We set forth at dawn, because ahead lay a long haul journey. Fifteen hours of flying, as we headed to Seoul, South Korea, to attend the first World Bio Summit. It was not the longest journey one had taken. We had been to Japan, which was 16 hours. As much as I don’t dread flying, nothing beats having your feet …

The Nigerian telecommunications sector has remained, perhaps, the most dynamic section of the economy for over two decades. It is a major newsmaker. One day it is news for new milestones, new technologies and new vistas and the next day regulatory restrictions, multiple taxations by the government and its agents or else disruption of service by the same. It is …

In a widely shared story last week, The Economist likened the political carnage in Britain to the situation in Italy in the 1940s. Italy was a major theatre of the First World War at the end of which the country was in ruins. It is so unstable that in spite of the tenuous hold of the Christian Democrats on power for much …

The sore – and sour – point in relations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the government of Nigeria is the funding of the public university system. ASUU considers the funding made available by the government as paltry and inadequate – and this has been so over the years; indeed, for decades and for time immemorial. Not …

“Indeed, Mr. Speaker has brought to bear the attributes of humility, diligence and experience and, above all, the concern of the people in his administration”. The above was part of a Motion for a Vote of Confidence on the leadership style of Rt Hon. Joseph Albasu Kunini in December 2020, following a plot by a group of members of the …

Just when a number of patriotic Nigerians were begining to express concerns about the ethno-religious nuances of the messaging in the 2023 campaigns, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu launched the 85-page document envisioning the road map for governance, if he and his running mate Kashim Shettima are elected. The document should help …

You just knew Apostle Johnson Suleman was going to come bigging up his God credentials once assassins’ bullets, mercifully, did not find accommodation in his prominent bald pate or eye socket. He would not be Suleman if he did not. His escape had nothing to do with the bullet-proof vehicle he and his family were travelling in. It had all …

Mrs Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been quoted as saying she did not know whether or not her husband met the expectations of Nigerians. The Aisha statement is capable of many interpretations. One is that she knew he did not but is only trying to find a decent, palatable or less offensive way of saying what she …

We are now in the home run, or shall we use the more familiar “last leg” of the race to Aso Villa, specifically for the front runners – Atiku Abubakar, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Peter Obi (in order of their declared ages). If we are not paying the cliched lip service to conducting the ideological and intellectual inspections of the …

Across every corner and crevice of Enugu State WhatsAppsphere, the despicable name of Reuben Onyishi has been resoundingly omnipresent over the past few weeks and for all the wrong reasons. From my not-too-inattentive corner, I have watched the jaunty swag of this despicable desperado with studied silence, largely because I never wanted to give him the attention that he so …