- As Prince Arthur Eze returns to a familiar role as an Igbo President Personal Actualizer for Governor Soludo Fifty-three (53) years ago this week, the Nigerian Civil War ended. Ndigbo whose secessionist state, Biafra, had been defeated sought afterwards to rebuild their sense of community, gather their thoughts, and…

Hon. Okey Okoye and Mr. Cyril Chiegboka, his aide, set out from Awka in his Sienna minivan in the evening of May 15, 2022. They were headed for an undisclosed location and their mission was unknown: Both men never completed that commute. They were waylaid somewhere on Aguluzigbo Road in…

Lessons for Nigeria’s Labour Party as the Democratic Party pulls off electoral victories in Georgia On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, Georgians went to the polls for a senatorial runoff contest between the Democratic Party’s Rev. Raphael Warnock and Republican Party’s Herschel Walker. The incumbent, Senator Warnock, prevailed to give the…

“The meeting of minds between Sir Lugard and the leaders of the Sokoto Caliphate was not surprising for, in practice, there were no emotional or philosophical differences between imperialism which Lugard championed and the feudalism in Northern Nigeria before British colonial rule.” — An unpublished work Britain operates a parliamentary…

I would have loved to say that Lionel Messi is the greatest of all time and that he didn’t need to lift the ‘solid gold’ FIFA World Cup trophy to prove it. But that would be speaking for only two-thirds of the 4 billion people who love this beautiful game…

“But that statement he (Pele) made concerning me, which was captured on the pages of all the national dailies inspired me to get to where I am today. I later followed his career and even bought his book. He was my role model because he was a complete gentleman.” …

(LONG LIVE MESSI — THE LION KING) The Beautiful Game Pele’s greatest gift to football was to give it a fitting moniker which begins to capture — but never completes — the indescribable mystic of the king of all sports: “O jogo bonito!” That Portuguese appellation which means the beautiful…

THE GHOST OF THOMAS SANKARA AND BURKINA FASO’S FANTASY OF A ROMANCE WITH RUSSIA Thirty-five years ago, this October 15, Campaore murdered his friend Thomas Sankara, on behalf of his French paymasters. After the latest instalment of coup in Ouagadougou, Burkinabes poured into the streets, waving Russian flags, to protest…

THE TRIALS OF SALMAN RUSHDIE AND THE MEN WHO WOULD ERECT A THEOCRACY IN NIGERIA Part 1 “In the name of God Almighty … I would like to inform valiant Muslims in the world that the author of the book titled The Satanic Verses, which has been compiled, printed, and…