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The past half a decade has been perhaps the most challenging years since Nigeria’s return to civil rule in 1999....

“Truth is we need a change; the political solution is a political change from the old order”. Only a prey...

 “…almost 90 per cent of Nigerians have been brought up to believe that the motion for Nigeria's independence was successfully...

The lesson Bamigbetan's kidnap is that Nigeria is sitting on a boiling cauldron which might turn over at anytime. And...

The speech last week in Washington, D.C. delivered by the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Kingsley Kuku,...

Last week’s article on the above subject attracted a lot of reaction, and I truly appreciate the diversity of opinions...

Few hours back, I stumbled on a publication by a very respected online medium containing excerpts of what is said...

Just as the guns and bombs of Boko Haram, the main northern wing of our ethnic militia, continue to boom,...

The name “Jesus” was never heard of until 1,500 years after Jesus walked the earth. Several years ago, I was...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO), marks today, April 28, as the World Day for Safety and Health at Work with...

Nigerian sauntered into big resource wealth in the 1960s when oil was discovered in exploitable quantity. With huge revenues pouring...

Education is widely believed to be the key to success in the contemporary world. No wonder why many people that...

And it came to pass that on the fiftieth year of the slavery of the tribe of the owners-of-black-gold-but-hewers-of-stone in...

In December last year, the National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) asked the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency...

Last July, shortly after the horrific Dana Air crash that killed over a hundred Nigerians, I did a piece titled...

“There must be a better option than killing to die… or dying to kill!” I've often wondered what motivates one...

Each time I receive my pay advice and go through the mathematical details that define the deep crevice between my...

In its relentless efforts to end the Boko Haram insurgency, the Presidency has constituted a body, the Presidential Committee on Dialogue...

Two movie-like incidents occurred in two cities – Kano in Northern Nigeria and Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. The two incidents marked...

On Wednesday, the 17th of April 2013, the presidency announced the setting up of two presidential committees to engage members...

Permanent secretaries, directors of civil service, military generals, judges, school teachers, professors, journalists and many more are among the endless...

Nigeria, an amalgam of several hundreds ethnic nationalities with diverse cultural, religious and cultural affinities is indeed an interesting irony....

My mother, Elizabeth Ofuchinyelu Ndibe (nee Odikpo), turned 88 years old last Thursday, April 18. The way she chose to...

Proliferation of small arms and light weapons is increasingly and dangerously becoming a transnational organized crime in Nigeria with Boko...

The rich inherit this life but fail to inherit the life to come.  A while ago, my wife and I...