Wike, SARS and Citizen Revolt
BY KEN UGBECHIE Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is made of the bold stuff. He says it as he sees it. He is one of Nigeria’s most outspoken politicians….
2019: Atiku on the march again
BY KEN UGBECHIE Predictably, Atiku Abubakar, the man from Jada, a rustic community in Adamawa State, has jumped off the All Progressives Congress (APC) boat. He was always going to…
Nigeria Telecom Glory in South Korea: The full story
If there was ever a frost of doubt about the growing stature of Nigeria in the global Information Communication Technology (ICT) marketplace, such doubt was thawed at the 2017 World…
NNPC: Separating Policy from Politics
By Williams Ekanem For Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), is a cash cow. It attracts the highest earnings for the country, at least for now, until the Zero…
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…