Please permit me to be vulgar here. My people have a pithy and sententious way of saying the truth. They say that when the penis is erect, standing ramrod like the palm tree, it would appear as if it will perforate the vagina to the other side. But it doesn’t. Its power is ephemeral. It will do its beat at that moment and wizen when it has done justice to the assignment. That is how power is! Full article
It is difficult for me to write this tribute. Initially, I tried to resist it because I couldn’t make sense out of this thing called life. But when it dawned on me that this was the last opportunity I had to vent my feelings, at least in public, I decided to write. Full article
It was on a Saturday, I had retired for the day when one of my staff came to me, almost crying. I asked him what the matter was with the change in his countenance. He narrated how his sister who would be sitting for her Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) this month was driven out of school. Full article
After several years of legal fireworks in search of justice, the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on March 9, 2017 delivered judgment on the gruesome and dastardly killing of six Igbo traders by some trigger-happy police officers. Full article
Chief Ken Nnamani is one politician of Igbo extraction I hold in high esteem. My respect for him began shortly after his election as Senate President in the second tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo. That was between 2005 and 2007. I had not met him in person, but our paths seem to have crossed in our serendipitous journey to uphold the truth and do the needful. Full article
For the past 28 years I have plied my trade as a journalist, I have tacitly refrained from commenting on matters that have religious undertone. The reason is simple. I understand the impact of religion in the world. I understand its spiritual and emotional impact on individuals. Full article
By Friday this week, January 20, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama will recede from the international limelight—and perhaps from the memory of America’s moral majority—as the President of the most powerful nation on the earth hands over the baton to Donald Trump. Full article
Fellow Ebonyians, how can someone who is not part of the executive be allowed to sit in the chambers of the Executive Council? It is like sitting at the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja with the President presiding, or being part of the Senate with Saraki and his gavel on the table. Full article
As Americans go to the polls this week, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will keep a date with history as she emerges first woman president in America. The odds favour her. All the parameters and political permutations point to an election that is divisively on her side, especially as Americans still believe in the charm and magic of her husband. Full article
Since Aisha Buhari’s imprecatory revelations some days ago about her anger with the President, which borders on her husband’s less than stellar performance in the presidency 17 months after, Nigerians and indeed the whole world are beginning to wonder what type of woman she is. Full article