“APC no match for (to) PDP—Wike” “It was attack by hoodlums who disguised as masquerades (masqueraders)…” According to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English New Edition for Advanced Learners, among other reference books, ‘masquerade’ (noun and countable) is ‘a formal dance where people wear MASKS and unusual clothes’. Another meaning (countable and uncountable depending on context):…

“If the Crusades were for Europe the dawn of a renaissance they were for our people the beginning of the dark ages. For the Egyptian people almost alone, carried the burden of the Crusaders which left them weak and impoverished ….to submit to the yoke of the Mongols, the hired slaves who became the masters…

I commend the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, not only for finding time to visit and pay tribute to nonagenarian Pa Giwa, but also for what he has done to boost his herbal practice and personal welfare. Gestures which give hope that President Muhammadu Buhari’s Federal Government is out to promote herbal…

“Glory and honour be given to God who answered my prayer through the use of your oil. Mine was the case of near success syndrome; every contract that came to me, if I tender quotation, I will be assured of getting it but at the end it will be given to another person. This has…

There’s a criminal ‘black spot’ I must drive through on my way to work every day. As I drive pass, I see all manner of urchins, in different stages of narcotic and alcohol-induced stupour. While some are hyperactive (jumping all over the place and harassing motorists, commuters and passersby), others are so stoned that they…

ENCORE To be a great leader, there’s no such thing as a challenge too big to handle. Once you adopt this attitude, your people will follow suit, and every problem will present an opening for greater achievement. On this note, we continue and conclude our discourse one of Nigeria’s great patriots, Sir Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa…

SINCE the creation of Abia State in 1991, the greatest socio-political tragedy is the formation of an association called “Ukwa-Ngwa”, which also has a famished elders’ council whose members are largely mercenaries. This is a union between the oil-producing Ukwa (Ndoki) and Ngwa communities in the state. Initially, most people did not take the existence…

Last week travelled faster than light, figuratively speaking. Its very first day opened with gunmen said to be Nigerians who reside in South Africa dastardly attacking St. Philips Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Anambra State. Twenty-four hours thence, a typical Nigerian drama played out. Ageless Charly Boy and a handful of citizens who didn’t look anything like…

The perilous times are indeed with us.  Death stalks man, even in the most unlikely places, the citadel of worship, because our worship is abomination unto God, no thanks to the hardness of the hearts of men. We have shunned the persistent nudging of our inner being, the open wound that only righteousness can heal,…

In Biafra, under three years, they were making their own rockets and calculating its distances; distilling their own oil and making aviation fuel, creating in their Chemical and Biological laboratories, new cures for diseases like Cholera, shaping their own spare parts, and turning the entire East into a vast workshop, as Ojukwu put it. At…