A year ago, Mele Kolo Kyari was named as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He succeeded Maikanti Baru, now of blessed memory. On July 8, 2019, the then incoming GMD made the...
Everything has beauty not everyone sees it—Confucius
So over the week, I had the pleasure of some wonderful Fulani guests, two males and two females, they were all 'full' Fulanis, but one was black...Black Fulani are not an everyday sight....
BEVERLY HILLS, July 06, (THEWILL) - ''It has been long coming. Expect things to be done differently from now on,'' a source in the thick of things told me regarding the ''arrest'' of Ibrahim Magu, acting EFCC chairman, by...
In a season of partisan frenzy, with many red-eyed politicians focused on various power-grab projects, discipline, party supremacy and rule-governed processes become threatened, as it was in the enclave of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) until recently when...
What happened to Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and how did Nigeria lose its potential power as the place to be for all Africans at home and from diaspora? Seriously, both cease to exist when we need them most! It...
One of the most worrisome developments in today's Nigeria is what appears like a firm resolve by the Muhammadu Buhari regime to continue circulating the very distressing impression that it does not know how to solve the endless aggression...
Wike It came like a bolt out of the blue. Early this week, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, issued an advertisement, which went in a completely different direction compared to what he had always said of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The...
I have this Childhood's fantasy about the myth that a Cat has nine lives. It's a terrific secret that I have kept close to my chest up until these moments of reflection on the persistent accusations from top flight...
I came in full cognisance with the normality of influence peddling for jobs when I was covering the national assembly. It is a run-off-the-mill practice, which has become permissive, for lawmakers to scribble a long list of names of...
“Social cohesion is built over years and is the result of policies that allow everybody in society to share in its sustainable prosperity,” Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa, Director - UNDP Africa.
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Africa, countries are...