of Ame...

  By Tonnie Iredia In 1987, the then Federal Military Government led by President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) set up an electoral bod...

  By Olu Fasan Few things confer greater honour and privilege than being a minister in the government of one’s country. From a wider popul...

  By Sunny Awhefeada   I do not know why countries or na­tions are thought of in feminine forms (she/her). Perhaps, it is a strategy to en...

  By Tonnie Iredia In the life of a nation, especially in the third world, some strange occurrences occasionally take the centre stage to ...

  By Owei Lakemfa T oday, Nigeria stands ragged and worn out on the global highway. Should it look back at the last eight years and try to...

  By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu   Poets from all over the world today do not come any loftier than Nigeria’s Niyi Osundare. In my book, he is the n...

  By Abiodun Awolaja As I begin these lines, I remember 1998 like yesterday. An old man on the street where I lived in Ondo town, exaspera...

  By Promise Adiele Nigeria’s god of literature, Wole Soyinka, needs no elaborate introduction. His evident literary flourishes underscore...

  By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The soft, gentlemanly features of Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme belie the heart of steel inside the late first eve...

By   Ejike Anyaduba Five years ago, almost to this day, the vacuum created by the death of Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme in the nation’s ...

  By  Chido Nwakanma Are the many blunders of APC vice-presidential candidate Kashim Ibrahim Shettima errors, or do they speak to a danger...

  By Olu Fasan  If Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, becomes president next year, it i...

  By Bello Maigari Senator Kashim Shettima has again amused serious-minded Nigerians, this time, opening up on how his principal in the All ...

  By Dan Amor To live on this sinful earth for 80 years (whether it is original or official age) is no mean achievement, especially in the...

  By Dan Amor It is the biggest question of the day! Does Nigeria really matter? Like an inscrutable nightmare, the ponderous mystery of t...

  By Dan Amor To live on this sinful earth for 80 years (whether it is original or official age) is no mean achievement, especially in the...

  By Dan Amor It is a sad story to tell but telling it we must. Before the advent of the present "democratic" dispensation, Nige...

  By Dan Amor Nigeria is a beautiful edifice built with bricks of contradictions. Somewhere between the idea and the reality hovers a huge g...