If any unanimity was arrived at during the just-concluded Enugu meeting of Southeast leaders, it is the suspension of the weekly sit-at-home order originally initiated by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). According to the communique released after the meeting…
Parachutes everywhere but none to stem the plunge of the naira – Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
The parachute has always featured in the Nigerian story. What with it being the magic wand that had been used to drop the first federal troops in Biafran territory. Thus, it can be argued that it was the prime saviour…
Time to rejuvenate the Nigeria church union movement – Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
As our nation stutters through political, economic and security concerns, it’s perhaps the best of times to turn attention to other matters weighing us down. And none else fits in like the spiritual and religious. This is all the more…
VAT: Cloturing the media filibustering – Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
Thanks, no thanks to Nyesom Wike, the indefatigable governor of the Rivers State Government of Nigeria. Depending on the side of the divide you belong to, he’s either a villain or a godsend. Any which way, though, it’s gladdening that…
Of Lagos gentlemen and Abuja patriots -Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
There is a sign that’ll confront an African hunter setting off for the night’s job in a distant forest and he’ll call off the hunt instanta. Like his left toe hitting an object as he saunters out, for instance; or,…
Trading mortgages in budget clothing -Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
It took just a jaded picture depicting two contrary traders to set me off on yet another odd trajectory of thought. While the one that sold on credit waxed refulgent in his well-stocked shop, the other all scraggy and ruffled…
All iffy on the economy front – Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
Like a movie, President Muhammadu Buhari is slowly approaching the end of his second and final four-year tenure. Without mince, it can be posited that what zoomed in as a box-office blockbuster is now fading out as a low-budget experiment. …
Serenading the Music and Events of Tokyo Olympics -Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
At last, the games of the XXXII Olympiad (Tokyo 2020) have come and gone. After all the COVID-19 induced delays that saw it held a year later, there is no gainsaying that it still met the razzmatazz associated with the…
Making The Most Of Our National Indebtedness -Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
Debt is one of the few English words that can be translated to any language in the world without a shed of sweat. It’s that universal. No doubt, it ranks as one of the foremost liabilities hugging man- and womankind…
Adefarasin’s Plan B: Seeketh thou an exeat or exit card? – Isidore Emeka Uzoatu
Something about Nigeria and its beleaguered economy calls forth the story of the fox and the cat to mind. The tale, a jaded one nevertheless, recounts how both friends had gone out to hunt in enemy, human territory. Like all…