Advice To Nigerians in 2025 – By Dominic Ikeogu
“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 …
WHO ARE THE REAL NORTHERNERS? By Davidson Rotshak Lar
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 …
I want to be a Vice Chancellor – By Prof Abdelghaffar Amoka Abdelmalik
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 …
NIGERIA’S OBSOLETE CRIMINAL DEFAMATION LAWS SHOULD BE ABROGATED – By Chuma Uwechia
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 …
THE TRIAL OF BROTHER DELE – By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
Prof. Nnaji, Geometric Power Founder, To Receive 7th Honorary Doctorate – By By C Don Adinuba
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 Buffalo and the Lion Pride: Lessons from the African Savanna – By Victor Anazonwu
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, …
Faith for Sale: Restoring the Sacred in a World of Religious Exploitation – By Charles Ugwu, PhD
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 …
MUCH ADO ABOUT TAX REFORMS – By Pat Utomi
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 …
Re-imagining our faith – Living without pretense – By Charles Ugwu, PhD
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 …
IMF, Renewed Hope & Voodoo Economics -By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
NIGERIA’S LEADERSHIP GAMBLE: A CRITIQUE OF GOVERNANCE WITHOUT STRATEGY By Asiegbu Agwu Nkpa
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 …
Is being Igbo and 60+ a Morbidity Factor? By Aniedobe
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 …
The Igbo Spirit By Peter Alexander Egom
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 …
Geniuses and Classmates By Nwankwo Bruno
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 …
5 LESSONS MY FATHER TAUGHT ME By Victor Anazonwu
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.”
Open Letter To President Tinubu On Corruption BY Dom Ikeogu
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 …
Why Soyinka Should Leave Obidients Alone By Promise Adiele
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. …
WHO IS KILLING THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY & WHY? By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
What “Japa” Really Means By Joseph C. A. Agbakoba
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 …
PARABLE OF THE PRINCE AND HIS CERTIFICATE By Victor Anazonwu
…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 …
NYSC: Slaughtering Certificate Racketeers Since 1973 By Eze Chinweuba
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 …
TINUBUNOMICS: The Political Economy of Poverty By Victor Anazonwu
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, …
Bola Tinubu’s biggest shortcomings are rooted in debilitating intellectual laziness – By Kola Odetola
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 …
Africans Fighting Against Africans: NIGER, ECOWAS & THE REST OF US By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
Edeoga vs. Mbah: The Optics and Forensics of an Electoral Battle By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
Say NO to the impending war By Cyril Oleh, PhD
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 …
Faking it to Make it: By Victor Anazonwu
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, …
PARABLE OF THE WEIRD WEALTHY FARMER By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
Prof Agbakoba Receives International Research Award
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 …
Between Wike & Akpabio: The Wizards of Nigeria are Confessing By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
How Asari Dokubo Solved the Mystery of Unknown Gunmen: By Our Team of Security Correspondents
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 …
BUHARI’S PRESIDENCY: THE SOB OF A BATTERED NATION By Victor Amadi
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 …
REMOVE THE LIFESTYLE SUBSIDY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
CIVIL WAR REFLECTIONS: RELIVING THE TRAGEDIES OF BIAFRA, 56 years on (2)
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 …
Civil War Reflections (1) The Genesis of a Brothers’ War
(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 …
Civil War Reflections: Reliving the Tragedies of Biafra, 56 years on
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 …
Peter Enahoro, Journalism Personified! By Nnamdi Nwigwe
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 …
*THE PRICE OF GOING TO BED WITH FLEA-INFESTED DOGS* A RESTRAINED RESPONSE TO SOYINKA’S OBLOQUY By Victor Amadi
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 …
FESTUS KEYAMO, APC AND THE DENIGRATION OF NORTHERN NIGERIA. By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
WHEN ROBBERY HAPPENS IN THE MARKET PLACE By Victor U. Amadi
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; …
Strange Reasons Why Nigerians Should Be Grateful To Buhari By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
*LET YOUR VOTE COUNT* By Dr. Victor Amadi
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 …
Currency Redesign: Why the Supreme Court doesn’t have my Sympathy By Anonymous Nigerian
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 …
Making Sense of the Supreme Court’s Position in the Currency Change Case By Chuma Uwechia
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 …
“NEVER AGAIN”: NEW YEAR MESSAGE TO ALL NIGERIANS By Victor U. Amadi
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 …
LETTER TO THE NEXT NIGERIAN PRESIDENT By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
Prof Agbakoba wins Prestigious Georg Forster (International) Research Award By Victor Anazonwu
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, …
UJU ANYA, THE QUEEN & THE REST OF US By Nwaonicha
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, …
An Audacious Account of the Biafran War By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
WHY OBIDIENTS ARE “INTOLERANT” OF DISSENT By Victor Anazonwu
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. …
“FOR THE NATION TO LIVE THE TRIBE MUST DIE” By Victor U. Amadi, MD.
