Laughter As Political Medicine
Nigerians love travel and adventure. But Ukraine and its forbiddingly cold capital, Kiev, wasn’t a favourite destination for many years. That is until Pastor Sunday Adelaja of the Embassy of…
Nigerians love travel and adventure. But Ukraine and its forbiddingly cold capital, Kiev, wasn’t a favourite destination for many years. That is until Pastor Sunday Adelaja of the Embassy of…
There are some telltale signs of a perishing society, observed Alexander Solzhenitsyn. These, according to the Russian literary immortal and Nobel laureate, include acute scarcity of great statesmen and decline…
I was motivated to write this piece after going through “The Ceramic Cup“, an experience of a former United State Under Secretary of Defence, culled from “Leaders Eat Last” by…
Nigerians have an irredeemable propensity for the extra. I’m yet to see that exorcist that will help purge the spirit of overdoing and complicating even the simplest processes from most…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar made an unpopular statement during the campaign worth a second thought. He said if he was elected president, he would sell off the Nigerian National…
Things have been going well for many Nigerian Pentecostal pastors for so long. Many have become multi-billionaires as leaders of mega churches. They are far richer than their peers in…
Anambra, the mercurial pearl of Igbo nation nestling River Niger, is in the news again. We are not about to revisit the ferment of executive intemperance that led the sitting…
If you were young, courageous and had ambitions or dreams of being president in 1960s Nigeria, the place to be was in the Nigerian Army. That description could easily fit…
What would it take President Muhammadu Buhari to get the politics of the National Assembly right? Four years ago, he had a problem which, like a stubborn fly, has refused…
It is not exactly new talk; the news is that it came from the lips of Aliko Dangote, thus breaking the age-old culture of silence. Summoning a moral courage rare…