WISDOM ONIEKPAR IKULI  During the various London Conferences at Lancaster House before the independence of Nigeria, High Chief Harold Dappa-Biriye, who represented tribes and ethnic groups in the geographic... Continue

OBI TRICE EMEKA Earlier this week I provoked an argument on a WhatsApp platform consisting of indigenes of my town. I had argued, as I always do, that our... Continue

BY YUSUF ADEOYE Without prejudice to qualities that count for co-aspirants to the governorship seat in Ogun State, Rt. Abiodun Isiaq Akinlade is one among equals and best fit... Continue

IZUCHUKWU ADICHIE  Exactly four years today, I sat in the Governor’s Library in his Isuofia residence with three other colleagues—our leader, Joe Anatune of blessed memory; Christian Aburime (now... Continue

ERNIE ONWUMERE    There is a timeless Igbo tradition of the Ukpa Ekene, a ceremonial basket of gratitude carried to one who has done well, overflowing with kola nuts,... Continue

BY MOHAMMED IDRIS The last time a Nigerian leader paid a state visit to the United Kingdom, seventy percent of Nigeria’s current population were not yet born. That 1989... Continue