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What do Obadiah Mailafia and T Y Danjuma have in common? They are both northern Christians who in recent times have had to cry out against injustice. Both of them are well within their Obadiah Mailafia

Nyesom Wike, Governor, Rivers State Any time I hear of a Governor making a donation, I ask myself how deep their pockets are. I recall a story told by Victor Umeh. Talking about how Peter Obi became a Governor he recalled that as APGA

 President Muhammad Buhari Wonders they say shall never end. The Federal Government has decided to reward the Borno State Government, for their relentless struggle against Book Haram. The literal meaning of Boko Haram is Western Education is evil. To rub it on Boko Haram, the egg heads in the

                                 Akinwunmi Adeshina Akinwunmi Adeshina has been reelected President of the AFDB. This is quite auspicious. The Emelifonwu Pius Blog has nothing but good wishes for the Nigerian. The one thing Adeshina should not lose

 Tukur Buratai: Nigerian Army Chief The Nigerian Military authorities who are daily being worsted by insurgents, bandits and terrorists have made an important discovery. If you ask me, the discovery is worthy of a Nobel Prize though not for peace. To wit, after a careful study begun after the 2015 Elections, they are happy to announce that they have found the source of the funding of the insurgents who are making our military a

  Femi Fani - Kayode Femi Fani Kayode needs no introduction. He is clean and comes across as a hard puncher. He recently met his match in Cross River State. He was supposedly doing a hatchet job for his Political Party the

Paper Aku: Governor Benue State 1979 - 1983 Ultimately, man is innately selfish. In Benue State, in 1979 in the Benue State House of Assembly emerged a young man from Oturkpo. His name was Audu Innocent Ogbeh. The man to the Governor, Aper Aku was anything but innocent. He was

Spirits are invisible and powerful and so is the current Nigerian President. Is it not surprising that some masquerades are ageless in a society where people do not live long? This proves that since human beings change into the spirits and the name of the Masquerade

  Registrar General CAC: Bello Mahmud Nigeria is a multi religious country. The problems of Nigeria have no religion. Nigeria is rich both in resources and poor people. This aberration is due to the collaboration of Nigerians and foreigners of different religious representations in Nigeria. With respect to the amendments in Companies a d Allied Matters Act 2020, I

                  NBA President; Olumide Apata Truth be told Lawyers though powerful have managed to give their image a poor lustre. Society is best governed by laws  hence lawyers hate military rule with passion. Lawyers in a Democracy is a different ball game. I doubt if there is any

                                Chris Ngige While it is unsafe to say that we are entering a post Covid - 19 era, it will be correct to say that some fundamental changes have come to stay. It was Peter Obi , a forner Governor of Anambra State, who stated that he was approached to invest in Zoom before Covid - 19 but he refused. Today

Someone once described Higher Education as learning more and more of less and less. It is worrisome that the more people want to move away from Ironsi"s Union Decree, the more thoughtless people want to move Nigeria back to the past. The Civil war of 1967 to 1970 was fought by giving autonomy to

It has been suggested that the Covid -19 pandemic be used in dating events. A milestone in the lives of our children is the 2020 West African School Certificate Examinations. I recall that when I did my West African School Certificate Examination, there was mass leakage and I thought

  The above statement was made by a gentleman trying to prevent a road he built from being washed away by another man directing water unto the road in a menacing way. Indeed the road was built by the young man for the comfort of his tenants. From the statement of the landlord, if the road were to be built by the government, he in all probability

                    Innocent Chukwuma  Nigeria has the largest economy in Africa. Time there was when Nigeria's foreign policy was Afrocentric. An adage says that a man's neighbour is his brother. The rest of Africa looks up to Nigeria and it will do us a lot of good when we are taking domestic decisions to be mindful of this fact. Innoson Vehicle Manufacturers is a

Rotimi Akeredolu Governor Ondo State  I was privileged to watch a documentary yesterday on Ondo State and their Industrial strides. I was impressed. The question is whose duty is it to Industrialize Nigeria? Late Sam Mbakwe, the weeping Governor once called Britain to come and recolonize us. Many will find this difficult to believe but believe you me, Sam Mbakwe still ranks high if not highest among the past governors of IMO State. Personally, I do not share that sentiment.

