Nigeria still has a chance — not because of its politics but because of its people. Not because of its institutions but because of its insistence. Not because everything is working but because something refuses to stop working: the spirit…

Several media channels (News Central TV, Daily Trust, Rapid 96.5 FM, Umuahia and Metro 97.7 FM, Lagos) have interviewed me on today’s protest against insecurity organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress. They all wanted to know if the Comrade Joe…

I do not judge or condemn those who have separated, or are presently facing enormous pains in their marriages. I pray for healing for them. But honesty demands this: A pastor’s repeated divorce or a believer’s divorce outside biblical grounds…

Nigeria’s political landscape is getting a little bit scarier as opposition politicians and their parties seem to be losing ground daily to the ruling All Progressives Congress in the deadly game of wits that is called politics. It got even…

Supreme Court of Nigeria Yesterday, 15 December, the Supreme Court of Nigeria struck out the suit filed by 11 governors of states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenging the emergency rule imposed on Rivers State by President Bola…

With his former and even new party in crisis, federal power aligned against him and new political alliances forming, Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, faces the toughest test of his political career. Adeleke was first known as the dancing senator.…

We need to start rebuilding from the bottom all over again. The battle is rural, as I have argued in another intervention. Important as it is to set up forest guards, we need to do much more, starting with reclaiming…

Even after all these years, the memory that sticks out to me most was how I was told of the death of my mother, Mojisola Ajoke adelakun. That moment became definitive for me, almost like the death of Jesus came…

Udom Inoyo, the former ExxonMobil chief, must be a fulfilled man. A few years ago, he came up with an extraordinary idea — that of instituting an award to boost investigative journalism in Akwa Ibom State. It was the first…

Enugu’s push to become a globally competitive city by stopping the operation of Keke and yellow buses is vexingly ambitious. According to the Commissioner for Transport, Obi Ozor, the affected (roads) corridors include Okpara Avenue, Abakaliki Road, New Haven Junction,…

…dear President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I respectfully and passionately appeal to you to reconsider and jettison any move that elevates your Aide-de-Camp above his seniors through accelerated or exceptional promotion. At this critical moment in our nation’s security journey, restraint,…

The Christmas season is universally known for its heavy financial implications. Parents fret over the loads of expectations from their children and dependents. Institutions frantically arrange for special bonuses or gifts for staff. Friends excitedly make plans for the best…

Frantz Fanon The reimagination of the African condition can take a cue from Fanon’s “New Humanism,” (Fanon, 1963, pp. 245) to be realised by a liberation project that leaves no one behind and is embedded in the people’s culture. The…

Image credit: Transcend Media Service. …Fanon’s legacy for African journalism is a call to a higher purpose. Reflecting on his life, I see that he gives us not a strict rulebook, but a “weary road to rational knowledge.” This path…