* Nigeria’s not Lagos ...

By Steve Osuji

Voice of a statesman is also the voice of God: Yes, it’s not just the voice of the people that’s the voice of God, as that age-old aphorism suggests. And there’s no doubt that former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is the last true statesman standing today. Of course, the hallmark of statesmanship is the audacity to say things others only murmur about.

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Paul Anyebe was a judge of the High Court of Benue State in north-central Nigeria who had a young son with sticky fingers and a sense of adventure It was his role as a dad that endangered his job as a judge.

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

PUT nothing beyond Nigerians. Some of us lug the bragging rights to understanding Nigeria, that Nigeria cannot confuse them. I willingly concede knowledge of Nigeria to them.

By Bolanle Bolawole

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit (Proverbs 26: 4 - 5).

By Hassan Gimba

The topic on everybody’s, well, almost everybody’s, lips now is tax reform. Everybody has become an expert, so everyone is discussing it: the experts, the neophytes, and even those who do not give a hoot. Nigerians love to talk, dissipate energy, joke about it, and then move on as if nothing happened.

By Kenneth Ikonne

I like Mr. Dele Farotimi, his courage, forthrightness and pan-Nigerian views. But anyone with a basic understanding of the principles of the law of libel, will concede that Mr. Farotimi is in hot soup, and that there might be nothing untoward in his arraignment in a Magistrate Court in Ekiti State on charges of criminally defaming foremost lawyer, Chief Afe Babalola, SAN!

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

FOR most of Tuesday I started doubting if there were two refineries in Port Harcourt after those I spoke with insisted that there was one refinery in Port Harcourt, the one that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, announced its triumphant return to production.

By Femi Akomolafe

Although, as I often write, I do not have any dog in any fight in the US or non-African issues, I do dabble in writing about them, but only in the context in which they relate to Africa.

By Azu Ishiekwene

I was watching the evening news on Monday night when two presenters used a word at different times that jolted me. I’ve heard and seen that word used often, especially by millennials and Gen Z, but I didn’t entirely pay heed because they were mostly in informal settings.

By Ugorji Okechukwu Ugorji

I was vacationing in the United States of America with my family in October of 2024 (in addition to some work on the Harris-Walz Campaign) when I received confirmation about the dates of the upcoming celebrations of Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari's 80th birthday. There would first be a public presentation of a festschrift in his honor in Ilorin on November 21, 2024. Then there would be a commemorative event at the Savannah Centre in Abuja (the headquarters of the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development), which Gambari founded and established. And then there would be the grand finale on November 24, 2024 - the actual 80th anniversary date of his eventful birth.

By Chinyere Obiora-Ekwuazi, Henry Ukwadia, Hadiza Abdul Abubakar

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) was strategically established in 1992 as the only purpose-built intervention agency of the Federal Government, having the mandate of nurturing an appropriate and dynamic science and engineering infrastructure base for achieving home-initiated and home-sustained industrialization of Nigeria.

By Bola Bolawole

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise” - Victor Hugo (in "Le Hus Miserables").

Is Biafra an idea whose time has come? Victor Hugo (26 February, 1802 - 22 May, 1885) says “Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come”. Another variant of the same quotation says: “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come” (Hugo in "The Future of Man").