                                         Obj and PMB Obj takes no prisoners. Among Nigerian leaders he stands out not for leadership but for self-righteousness. Baba has a large ego and has no qualms in making rules applicable to all but those he so chooses. Like Obj like PMB, both retired army Generals. I do not know if it is a

            President Muhammad Buhari I recall an incident at Idumota, Lagos, South West Nigeria, several years ago, where the wife of a top official of Lagos State government was harassed. Then and only then did the Lagos State government deem it fit to take action against street urchins called area boys. The harassment went on and on unaddressed, until it touched home. A similar thing is playing out with regard to insecurity in Nigeria. So far, the

 INEC Chairman: Mahmood Yakubu Until the Governorship Elections in IMO State, where the number of votes was more than the number of accredited voters, registration was a major focus for politicians in Nigeria. The reason is simple. Nigeria's electoral process is strong on brute force and weak in process

                               Andre Onana For a long time I have watched sportsmen from other African countries do things for their country and somehow, I manage to make up excuses for my dear country men who manage to be different. However, I honestly feel something is not right. Samuel Eto'o Fils has

                Orji Uzor Kalu It is believed that in Politics there are no permanent friends but permanent interests. The way things quickly turn around in Politics is like shifting sands. In 1993 one of the things that worked against The June 12 1993 

                      The Alaafin of Oyo Nigeria became a Republic in 1963. The constitution does not have a role for traditional rulers. In fact the traditional rulers are subject to their local government chairmen. In practice politicians try to court traditional rulers during elections for

 Nasir Ahmad El - Rufai Kaduna State Governor One of my happiest days in the University was the day Chinua  Achebe lmalicious.y General Studies class. Typical Achebe, he told the class two stories. One was about Northern Nigeria and the other was about Southern Nigeria.

 President Muhammad Buhari It is indeed sad that in doing things our thinking as Nigerians is less than strategic. In picking Jonathan as Vice President even with limited experience as Governor we were less than strategic. In picking Osinbajo as Vice President without a political clout of note we

Pateh Bah WAEC Registrar West African Examinations Council have announced the release of the time table for senior secondary schools examination. This is a welcome development. For the students it has been a

It is foolhardy to think Nigerians are incapable of protesting. Like the Holy book says, we should pray that when the wave of protests come, we are not caught unawares. The mantra should be 'be prepared' for indeed nobody knows the hour but Omoyele Sowore

                        Femi Falana There are by some reckoning three  categories of people in the world viz those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who do not know what is happening. All the categories have their high and

Our Nigerian leaders are hostages of colonial mentality. In the days of colonialism expecting the colonial officers to love the natives is to miss the point of colonialism which is mercantilism. About sixty years after Independence,

The story of how the Ladoke Akintola University of Science and technology got sited at Ogbomoso is quite revealing. It smacks of vendetta and shortsightedness. Just like in the location of industry, the sighting of a school has to have a lot of considerations. In the case of the University jointly owned by Oyo and Osun states, finding a sight for it was a no brainer  but several forces came to play with reasons why it should be in a place of their choice. Abuja as the Capital of Nigeria came to be because of the desire to have a capital in a central part of Nigeria. Resolving a location for Ladoke Akintola University came as a result of the fact that the Military were involved. Left to civilians it would have been challenging. Ogbomoso got chosen because it was the home town of Samuel Ladoke Akintola. You may want to know why? Ogbomoso being the home town of Samuel Ladoke Akintola had no University and no Polytechnic. Ife  had a University and Ibadan had a University and a Polytechnic

Rotimi Amaechi  Nigerian Minister of Transportation was a student Unionist and a former acolyte of Peter Odili. Amaechi read English and Literature at the University of Port Harcourt. He worked under Peter Odili as an