BAT 2023

When I wrote an article titled Failed Government or Failing Citizens in January 2013, I expected a reverberation of mixed comments. I was not disappointed. In that piece, I attempted to challenge the belief system that makes us channel our creative energies towards blaming the government rather than taking responsibility for effecting change and proffering […]

With election year on our hands, deft political movements by politicians have commenced; real and imagined would be opponents to political gladiators have either been marked out for political blackmail or character assassination. Tension is building up every where in Imo State. Name dropping for political advantages has become a past time business in the […]

A year and three months after their marriage, Juwon Lawal, husband of Nollywood actress, Uche Iwuji has sent her away from their matrimonial home over issues relating to adultery. Sources said the relationship had crashed since December 2013, but the estranged husband just released a statement after many weeks of denials, during which the duo […]

I am not exactly a technophobe but my recent experience at the MMIA, in November 2013, has spurred me to write my first blog. A great deal has been said about the eyesore that MMIA has become and still is. Several writers have succinctly detailed the embarrassment the busiest first port of entry to our […]

That former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has gone back to grin alongside some of the same politicians who roundly chastised him into leaving the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria with his tail between his legs is amusing to say the least. It is even more amusing how he has been trying to convince Nigerians that […]

By Prince Charles Dickson


A Nigerian governor is Nigerian, he often than not is an indigene of the State he governs/rules/ or controls.


In rare cases, we know a state governor has actually hailed from another state, and in those cases we have kept the matter under the realm of gossip and conjectures, like one of the […]

The International Federation of Football History and Statistics has rated the Nigerian football league, known as the Globacom Premier League, as the fourth strongest league on the continent for 2013. It also rated the Spanish La Liga as the best in the world during the same period under review. The Tunisian league was rated Africa’s […]

The controversy that followed the separation of estranged lovers, Abolore Akande, popularly called 9ice, and Toni payne, an events planner has continued to reverberate with rumours that the musician left his wife because she was caught cheating. At a time, she was said to have been caught cheating with a family friend and musician, Ruggedman. […]

In my general view I see Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) base as the rich and powerful: Nigerians who have made a lot of money. The party could be described as the Nigerian Conservative Party. I see All Progressive Congress (APC) base as the educated class. The party could also be described as the Nigerian Liberal […]

With its relentless perpetuation of unsavoury politics, the current People’s Democratic Party (PDP) government has, more than any other administration known to Nigerian history, continued to inject a lethal dose of cynicism into the people, so much so that there is an intense feeling of anger in this environment. This makes it impossible to ‘see […]

If anyone had any doubts about the true nature of the opposition in the country, it was erased by comments of the All Progressives Congress (APC); and one of its leading lights, former Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nasir el Rufai, who clearly disclosed to Nigerians, the APC’s Plan B, should the party lose out in […]

On the 20th April 1653 Oliver Cromwell, who was the Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland and the greatest statesman and revolutionary that England ever knew, stormed the English ”Rump Parliament” at Westminster and courageously pronounced the following words after which he sacked Parliament and boldly took power. He said-   ”It is high […]