Hearing some Nigerians speak (whether based at home or in the Diaspora), you discern that they are “in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity”. They spew…

KEN UGBECHIE This month makes it precisely 16 years since the Global System for Mobile, GSM, genre of communication was introduced into the Nigerian market.  GSM in itself is not…

KEN UGBECHIE The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has told us what we already knew. It says Nigerian public sector thrives on a culture of bribe me, I bribe you….

By KEN UGBECHIE Post-Independence Nigeria has struggled with the issue of identity and accurate census. Since the rebirth of democracy in 1999, the nation has gone through several identity motions,…

By Uche Ugboajah One of the constitutional amendments that Nigerians have been clamoring for is the separation of the office of attorney-general from the position of minister of justice. For…

KEN UGBECHIE Do you believe in miracles? And do you even believe that miracles still happen? Well, if you don’t, ask the elements loyal to the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker…

By Ken Ugbechie Until recently, the name Badoo was not all that bad. Russian entrepreneur, Andrey Andreev,  launched  a dating cum social networking site in London in November 2006 and…

By Emmanuel Ado On June 30, 1934, the historic day of the  Night of Long Knives, Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer or Chancellor of Germany, was scared stiff that the  notorious…

BY KEN UGBECHIE The announcement that Nigeria’s Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina has won the 2017 World Food Prize did not come to me as a surprise. Since its establishment in 1986,…

Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has signed the 2017 budget into law. A national budget is a country’s projected income and expenditure profile for a particular period. In the case of…