By Godwin Nzeaka Fifteen years into the Fourth Republic, Nigeria is currently enjoying her longest period of civilian rule. Although the history of the country is replete with a number of failed attempts at civilian rule, many are now beginning to believe that democracy has at last come to stay in the most populous black…
Bye Bye Benji!!!
In 1958 when Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe (alias KO) rebelled against Nnamdi Azikwe, he founded a newspaper to give robust intellectual muscle to his revolt. The name of the paper was Daily Telegraph and the editor was maverick Smart Ebbi (alias Marshal Kebby). Marshal Kebby switched loyalty to Mbadiwe from Zik’s West African Pilot where he…
NFF, Enough Is Enough
By ADEGBENRO ADEBANJO The war in Nigerian house of football is coming at the wrong time. At a time the only thing, possibly, going for the country is football, the managers of the game have chosen to engage in an internecine war that can only put the game into disrepute, cripple its growth and invite the…
Nigeria Needs Divine Intervention
Oladipupo Funmilade-Joel – Satellite TV, Lagos Constituency. Going by the current challenges Nigeria is facing, there is every need for Nigerians especially Christians and other faithful believers to continually seek the face of God for divine intervention and divine purpose in Nigeria, so that God’s divine design would be established in the land. In family…
Is Ghaddafi Haunting Nigeria?
The pains of fallen relatives and friends never really cease however we pretend that God “giveth and taketh.” Their memories are always present in our thoughts I shall not forget Dimgba Igwe and his twin, Mike Awoyinfa, for the respect they had always given to senior colleagues. It pains that Dimgba is no more. His…
Nigeria’s Ebola Success Story
By FRED ABBA-JORI On July 20, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, became very ill while on a flight from Liberia to Nigeria. On arrival, he was immediately rushed to a private hospital in Lagos where he was initially suspected to have malaria. On further interview however, it was discovered that he had recently been in close contact…
Blame Bush, Not Putin, For Instability
The world is on edge and the only saving grace is the presence of two thinking leaders at both ends of the opposite poles. If one goes by what is churned out by the West, the tendency is to blame Russia currently for threatening world peace. Africans are very gullible, always chewing stuff released per…
Ensuring the Future of Nigerian Youths
By KAYODE SOTE Education is the means by which people develop their mental knowledge to think rationally and systematically so as to respond effectively and creatively to their world of existence and thus satisfy the curiosity and aesthetic impulse of human beings. Over the course of history, education has developed progressively to recognise the value…
Ebola and the Quarantining of West Africa’s Economies
By Akpan H. Ekpo The West African sub-region is experiencing the Ebola scourge. The Ebola virus disease, EVD, whose outbreak in Guinea occurred in May this year, has spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal. The Nigerian case was due to an American-Liberian who travelled to Nigeria on his way to a conference in…
Nigerian Football: Throwing Stones From The Glass House
NIGERIAN FOOTBALL: THROWING STONES FROM THE GLASS HOUSE By Adegbenro Adebanjo The war in Nigerian House of Football is coming at the wrong time. At a time the only thing, possibly, going for the country is football, the managers of the game have chosen to engage in an internecine war that can only put the…