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Posturing by the Action Progressives Congress, APC that they will field a Northern candidate for the Presidency in 2015 should...

The cry of a colossal central government that has arrogated unto itself every important executive and legislative power and reduced...

Once again, the Muslim feast of Eid-el-Fitr has come and gone and Nigerian leaders, as usual, used the opportunity to preach...

Those that call me a tribalist are simply misguided. Perhaps they do not know the meaning of the word or...

Our supreme civic obligation is to visualize and understand the concept of virtue well enough as to be able to...

I heard the news of the demise of Shaikh Isa Waziri in the Haram of Makkah few days after he...

“Let’s put our minds into any gad***n church, any gad***n mosque, any gad***n Celestical (Celestial), including Sera-FUM (Seraphim) and Cheru-BUM...

President Goodluck Jonathan last Thursday announced to the world that Nigeria will not break up in 2015. He promised that...

A few years ago, there was this cool Gatorade commercial about basketball legend Michael Jordan. It was a sing and...

I spent the last couple of days mulling over the relationship between domestic savings and investment on one hand, and...

In Igbo land, there are people referred to as “ori n’ crisis” (someone who makes a fortune during crisis). Former...

Let me start by commending men and women, old and young, able-bodied and physically challenged, Christians and Muslims who stood...

Are you disappointed by the posts and comments you read on the Internet and social media? Do you think that...

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no...

Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the...

A while ago, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo’s visceral defence of the Jonathan regime against all real and perceived enemies left many observers...

The local government system is a problematic concept to situate. For this reason, there is no institution of government that...

Last week, two things happened that have the potential to significantly remould our party system for the better. The first...

Key Northern States like Kano and Borno have continued to perpetuate rolling poverty and educational disadvantage by sustained birth rates...

If you live in cities like Kano or Zaria, you must be familiar with the shuttle bus known as Kiyakiya....

The debate over Lagos State’s deportation of some Igbo elements to Anambra State has done two things at once. One,...

''The claim that the Igbo helped to develop Lagos is hogwash. The major institutions of the south-west were developed by...

Since we are sick, confessing that we are healed is not going to heal us. I was invited to conduct...

Dear Honourable Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, When leaders become rulers, they look our laws in the face and manipulate them. ...

A prophet is without honour except in his own house In the dark old days when the military dominated Nigeria’s...