• To speak on Peace, Security and Defense

By Vivian C. Iwu

The pioneer Commissioner for Homeland Security and Vigilante Affairs of Imo State, Dr. Ugorji Okechukwu Ugorji, has been invited as one of forty-five (45) experts to participate in a United Nations conference billed as "The Africa We Want and the United Nations We Need" dialogue. To be hosted by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development (SCDDD), the event will take place from March 4 to 6, 2024, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

By Dili Ezughah

e 3 main contestants for the presidential ticket in the 2021 elections, only Tinubu had the testicular fortitude to make unpopular but right decisions for the country, few believed us.

By Funke Egbemode

We called them the ‘happening couple’. Flex (real name was Felix) was a 500 level Medicine student while Tunrayo was a 200 level Law student. Though the two of them were very busy ‘effico’, they spent every free moment together. They went to the bukateria together, walked hand-in-hand to the library and the cinema. They were a reference point especially when we girls wanted to ‘yab’ our NFA male classmates who were in the habit of giving excuses to their girlfriends as to why they couldn’t take them to see a movie at Oduduwa.

By Dare Babarinsa

So, Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe would be carried home like a man who has fallen at the war front. He was a different kind of hero, with a lot of medals and a lot of scars. He won many battles. He, like Admiral Horatio Nelson of Trafalgar, won his last battle, but still fell. He could not have believed that his story would end so soon. He had dashed out to the United States with his wife Chizoba and his son, Chizi. They were to watch the super bowl of American football and then dashed home to resume the fast life and good money they were used to. Now, they are coming home for the final time to join the company of the ancestors.

By Azu Ishiekwene

The resolutions following the Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at the recently concluded summit of Heads of State and Government in Abuja, were truly extraordinary.

By Bolanle Bolawole

Politics apart, the aggregate of opinion is that Nigeria is in a very bad shape; opinion is divided, though, on what needs to be done to return it to a better shape. Has this become a mission impossible? Can Nigeria be salvaged or is it beyond redemption? Is the task of our heroes, past and present, condemned to being like that of Sisyphus? Greek mythology records that Sisyphus, a king of Corinth, was punished in Hades (Hell) for his misdeeds by being condemned eternally to rolling a heavy stone up a hill: Each time he approached the top of the hill, the stone escaped his grasp, rolled to the bottom, ad nauseam, ad infinitum! Nigeria escaped what we thought was a gripping debt burden under President Olusegun Obasanjo only to run headlong into a more scandalously vicious debt trap nuder President Muhammadu Buhari!

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Without stretching one's memory, it is always easier to remember an ill that the police did. This tends to erase whatever good the police did, and still do. Even in the worst of times, we have been beneficiaries of the goodness of the few policeman and women who remind us that policing is fir the society's good.

By Bruce Malogo

All death is bad. To die in one’s sleep does not make it any less so. If anything, it makes it even more so. For the living, those left to mourn, the shock can be paralyzing; in fact, it does paralyze – like the death of Prof. Anselm Emevwo Biakolo. A professor emeritus of Pan Atlantic University, Lekki in Lagos, Biakolo passed on in his sleep on February 8, 2024. People who saw him a few hours before he died said he spent the day in his office. That would suggest that he had no obvious physical distress, not to talk of a hint of death. But that’s the manner of such death. It slitters in and stealthily picks its prey, and let the world bleed all it can.

By Jude Ogechi Eze

The title of this piece was influenced by a drama book titled: "Our Husband has gone mad again" authored and published in 1977, by one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors — Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi.

By Fred Chukwuelobe

I am doing a follow-up to the article I wrote yesterday entitled, “City of David, The Wigwes, And the Iluyomades.” You may think I am over flogging the matter; no, I am not. I am doing this because I got a call from a top level member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), City of David. He called in response to that article and to state his own views and clarify issues raised in it.

By Kunle Oyatomi

There’s this oft-stated legend about two men viewing a glass of water filled halfway. Asked what he or she sees, one says the cup is half empty. Sociologists describe them as pessimists, who would always have a negative outlook to life because they refuse to acknowledge other aspects of the scene. They believe that they have been permanently conditioned by a negativity that would guide them in the present and throughout life.

By Funke Egbemode

The other room is the most important room in the home and in any woman’s life. Every woman knows that. So, don’t mind those who are pretending to be holier than the sacred sanctuary. It’s okay to have powers in and over the other rooms, but a woman who does not know how to wield the influence derivable and derived from the other room is indeed a powerless woman.