BAT 2023

Those who have not been to Abia State would swallow all that they read in the media from the government of Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji, line, hook and sinker, oblivious that they are glaring lies painted by the government’s propagandists to be taken as truths by onlookers. The good people of Abia State, however, knew […]

Permit me to begin this contribution with the words of Senator Femi Okorounmu who is the Chairman of the President’s Advisory Commitee on the National Conference. In the February 12th edition of the National Mirror Newspaper he said the following about President Goodluck Jonathan- “Jonathan has betrayed the goodwill of the yoruba. The man doesn’t […]Read More

Years after the death of popular musician and evangelist, Sunny Okosuns, the controversy of a love child has hit the family, as his known children disowned an ex-Miss Earth and current Nigeria Project Director of Exquisite Face of Africa, Ethel Okosuns. Ethel, who was Miss Earth 2005, had in an interview in September, linked herself […]

President G. E. Jonathan’s acceptance of the National Conference/Dialog on the 53rd Independence Day, may be a Greek Gift. He was adamantly against it just a few months ago; and was Senator David Mark, just a few weeks ago. For them both to make such a sudden and complete U-Turn, makes the whole thing suspicious. […]

The impression, which has been created in some quarters, is that the position of the chair of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), a non-constitutional body, was at the root of the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).  That is only partly correct.  There were other reasons that conspired to cause aggravation among some leaders […]

In my over five decades on mother earth, I have never comprehended the import of the cliché ‘’never judge a book by its cover” until by divine providence, I met Rt Hon Victor Onyekachi Ochei, the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, during the recent Annual Conference of the Nigerian Guild of Editors […]

Ali Baba is a character from medieval Arabic literature. He is described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. This story has been used as a popular story pantomime plot such as in the pantomime/musical Chu Chin Chow(1916) Popular perception of Ali Baba, and the way he is treated in the […]

Permit me to begin this contribution by quoting a portion of an essay that I wrote on 26 September 2011 which was titled ”On Goodluck Jonathan, David and Goliath”. The portion reads as follows. ”A few days ago from the sacred pulpit of the hallowed chambers of the National Christian Centre in Abuja and in […]

Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke was at the Synagogue Church to be delivered of an unnamed negative spirit that has prevented him from getting married, it has been revealed. Jim Iyke had accompanied the sick mother of a friend to the church, only to be told by the church ministers that he has remained unmarried for […]

Other than the usual congratulations, platitudes, expressions of joy and offerings of thanks to God I believe that as we celebrate our nation’s 53rd independence anniversary it is time for us to bare our minds in a candid and frank manner and to really sit down and think. During her election campaign just a couple […]

As Nigeria marks another Independence anniversary again and divided opinions on whether there is any need to celebrate or not still persist. However, Afenifere Renewal Group observes that those who want us to be thankful are not providing any reason, whether cogent or not, for a national celebration. Year after year, we are told to […]

A person’s ugliness is the god’s doing; the person’s lack of clothing is his/her own fault. How many recall those ‘good ole’ days in secondary school, the Literary & Debating Society days. We visited schools; the debates were intense, yet fun-packed. It was a matter of pride. They were days of the Press Clubs, and […]