“Umu Government School eje la atulu ugha. Hafu ha. Ashi m gi Umu Government School eje la atulu ugha.” (Government School kids don’t tell lies. Let them be. I say, Government School kids don’t tell lies).
Owerri, Nigeria – 4th March, 2025 The Class of 1975 of Government Secondary School Owerri Old Boys Association, is gearing up for an extraordinary week of celebration as it marks …
For those still looking for a proper definition of “America First,” here is one to consider seriously: An ultra-nationalist ideology, closely associated with Mr. Donald Trump, which sees every other …
For decades, a familiar narrative has dominated discussions on global inequality: the nations that once ruled and extracted from others now sit atop the economic hierarchy, while their former colonies …
The 90 year old cricket pitch at Government Secondary School, Owerri, Imo State, Southeast Nigeria, is now wearing a new look. It is also expected to be the preferred venue …
Recently, an article titled “Wake Up Parents: Differences Between Our Parents of the 50s and 80s” has been making the rounds, sparking heated debates across social media and dinner tables …
“Those who make peaceful change impossible makes violent change inevitable.” In 5 years from today, we will be starting a brand new decade, 2030 – 2039. By then, humans might …
We have been inundated with the word North. Northern Elders, Arewa Consultative Forum, Northern Governors Forum etc. But really we are asking , “who are these Northerners?” Let us borrow …
All is not well with our universities, but everyone, including myself, wants to be a Vice-Chancellor. The VC of a broken system. The funding crisis is getting deeper, and there …
On December 4, 2024, news filtered out that Dr. Dele Farotimi, a frontline activist and lawyer was arrested in Lagos the previous day, and subsequently whisked away to Ekiti State …
Ekiti State in Southwest Nigeria is one of those states that literally shy away from the limelight. The last time Ekiti was in the news, I think, was in the …
The founder and chairman of the Geometric Power Group, Professor Bart Nnaji, will receive an honorary doctoral degree from Gregory University, a leading Nigerian private university in Uturu, Abia State, …
The African buffalo is a huge and powerful beast, It is also the subject of fascinating wildlife documentaries with deep lessons for the human society. Weighing up to one ton, …
In a small town on the edge of the Ethiope River in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, a farmer once sold his only piece of land after hearing a …
When I do my quick sweep of WhatsApp group platforms I am looking to see trending issues worth the pause for a read. Recently I found the Tax Reform package …
While acknowledging the increasing flux in most human endeavors in modern times, it has become clear that attempts at refocusing society have all been deep on talk and shallow on …
After all of 18 months, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has seen the light. It has arrived at the same conclusion which most Nigerians (without college degrees in Economics) came …
Leadership is a delicate balancing act that requires well educated vision, strategy, and decisiveness. In Nigeria, however, the governance model under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s bogus Renewed Hope agenda increasingly …
I know far too many Igbo men in their sixties that are slumping and dying that I am constrained to ask whether being an Igbo man in this demographic is …
I am of the Igbo stock from Ukala-Okpunor in Oshimili North LGA of Delta State. I am 61 years of age and have from late 1965, during my undergraduate days …
Much has been written about two of my boyhood classmates – Sam Okoye and Justin Obi – notably by our revered Agbogidi and respected Prof. Anyakoha. Both described them as …
Today, August 3, 2024, he would have turned 90. But he passed away peacefully on June 21, 43 days to his 90th birthday. Still, I feel his presence as always. I hear his words in my ears. I know where he stands on life’s important issues and what he would have said in almost every circumstance. As a mark of remembrance and appreciation, permit me to share with you today just a few of the lessons I learnt from the man I was privileged to call “father.”
