The miracle of Maina
KEN UGBECHIE Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, a former unknown civil servant, is currently writing the story of Nigeria. At a point in time, every nation must have her story written. The…
Lotus for Aisha Buhari
KEN UGBECHIE Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, seems to have defied every odd. When her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, told Nigerians that he would not create and recognise the Office…
Uyo as Super Eagles’ talisman
BY KEN UGBECHIE Nigerians just love football. The old, the young and even the not-so-healthy. They all have a special place for soccer in their hearts. Imagine how much they…
Africans rage at Dove over racist advert
Personal care and beauty brand Dove found itself in the midst of a social media storm on Sunday after it released a series of images that showed a black woman…
Commentary: How hate speech can harm your brain
In a flurry of confident pronouncements within an hour of the massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival, conservative commentators and activists linked the perpetrator, Stephen Paddock, to liberal…
ICT University? Not Again!
KEN UGBECHIE The problem with Nigeria is much more a leadership deficit than it is a followership disorder. It’s only in Nigeria that you see an engineer assigned to teach…
Kachikwu: Lest Buhari Forgets
Emma Agu What those who denied the minister of petroleum, state, Ibe kachikwu access to President Muhammadu Buhari have succeeded in doing is to force the man out of the…
POLITICAL COUP AGAINST PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI BY AMINU MASARI AND DAHIRU MANGAL
By Muhammad Galadanchi, The very fragile relationship between President Muhammadu Buhari and Aminu Masari,the Governor of his home state, Katsina is about to be further fractured. The relationship between both…
IPOB: A needless Army arrangement
KEN UGBECHIE The South East is under military siege. It is a needless siege to unarmed civilians in a part of the country famed for hard work, peace, order and…
To lie to a nation…
KEN UGBECHIE Some things confound and confuse. Some things are hard to believe, difficult to understand yet happen every so often as part of a people’s ethos. Some things simply…