BAT 2023

A hunting lion cannot be said to lack high mathematical intelligence in predicting movements of its prey just as humans, more so, we learnt in the modern age that quantum physics can explain key aspects of any ‘matter’ in our universe, regardless of how minute it is in size or weight to us. However, an […]

Nigeria`s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) faces its biggest threat in 14 years, after a newly formed opposition coalition was given the green light to contest a presidential election due in 2015. On July 31st the electoral authority approved the merger of the three leading opposition parties—the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the All Nigeria […]

”The claim that the igbo helped to develop Lagos is hogwash. The major institutions of the south-west were developed by the diligence, hard-work, industry and sweat of the yoruba people. This is a historical fact” Femi Fani-Kayode I posted these words on my facebook wall as a fall out from the hot debate that was […]

“Is the birth of the APC good for Nigeria? I can’t say until they’re tested. Is the birth of the APC good for Nigeria’s democracy? Absolutely!” –Ogunyemi Bukola After months of wrangling among Nigerians and wangling by its detractors, the long-awaited merger of three major opposition parties in Nigeria, the All Progressives’ Congress (APC), finally […]

Chief E. K. Clark may not be the most popular politician in the country. There are people who dread him for his harsh criticisms. They do everything to avoid him. Clark could hound anybody no matter how well or highly placed. He is the old man of Nigerian politics and sometimes the politicians don’t know […]

I read with dismay the letter written by  the Chief Judge of Imo  State, Honourable Justice Benjamin Ahanonu Njemanze via his solicitor Prof F.C Dike( SAN) of  Nnaji  Dike Chambers  threatening  libel suit against Emperor Iwuala and two media houses based in Owerri  (Trumpeta Newspaper  and Nigerian Newspoint Newspaper ) over  Iwuala’s article ‘the controversial […]

Honourable Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi has congratulated the home-based Super Eagles for qualifying for the CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) taking place in January 2014 South Africa. The team qualified for the championship for the first time ever after a 4-3 aggregate win over the home-based Elephants of […]

I expressed my concerns about the issue of paedophilia and child brides in Nigeria quite extensively in an essay that I wrote last week titled ”A Nation Of Perverts and Paedophiles” which was widely published and which attracted a lot of rejoinders and commentries from other writers and commentators from both sides of the divide. […]

The raging political crises in Rivers State take different u-turn each passing day. Many have happened and are still to happen if opinion leaders, stakeholders and holders of sundry portfolios do not rise and send this anarchical approach that some persons have mapped out to unseat a sitting and an elected governor of Rivers State. […]

President Jonathan and Governor Amaechi have been dancing shamelessly on Nigeria’s political space that a vote for David Cameron and British Re-colonization of Nigeria is very expedient if the African Giant can survive. Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi had so far managed to defeated the gang-up against his political ambitions including President Jonathan, his wife […]

Nigerians may soon witness chaos in Nollywood and other groups comprising the country’s entertainment industry if nothing is urgently done to stop the internal wrangling in the film industry over the recent N3bn Federal Government grant to the entertainment industry. President Goodluck Jonathan had some time ago announced the inauguration of Project Nollywood, a programme […]

Nigeria’s hope of early economic rejuvenation and growth may have been sadly foreclosed by CBN Governor Lamido Sanusi, in a recent presentation to the House Committee on Banking and Finance in Abuja, when, despite the clarion demand by industrialists and Chambers of Commerce, he noted that “although the CBN has put in place several monitoring […]