Dear Mr. President, As a concerned Nigerian-American, I am writing you this open letter with a heavy heart. I have lived the past 40 years in a country that strives …
Wole Soyinka is by every intellectual and academic classification an iconic figure. His reputation blossomed after he won the Nobel Laureate in 1986 having distinguished himself as a literary genius. …
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has just approved a 300% pay rise for the Chief Justice of Nigeria and other Judicial officers, according to the news. This …
The word japa, originally a Yoruba word, has easily passed into Nigerian pidgin – creole – and might well be on its way into standard international English. It means breaking …
…The prophet said to the crowd which had gathered to hear him, “Listen to this parable:” “Once upon a time, a king sent his son to school in a distant …
Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a …
I am not one of those who believe that President Bola Tinubu does not have a genuine university degree certificate. In the 1970s and 80s when Tinubu went to America, …
Two months in office have brutally exposed this……. Bola Tinubu has guile, he is cunning, and is blessed with significant street smarts, but he is not an intelligent man. Ibrahim …
In a book published in 2019 (The 8 Habits of Highly Ineffective People) I listed 8 traits easily observable among “backward” or “underdeveloped” groups, communities, nations and regions of the …
Humans, like all animals, are easily drawn to optics. We love bright lights and colorful flowers for instance. Conversely, we tend to switch off on ordinary-looking or tedious stuff, even …
I have read a couple of posts about the faceoff brewing between Nigeria and her neighbouring brother, Niger republic. A few things are important to note. War is not an …
As I sat down to write this article, news broke that two teenage sisters, aged 13 and 15, had been nabbed in the Akoko area of Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria, …
Once upon a time, there lived an eccentric but prosperous yam farmer. Along with his wives and many children, he cultivated the land diligently every year. And when harvest time …
Nigerian academic, Professor Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, was among an elite group of researchers who were honored at a presentation ceremony of the Georg Forster Research Awards for 2022, organized …
African folklore is rich in tales of witches and wizards. One of the major narrative threads which mark this literary genre is that before they die, evil practitioners of witchcraft …
Under former President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s Southeast region, the most peaceful at a time, suddenly exploded in a wave of inexplicable violence. Prisons, police stations, court houses electoral commission offices …
At the turn of midnight on 31 December 2022, teenagers made bonfires with condemned tyers and combustible materials from the outgoing year. Like miniature comets, firecrackers blazed through the night …
The list of obnoxious subsidies crippling the Nigerian economy is endless: welcome packages, severance packages, housing allowances, transport allowances, medical benefits, executive fleets, endless convoys, security votes, forex allocations, estacodes …
Although the first gunshots of the Nigerian Civil War were fired in Gakem, Ogoja Province (now Cross River State) on July 6 1967, the roots of the conflict lay much …
(Culled from the book Elephants, The Grass and a Teacher… By Chinyere E. Egbe, 2022) There is a false impression that the most proximate event was what led the country …
Introduction On May 30, 1967, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra as a breakaway, independent country from the state of Nigeria. This was the culmination of one …
The death of the Nigerian Journalism Colossus, Peter Enahoro, stirs a whole lot of emotions and sentiments that justify a brief excursion into the odyssey of Journalism in modern Nigeria.In …
PROFESSOR Oluwole Soyinka needs no elaborate introduction. He is an illustrious son of Africa, and a pride to the black race in a world dominated by white achievements. His 1986 …
After the INEC-enabled Daylight Robbery of February 25 2023, the APC high command is now using divisive politics, intimidation and subterfuge to hush opposition voices and attempt to keep a …
In rural Africa, the market square is not just a place of commerce and business. It also serves as a melting pot for the young and old; natives and strangers; …
When you live in an old, broken and leaking house, you spend a fortune on maintenance and still endure a miserable, uninspiring life under its roof. When a truck comes …
Tomorrow is the 25th of February, 2023. For all long suffering Nigerians, it is a date with destiny. A day of liberation from the evil grip of oligarchs, criminals and …
In Jan, 2019, this court of eminent jurists sat idly by as their head, Chief Justice Walter Onoghen, was hounded out of office like a nonentity by the Buhari administration …
The Supreme Court’s grant of an ex parte injunction in the monetary policy case brought by three states government, Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara against the Federal Attorney General on February …
Greetings! Today, Nigeria stands on a knife edge of destiny, A tuff too precarious to pamper our calm and complacency. On the right is the threshold of history, with a …
Mr. President & Commander-in-Chief Sir, Please accept my deepest sympathy and condolences on your swearing in as leader of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I know that everyone else would …
Distinguished Nigerian academic, Professor Joseph Chemeka Achike Agbakoba, has been announced as recipient of the 2022 Georg Forster Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. Professor Agbakoba, …
So, this professor of mixed Caribbean and Igbo origin has had her fifteen minutes under the lights. Good show! She has stood up to Queen Elizabeth and the British Empire, …
Book Review Title: Elephants, The Grass & A Teacher: Recollections & Reflections on The Nigeria/Biafra War Author: Chinyere E. Egbe, PhD. Publisher: Anewpress (2022) About fifty years after the guns …
