The last elections have demonstrated a new destructive loser’s variant in the Nigerian isle. It is a stubborn unwillingness to accept defeat, to twist an obvious failed candidacy into an ethnic circus by an extremist rump , unfortunately now widening their sphere by coupling into their midst an otherwise civil, enlightened camp. The thronging of a particular section of the …

The world is in a struggle with plastic. It can’t seem to do without it and definitely can’t live with it. It litters the landscape, cloaks the drains and gutters and fills the canals, rivers and oceans. The United Nations says ‘the world is choking on plastic’ and National Geographic says ‘the world is drowning in plastic’. Plastic is in …

When King Charles, the head of the Church of England, is crowned on 6th May, there would be two very unusual non-Protestant special guests at the ceremony, among others: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who is Hindu; and the Leader of the Scottish National Party and next First Minister of Scotland, Humza Haroon Yousaf, a Muslim. Not two unusual guests. …

A few days ago, the Enugu State House of Assembly was in the news, after years of unflatteringly idle and comatose legislative existence for all the wrong reasons. One of its principal officers, Chinedu Nwamba, who chairs the House Committee on, wait for it, “Public Accounts and Anti-corruption”, rose on the floor of the Assembly with a motion that was …

Ever since I trained my mind to follow the unravelling of Nigeria’s sociopolitics through martial and civilian governance, I’ve found no deputy who has been as harried and harangued as Atiku Abubakar. I have highlighted the word civilian in the preceding sentence because much of what we have witnessed particularly in Nigeria’s last two general elections have merely parodied genuine expression …

Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who is popularly referred to as Jagaban. He was born on 29th March 1952 in Lagos, Nigeria. In the mid-1970s, he moved to the United States and took on many odd jobs while he finished his college education. Transcripts show that Tinubu …

Continued from last week Is it possible to love a hateful, corrupt and villainous individual? Is it advisable to prolong a relationship steeped in suspicion, treachery, sabotage and all sorts of abuses? It is probably understandable that no one desires to stay long in a loveless relationship where the prospect of possible change or improvement seems a mirage. Of course, …

Evening of Wednesday 23rd March 2023, the Abuja home of Onyema Ugochukwu, the iconic economist, journalist, administrator, publicist and statesman hosted the landmark birthday celebration of the mother of the family and Ugochukwu’s wife, Joyce. Events commemorating the milestone began in the earlier hours of the evening with a thanksgiving service at the Methodist Cathedral of Unity, Wuse, Abuja, where …

While growing up, there was this song that we used to sing to lampoon, mock or deride the big fool, the big-for-nothing, the brute, the uncouth, and the bully. It went thus: Gongosu, Edidaare Bi o se gun na l’o go to Gongosu, Edidaare. I don’t know the meaning of Gongosu and Edidaare, but they must be abusive words and …

All the members of the household were gathered in the living room. Some were sitting. Some stood. But everybody was talking at the same time. Ruckus. Confusion. Tension. Hauwa, Alhaji’s second wife stood beside her packed, neatly arranged luggage. She was determined to go, yes. She was determined to leave that compound and Alhaji’s home that day. The other two …