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If you must buy a baboon don’t buy the one with a 10% discount. PCD You call them Ibo, but are they really Ibo? They are strangely and strongly dichotomised by church denominations and sects, […]

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 emerged like any other day. And I was pre-occupied with the hectic schedule ahead of me in the office. But just as I was set to have my bath, two men […]

Towards his second and final four-year term in office, Maureen Chigbo and I interviewed Dr Chimaroke Nnamani, governor of Enugu state, for Newswatch magazine in 2007. As we were about to round off the very […]

Rerun elections will hold tomorrow in some states and, like in the past, Buhari will not intervene in the process to give his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), any advantage. In fact, the president […]

To say that Nigerians can be found in virtually every corner of the planet is no exaggeration for it is not for nothing that Nigeria ranks as the most populous black nation on earth. With […]

Boeing Commercial Airplanes Corporation of America is the unrivalled leader in the world civil aviation industry. Boeing remains the world’s largest builder of jumbo jets (wide-body aircraft). Since the Boeing 747 entered service in 1968, […]

Very quickly these are not the best of times for my friend and brother, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, the outgoing Imo state governor and copyright owner of the word “Iberiberism”. I humbly seek permission to use […]

The battle is over. It’s been won and lost. The warriors are home, relishing mutual congratulations – the deafening sound of back slapping and all that. I can see that newspaper proprietors are doing much […]

Of all the arms government in presidential democracy, the legislature is considered the most germane. The legislature is so highly rated in presidentialism for a number of reasons. The first is the fact that of […]

For all practical purposes the 2019 general elections are over, save for a few places where elections are declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). These include Sokoto, Bauchi, Adamawa, Kano, Plateau, Benue […]

Nigerian voters were compelled to choose between clueless leadership and a return to unbridled looting.  They opted for the lesser evil of cluelessness. The next four years would determine the viability of that option. Nigeria’s […]

As oyinbo (whiteman) take like Black Maria, blackmail, black angels, black coffee, the black man still proudly uses the white tissue roll for black shit…  There is this book called disappearance it was divided into […]

Here is what is currently trending. The acting inspector-general of police, Mohammed Adamu, has deployed seven DIGs, 10 AIGs and 277 commissioners of police for poll duty tomorrow. The Nigeria Air Force has deployed aircraft […]

By February 23 when the first set of presidential and national assembly polls took place in Nigeria’s quadrennial election cycle, President Muhammadu Buhari and his APC ruling ‘’politburo’’ had not only met but has broken […]

The telecommunications industry is the best thing to happen to Nigeria’s privatization programme. Since the federal government opened the industry to competition in 2001, it has recorded phenomenal growth that no one ever imagined. The […]

Wislawa Szymborska’s poem, The End and the Beginning (translated by Johanna Trzeciak):                         After every war                         someone has to clean up.                         Things won’t                         straighten themselves up, after all.                         Someone has to […]

The Egyptians have not failed to fascinate me. Since the days of Joseph the dreamer who was sold into slavery by his envious brothers up to October, 1977 when I visited the land of Pharaoh […]

After it was postponed by a week because of some logistical challenges, the 2019 presidential election has come and gone. President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) got reelected and promised to […]

The results are in. The people have spoken. But a post mortem on the 2019 general elections, as in what went right, what went wrong and why, has to await the second and final tranche […]

“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the […]

The president’s men have been at pains, first, to deny that President Buhari ordered the security services to shoot dead ballot box snatchers during the presidential and national assembly elections tomorrow; and two, when that […]