• * Says Rivers Electorates Will Uproot PDP's Impunity In 2023

• 'Accord Party, Popular With The People'

• Endorses Dumo Lulu-Briggs (DLB) As Right Man For The Job

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Foremost Niger Delta activist and top-rate organic intellectual, Alatubo Charles Piriye Harry, has appraised the political developments in his State, Rivers, in the past 23 years, and projects that the people's power at the polling booths, will overthrow the impunity culture and sub-standard governance which has allegedly characterized the oil-rich state since the dawn of democracy in 1999.

By Azu Ishiekwene

It’s a great time to be a football lover. It might not feel exactly so if your country is not one of the 32 taking part in the 22nd edition of the World Cup in Doha, Qatar. But being a fan means managing to love the game without having your dog in the fight.

By Bolanle Bolawole

When we thought the dust had settled on the eight-month-long strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), President Muhammadu Buhari’s fumbling and wobbling administration came up with its pro-rata as opposed to half-pay nonsensical dichotomy. In this instance, what is the difference between half-salary and the pro-rata payment the ASUU members received last October? For lecturers who had gone without pay for eight months, especially those of them with no other visible or viable means of livelihood other than their monthly salary, the semantics of half-pay and pro-rata is not only frustrating, it is also the last thing they had expected from a government alive to its responsibilities, especially to our youth who have wasted, in one stretch, close to two academic sessions that cannot be totally regained, no matter what the lecturers do to try to cover lost ground.

By Emeka Obasi

Dan Anyiam planned to create a standing Feeder team to boost the Green Eagles. The idea was about bringing the best young legs from the four Regions and camp them in Lagos. Chief Eddie Enwere was one of those selected from the Eastern Region.

• "Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point." - Criss Jami

By Jude Ogechi Eze

Conspiracy theory is widely regarded as the poorest form of political propaganda. But that doesn't diminish the fact that for every rumour, there is a suppressed truth waiting to surface, same way every smoke points to an underlying fire that betrays the trail. Since Peter Obi's defection from PDP to Labour Party (LP), with his street credibility frenzy, the party has become the first ipso facto "third force" in Nigeria's 23-year old democracy.

By Azu Ishiekwene

Not so long ago, he was the poster boy of what looked like an African renaissance. Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo didn’t only know what to say, he also knew when and how. I still remember 2018. Barely one year after Akufo-Addo was inaugurated, he was on the big stage.

By Godknows Igali

In the truest apogee of human celebratory expression, Her Imperial Majesty, Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, and most prominent global matriarch was laid to rest on Monday, 19th September, 2022 at St. Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle in the outskirts of London. Reminiscent of a time when her forebears on that throne of the House of Windsor/Hanoverians, the 300 year old ruling family of her country boasted with unrestrained pride that "Britannia rules the waves", the entire world gathered to pay last tributes to her.

By Emeka Obasi

Moroccans are unstoppable in African football. RS Berkane are Super Cup holders as well as Confederation Cup champions. The CAF Champions League trophy is domiciled in Casablanca with Wydad Athletic.

By Bola Bolawole

Circumstances have an uncanny way of radicalising even the most conservative of men – and women. Such a situation is what we are witnessing right now in Nigeria. Many of those leading secessionist moves in the country today would, ordinarily and in normal situations, not do so. Many fire-eating Marxists of yore have become what some derisively call tribal jingoists and ethnic irredentists or chauvinists.

By Jude Ogechi Eze

In the words of one of the most electric and practical child-rearing experts in contemporary times -- Dr. Ron Taffel: "even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride"

By Hassan Gimba

We are in a new phase of politics hitherto never witnessed in our country. Sure, politicians that lost out in their parties are known for changing platforms. That isn’t new. They call it cross-carpeting.

By Bolanle Bolawole

Mother, mother/Why/Why was I born Black? – Okot p’Bitek in “Song of Lawino”

As I woke up on Friday morning, lay in bed and performed the routine of prayers, meditation, and introspection, it ministered to me that we die every day but also wake up every day; until, finally, we die one day never to wake up again.