At a time of extreme provocation, leaders are expected to maintain the strictest standards of tolerance and self-control. By getting so emotional and joining the fray in an uncontrollable public uttercation, you effectively lower...
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling – By Jeffrey Goldberg The world found out...
The Supreme Court ruling must have felt like the final whistle to Wike’s camp. His loyalists likely popped champagne, thinking the game was over. “We got him!” they must have cheered, in the same...
It would be disingenuous for anyone interested in the Rivers state political crisis to dismiss the Ijaw angle to it. It is part of our ethnic politics. Since 1999, this is the first time...
Still basking in the euphoria of its Supreme Court judicial victories, within two days, the Rivers State House of Assembly had written three letters -two to the governor and one to the chairman of...
A year ago or thereabouts, in one of my interventions on the political crisis in Rivers state, l posited that despite a flurry of litigations, the crisis would not be solved judicially but politically....
Just before I started reading Ibrahim Babangida’s autobiography, I recall the last speech I wrote for him. I don’t remember whether I sent it to him or whether I published it. I only remember...
In the golden years of Nigerian diplomacy, the world did not condescend to Nigeria. It did not dare. The voice of Nigeria on the global stage was clear, deep, and reverberating. It was the...
With Amad Diallo out for the remainder of the season, there is no doubt that Man United are in deeper trouble, perhaps more than they have ever been in the club’s history. After 14...
My first encounter with the phrase, Reading the Room, was almost 40 years ago as an undergraduate. I was on long vacation and my dad, a Headmaster who seizes every opportunity to impart knowledge,...
