BAT 2023

The Nerve of  Kaita, The Shame of Mohammed     In the last few days the following contributions from two eminent personalities have inflammed passions and been the topic of heated debate all over the country. The first came from Alhaji Lawal Kaita, a respected elderstatesman and a former Governor of the old Kaduna state […]

Manchester City and Cote d’Ivoire midfielder Yaya Toure has been named the 2013 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) African Footballer of the Year. After being nominated for the fifth straight year but only winning it for the very first time, Yaya could not hide his delight at fending off competition from Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Burkinabe Jonathan […]

Aso Rock seems to have again opened up another controversy because of struggle for who to occupy the seat come 2015. Politics, they say, is indeed, unpredictable. That is why those who analyse it would warn that, nobody should come to any conclusion until the last word has been spoken or action has been taken […]

Several questions readily present themselves in the lingering imbroglio surrounding Aviation Minister Stella Oduah. However, perhaps none is more relevant than this simple but pertinent question: who is really after her and why?   It is important to raise this question from the outset for the single reason that the sustained campaign of calumny against Oduah […]

Popular comedian, Julius Agwu has instituted a N100m law suit against telecommunications firm, Etisalat as compensation for the illegal blockage of his phone after travelling out of the country for just nine days. In a letter to the managing director of Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services (Etisalat Nigeria), Agwu’s lawyer, Festus Keyamo claimed that several attempts […]

At 72 years of age, Murtala Alhaji Haman-Yero Nyako ordinarily supposed to be a man of justice, equity and good conscience. But as it is now, Murtala Nyako is a man of injustice, hate, nepotism and base avarice. Chief General Olusegun Obasanjo must apologise to Adamawa people unreservedly. In his Wikipedia biography, Murtala Nyako claims […]

Eagles do not hide when they see a storm gathering, lions do not retreat when the enemy threatens and kings do not run when they hear the sound of battle. Rather the eagle flies boldly into the eye of the storm without a trace of fear but with power, majesty, grace and passion. The lion […]

Friday Njengo, a member of the Golden Eaglets team that played the qualifiers for the 2013 CAF African Youth Championship, has died. Njengo died on Sunday night at the National Hospital, Abuja. He had been in intensive care unit of the hospital for almost a year, since he sustained fatal injuries in a car crash. Confirming the death, […]

If you ever dream of a country where her leaders are birds of a feather, where followers pray for their leaders fall­ ­– check Nigeria. With different ethnic groups, with many religions and even varying political school of thoughts, our leaders still come together, fashion out ways of looting the country’s treasury. I wonder why […]

In ageless Africa, it is said that the heart that gives love is humane, but the one that demonstrates care, is simply godly.In simple terms, our ancestors, long ago, realised that while love is desirable, care, its nobler variant, is ideal.Luckily, our subject-Rt. Hon. Victor Onyekachi Ochei, has both virtues( love and care) in the […]

Not many people realise these days the manner in which the governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, was railroaded as the gubernatorial candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in his state in 2007. The retired Rear Admiral was in his farm when his former boss in the military, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, sent […]

Popular Nigerian dancehall artiste, Fada U-turn, who reigned mostly in the 1990s, is dead.  The Kogi State (Kabba) born artiste died on Sunday at 36 at a hospital in Okokomaiko, Lagos after a protracted illness, which some people said was a liver disease. The singer, songwriter, radio presenter and recording artiste and had five children. He worked […]