ECOWAS leaders are currently meeting in Abuja to discuss political and economic issues concerning the sub-region. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the leaders would examine ways to address the pulling out of the bloc by Mali, Burkina…
Rangers International @ 54 — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
When the Nigeria-Biafra war ended in January 1970, there was gloom in Igboland. Even as the then Head of State General Yakubu Gowon made the famous announcement of “No Victor, No Vanquished”, the vanquished ones knew themselves as they sauntered…
Why aren’t we telling the civil war story? — Gbubemi Atimomo
Reflecting on the absence of a unified perspective on the Nigerian Civil War I must have been in either Primary 4 or 5 when I first heard about the Nigerian Civil War. I’m not exactly sure how I found out,…
Agenda for the next president — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
This is the season of high-wire politicking, and some contenders and wannabes are talking tough on rescuing Nigeria from ruin once they are elected as the country’s president. Anybody elected as the president of Nigeria in this woebegone time must…
Tinubu is like Sani Abacha — Shettima
Kashim Shettima, All Progressives Congress (APC), vice presidential candidate, has said that Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate, has a dose of hospitality that the late Sani Abacha, a former military ruler, had, and the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari…
A tropical scam made by Britain –Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
A scam that lasts for all of 61 years is no ordinary scam. Call it a mega scam, and Nigeria will take a tropical bow. Everything about Naija, to use the hip and contemporary sobriquet, is shrouded in the kind…
Fire and fury as FFK and Daily Trust face-off degenerates – Magnus Onyibe
Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), former aviation minister and son of one-time Deputy Premier of Western Region, Remilekun Fani-Kayode (a.k.a. Fani-Power) has punched back at Daily Trust newspaper, whose reporter was tongue lashed after he asked a question that Fani-Kayode considered to…
I am fit, I didn’t slump in Delta, says Gowon (Punch)
A former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, on Sunday described a media report that he slumped recently in Delta State as untrue. Gowon said this during a thanksgiving service for the 32nd annual Fresh Fire Convention of Gethsemane…
*Tradermoni, good gesture, bad execution — Onitiri, Lagos PDP senatorial candidate (Vanguard) * Gowon’s prayer group holds special service in Lagos (Nation)
Tradermoni, good gesture, bad execution — Onitiri, Lagos PDP senatorial candidate (Vanguard) The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Lagos Central Senatorial District, Chief Adesunbo Onitiri, has criticised the on-going distribution of Tradermoni by the Federal Government to traders in…
Nigerian development tragedy: the affliction of image deficit and the way out -Magnus Onyibe
Our dear country seems doomed to remain mired in negative publicity. That is even as headlines heralding horrific events like gruesome murders of civilians by herdsmen , suicide bombings by religious insurgents like Boko Haram and mind-boggling sums of public…