After months of failing to put out the fire of a democratic revolution ignited by the candidacy of Peter Obi, apologists of Nigeria’s ancien regime have found a new song. …
With a deep sense of awe and respect, I shudder at the recollection of these piercing words uttered many years ago by SAMORA MACHEL, an illustrious son of Africa and …
If Jesus The Christ lived in Nigeria today, he would have told the Parable of the Good Nigerian in words like these: “A man was traveling from Abuja to Kaduna. …
In a proper democracy, the APC would not be contesting Nigeria’s Presidential Elections in 2023. Not in any real sense. It would, quite rightly, consider 2023 a lost cause. It …
I have carefully read Obi-tuary by Sam Omatseye. I must say that, once again, Sam did not disappoint as an elegant purveyor of prose. But beyond his effervescent style and …
“Go and get your PVC” has lately become a clarion call among Nigerians preparing for general elections in 2023. And rightly so. Everyone agrees that the next polls will make …
An Arise TV interview of Thursday, July 14, 2022, featuring the Honorable Minister of Labor and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, and the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities …
It is no longer news that the British Parliament is shopping for a new leader of the Cabinet, the occupant of Number 10 Downing Street, having served a quit notice …
Nigeria is an amazing and vibrant country with millions of imaginative writers unleashed online at the advent of the social media. The country’s politics is complex and full of never-ending …
Ancient Greeks, the people who gave the world the concept and practice of democracy, believed there were three kinds of people in society. The first were the “Idiots.” The label …
He has exposed the dark secrets of bad governance in Nigeria, especially how politicians milk the public treasury for personal gain and leave the country bankrupt. No one else has …
The frenzy and razzmatazz that enveloped the well-coordinated activities of the two political conquistadors simply electrified the already pulsating atmosphere, as though some clay footed liberators that would take us, …
They killed history to escape its judgement. They obscured accountability to institutionalize corruption. They imposed a rogue constitution to legalize their evil enterprise. They conspired with the legislature to uphold …
Now that the Anambra Governorship election has come and gone, it is apt to reflect on, and possibly draw lessons from, the significant events of those heady days in early …
Most predictably, the Anambra State chapter of the APC, which came a distant third in the state governorship election of November 6, 2021, did not waste time denigrating the poll …
The women of Ebenebe, a sleepy town in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, are the true heroines of the Anambra election which took place last Saturday. A …
An editor with the Renaissance Online Magazine has been elected as the new Assistant National Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN. In a keenly contested election held during …
After twenty years fighting to uproot the bases of Al Qaeda and destroy the conveyor belts of global terrorism, the US and its NATO allies have done what everyone knew …
Do you feel the same way as I do when I hear some of our enlightened compatriots talk about “Opposition Parties” and “Dividends of Democracy” in our present political dispensation? …
The Nigerian petty bourgeoisie is hell bent on destroying the country. It has found itself in a deep hole with the economy. But it is still digging, this time, to …
Petty bourgeois rule in Nigeria is in the throes of death. The economy is in a very deep hole and is still digging. The social fabric of the nation is …
My dear AMANDA SOMADINA AMADI, Adam nwanyi! You are the first JEWEL in my crown; the untamed STRENGTH of my raving youth; my foremost EFFORT at procreation and the debut …
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK It has become a tradition to celebrate a passage of the time called one year which is 365 days. Rightly or wrongly, the passage of a …
1941 Born 14 May 1941 in Onitsha, Nigeria, to Akunne Anthony Chinwuba and Chukwuebuka Winfred Ogbenyeanu Achebe. He was their first child. 1947 – 55 Attends St. John’s Primary School, …
On 31st March 1953, Anthony Eromosele Enahoro, 29, and a member of the Action Group, moved a motion for independence from British colonial rule on the floor of the Nigerian …
Hi, did you know that everything you need to be extremely wealthy and happy is inside of you and nothing outside of you can stop you. You are a living …
President Muhammadu Buhari has once more confirmed his status as Commander-in-Chief of PR disasters. In a recent interview with Arise TV, an event obviously put together by his spin doctors …
Jonas OdochaOwerri House1959-1965. When our versatile and indefatigable OGSSIAN, Olisa Egwuatu, suggested that I should submit a write-up to coincide with the anniversary of the Renaissance magazine, I accepted it …
She looked out the window and sighed deeply. Her thoughts weighed down heavily on her. On the busy street below, her eyes followed a water vendor passing by. In the …
Silence is power, silence is wisdom, silence is a peacemaker. However, Silence is also the reason the discrimination we face today thrives. For this reason, we were all given a …
THEY CAME,ENTERING UNINVITED,YET WELCOMED.THEY CAME,KNOCKING ON DOORS,DOORS THAT GLADLY OPENED TO THEM. WITH IGNORANCE,WE SHOWED THEM ALL,ALL, AND AND THERE CAME THE FALL.WE SHOWED ALLAND THEY SHOWED US THE CROSS. …
Ime Ogbe , the indigenous residential district of the Onitsha kingdom, was more than just a place of residence, it was the cultural hub of our hometown; the ghetto where …
Three recent events, among many others, signpost the onset of a rabid strain of dictatorship right under the nose of Nigeria’s democratic constitution. It is a frightening state of affairs …
This Adumbration has become necessary because, in the avalanche of political crisis that has rocked Rivers State, which has spiralled into a state of emergency today, many people have lost …
On a hot and humid Piscean day, sixty-one years ago, a soul was dropped from heaven into the expectant loins of Madam Flora Egwuatu (nee Oranye). The date was March …