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 …
Parable of The Good Samaritan Retold For Nigerian Audiences By Victor Anazonwu
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. …
God Save the Jagaban By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
SAM OMATSEYE – A MATTER OF CHARACTER By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
In Search of my Elusive PVC By Victor Anazonwu
“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 …
ASUU vs. FG: The Real Reasons Why Our Universities Are Still Shut By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
Race for Number 10: Conservatives yet Democratically Progressive By Ikenna Mbata
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’s Tectonic Turning Point & Peter Obi by Chuma Uwechia, Esq.
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 …
Idiots, Tribesmen & Citizens: Between Ancient Greeks and Modern day Nigerians By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
7 Good Reasons Why Most Politicians Hate PETER OBI By Victor Anazonwu
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 Greatest Political Fireworks: The Clash Between Prince Bath and Elenco By Erasmus Ndulue
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, …
Sinking of The Nigerian Ship: Posterity Will Not Forgive The Complicit By Victor U. Amadi, MD
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 …
ANAMBRA ON MY MIND: Lessons from the Heart of “Dot Country” By Victor Anazonwu
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 …
#ANAMBRA DECIDES: HOW APC GENERALS WERE CONFOUNDED BY THE POWER OF DEMOCRACY By IfeanyiChukwu Afuba
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 …
ANAMBRA ELECTION AND THE WOMEN OF EBENEBE By James Eze
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 …
IKENNA MBATA EMERGES NEW PSN ASS. NATIONAL SECRETARY AS NIGERIAN PHARMACISTS CHANGE GUARD
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 …
LESSONS FROM AFGHANISTAN AS AMERICA RETREATS & THE TALIBAN RETURNS By Victor Anazonwu
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 We Really Have Opposition Parties in Nigeria? By Nnamdi Nwigwe
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? …
Herdsmen and Farmers in Nigeria By PROF. OKWUDIBA ALBERT NNOLI
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 …
Searching for Successor to Petty Bourgeois Rule in Nigeria (1) By Prof Okwudiba Nnoli
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 …
LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER @ 20 By Dr. Victor AMADI
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 …
The Renaissance @ One Moving Nicely Along.
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 …
The making of a king; Timeline & Story of HIS MAJESTY NNAEMEKA ALFRED UGOCHUKWU ACHEBE OBI of Onitsha @ 80
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, …
Restructuring Nigeria: myths, fears & reality by Victor Anazonwu
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 …
All you need is within you: by Chinwe Ezeanya
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 …
One speech, one trouble by Victor Anazonwu
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 …
Reminiscing on the anthill colony: by Sir Jonas Odocha
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 …
Constable Amaka (A short story) Part 1 by Raluchukwu Anazonwu
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 …
My voice, an equal future: by Afoma Egwuatu
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 …
The rape attack: by Mr Theophilus Emelayo
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. …