Columnists

Which Gods Must Be Appeased? By Okey Ndibe
Modern Nigeria’s crisis, I suggest, is primarily a crisis of values. In Umuofia, Okonkwo may give vent to unruly deportment, but his community is also equipped with the coercive instrument for...
Where Did David Mark Get the Funds for His Private University? By Pius Adesanmi
(to the accompaniment of Fela’s “Just Like That”)
Hard View: State Of Emergency To Slate The Insurgency By Hannatu Musawa
So after much deliberation and rigmarole, after much dissent by leading sectors of Nigerians, after the massacres and nauseating murders of men, women and children, the government has finally...
Why Prof. Ango Abdullahi Flunked His Test By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
There are elders and there are elders. Prof. Ango Abdullahi is not an elder. A real elder does not pursue a rat while his house is on fire.
Paying The Police A Livable Minimum Wage By Ogaga Ifowodo
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, wants to raise the entry point salary in the force from N28,000 to N100,000. He is proposing the increase as part of his effort to reform a...
From “Village” Ethics To A Moral No-Man’s Land By Okey Ndibe
One of the enduring lessons in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is that the ethical interests of the Umuofia community assert themselves, again and again, over the overweening pride and impulsive...

Cartoons

Documents

Commentary

Chinua Achebe (Ugonabo Ogidi ) Goes Home By Joe...
All roads lead to Ogidi in Anambra State, Nigeria the home town of the late (Ugonabo) Professor Chinua Achebe on Wednesday May 23 2013 for the sage’s final burial. People from all walks of life...
Nigeria Must Get Real About Its Oil By Mohammed...
The ultimate goal of every benign government, especially of countries so categorised as ‘developing’, and so intended for a keen march into 21st century modernity is to adopt global best...
Chinua Achebe As Metaphor By Ugorji O. Ugorji, Ed...
When I was coming of age in my part of the African continent, I was oriented to four major metaphors for what my environment considered most important in our social discuss.
Achebe And The Quest For Nobel Prize By Vincent...
The controversies that trailed Prof. Achebe’s last book—There Was a Country: A Personal History Of Biafra—came from different perspectives. While some people saw the book as one...
“Nigeria Will Become History …” Nigeria Is...
Melford Dokubo Goodhead Jr., now known as Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo recently set the Nigerian media world literally ablaze at a press conference.

Interviews

SaharaReporters Interview Exclusive: Achebe A...
Also: Why He Wished Achebe Had Not Written His Last Book; What He Told Ojukwu Before The War; Genocide, And Other Issues
TheNEWS Interview: Flawed Implementation Of...
Toyin Akinosho, geologist and former employee of an international oil company is the Publisher of the highly rated Africa Oil and Gas Report and is reputed for his deep knowledge of the Nigerian oil...
PUNCH Interview: Why I Didn’t Talk To Fela For...
Fela Anikulapo’s son, Femi, tells OLUFEMI ATOYEBI and GBENGA ADENIJI what people didn’t know about the late Afrobeat musician.

Letters

Fraud Perpetrated By Mobile Service Providers In...
This piece is aimed at alerting Nigerian to fraud being perpetrated by mobile service provider in Nigeria. I had subscribed to Airtel’s daily internet package which is expected to provide me...
Staff "Disloyalty" In The Nigerian...
Is Aero Cpntractors going the Air Nigeria way? Staff of Aero has been sacked due to "DISLOYALTY". Whilst we are yet to get over the Air Nigeria saga as Staff of Air Nigeria were sacked due...
Truly, Jonathan Should Resign By Taopheeq...
Although I am a regular follower of news and events in and about Nigeria on many fora including online social media, I seldom found any subject that warrant my comment as most issues and comments in...

Press Releases

EFCC Press Release: EFCC Arraigns Fraudster For...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, May 20, 2013 arraigned Damola Orimogunje before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of Lagos High Court, Ikeja on a 16-count charge bordering on...
EFCC Press Release: EFCC Arraigns Two Bankers for...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday May 16, 2013 arraigned the duo of Olisaemeka Onyeka and Dike Chukwunenye before Justice I. L. Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Awka,...
EFCC Press Release: EFCC Declares Sylvanus Okoh...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has declared one Sylvanus Enonche Okoh (alias Anthony Nwabueze, Okpoju Olofu, and General) wanted. The serial scammer, who is standing trial before...
EFCC Press Release - N25 Bn Fraud: Goje’s...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has urged Justice B.O. Quadri of the Federal High Court, Gombe, to discountenance the opposition of Sambo Muhammad Tumu to the admissibility of his...
EFCC Press Release: EFCC Arraigns Former FCDA...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 15, 2013 arraigned one Aminu Ibrahim Gaya before Justice Olasubo Olarenwaju Goodluck of the FCT High Court, Abuja on a four count charge...

Reports

Ambition, Selfishness And Climate Action By...
A Keynote presented by Nnimmo Bassey at the Intensive Practical Course on Climate Change, Environmental Law, Regulation and Management hosted by The Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (...
Why Former IGP Mike Okiro Is Unfit To Chair...
A new report by NOPRIN, the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, has expressed strong opposition to the nomination of Mr. Mike Okiro, a former Inspector General of Police (IGP), as Chairman of the...
Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde’s Murder Was Foretold!...
Being the Text of the First Olaitan Oyerinde Memorial Lecture Delivered by Femi Falana (SAN) at Imaguero College  Hall; Sapele Road, Benin City, Edo State on May 6, 2013