Lagos to Delta by Road: Witness to Police Extortion
January 2, 2022 Exactly a week today, I attempted what used to be fun to me: drive from Lagos to Delta. For over two years, I had taken leave of…
Nigerian Army, General Buratai and EndSARS Protests
By Yushau A. Shuaib You have started again! You should know that PR is not a licence to support atrocities. Innocent persons (at Lekki) were deliberately murdered by your clients…
Kidnapping: A greater than bank robbery is here
November 9, 2021 There is a lucrative business in Nigeria. Currently, it might just be the highest paying, after politics. It’s called kidnapping, abduction or whatever nomenclatural designation you may…
Military Pensions and Commodore Lawal: One Year of Sterling Transformation
It’s been one full year since Commodore Sabiru Abayomi Lawal assumed duty as the 28th Chairman of the Military Pension Board, MPB. His tenure officially took off on September 18th,…
Peter Obi and the Arrows of 2023, By Justus Nwakanma
There is a salient rule in archery, in warfare or combat: Always choose the right arrows when shooting at your target, or he would walk away in swaggering triumphalism. Sadly,…
Population immunity behind Nigerian vaccine mandate for civil servants
The quest for population immunity is the underlying reason for the vaccine mandate Nigeria rolled out on 13 October for federal civil servants to increase the number of persons immunised…
SETTING THE RCORDS STRAIGHT ON UYO-IKOT EKPENE ROAD
October 12, 2021 By Iniubong Ubeng The commissioning of the completed Uyo – Ikot Ekpene road has come and gone but the unnecessary controversy generated by the false assertion that…
BBNaija: Like Whitemoney, Like Pretty Cherise of Zambia
October 10, 2021 And it came to pass that after 72 days in a palatial house called the Big Brother House, a certain Hazel Oyeze Onou, popularly called Whitemoney, out…
Tribute: Mama Julianah Ademolahan Adeleye; bridge builder, peace maker
October 2, 2021 I had to do some fresh searching for the meaning of April Fools Day before writing this. Something to do with an annual custom on 1 April…
Aiteo and global media blackmail, by Jackson Afagha
September 26, 2021 There seems a scurrilous pattern among Western media to willy-nilly tar home-grown African entrepreneurs who dare to swim above the waters with their foreign counterparts in ugly…