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By Sonny Iroche Since the return to civilian rule in 1999, Nigeria’s Fourth Republic has seen regular elections and peaceful transfers of power, a milestone after decades of military rule. However, analysts note that politics is still dominated by a narrow elite within two major parties, fueling disillusionment. Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution established a strong presidential…
May 4, 2025
By Sonny Iroche Recent comments suggesting that one must hold a journalism degree to practice the profession are mistaken. Journalism is fundamentally a skill-based field where critical thinking, analytical rigor and high ethical standards matter far more than any particular diploma . In fact, journalism long predates formal academic programs – the first university degree…
May 2, 2025
By Sonny Iroche Nigeria is a country of immense promise — blessed with a young population, natural resources, and creative energy. Yet, the day-to-day reality for many Nigerians is one of disorder, filth, noise, and indifference to public space and safety. The current state of economic hardship plaguing the country- both rich and poor, epileptic…
April 30, 2025
Professor Abimbola Adelakun left Ibadan, the city of Brown Roofs, to study and live a new life in Austin, the Bat City. Her next abode is now the Windy City, where she has accepted a prestigious job at the University of Chicago, an Ivy League. Let me take the story from the middle, as the…
April 29, 2025
The world came together on a warm April morning in Rome. Under Bernini’s wide colonnade, a simple wooden coffin lay, almost shy against the grand marble of St. Peter’s. It held the body of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis; it also carried a final message, passed without words. As I watched the…
April 28, 2025
Pope Francis had a great sense of humor. When I met him once at the back of the papal plane, I cracked a joke with him that was a little bit close to the line. Luckily, he roared with laughter and told me “Sei cattivo!” (“You’re naughty!”). Every day, he used to say, he prayed…
April 27, 2025
By Kevin Carmichael Scary thought, isn’t it? We have our strengths, but we’ve long had the fantastic luck of playing wing on a line centred by the global economy’s dominant player—the French and British empires at the start of our colonial history, and then the U.S. as European power receded. That was never a wise…
April 27, 2025
By Bolanle Bolawole [email protected] 0705 263 1058 “Waiting for an African Pope” by my brother, Azu Ishiekwene, made an interesting reading. Azu’s immense fecundity, as usual, his flawless prose, and free-flowing minting and weaving of words will always be a delight anyday. “Waiting for an African Pope” ended while I was still enjoying it! Did…
April 27, 2025
On December 13, 1972, Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, signed into law the Constitution (Amendment) Acts, numbers 3,4 and 5 ending the country’s First Republic and ushering in a new constitution for the country, which promised a “One-Party Participatory Democracy” under “one and only one party…., namely, the United National Independence Party (UNIP).” All of…
April 27, 2025
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By Sonny Iroche Since the return to civilian rule in 1999, Nigeria’s Fourth Republic has seen regular elections and peaceful transfers of power, a milestone after decades of military rule. However, analysts note that politics is still dominated by a narrow elite within two major parties, fueling disillusionment. Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution established a strong presidential…
May 4, 2025
By Sonny Iroche Recent comments suggesting that one must hold a journalism degree to practice the profession are mistaken. Journalism is fundamentally a skill-based field where critical thinking, analytical rigor and high ethical standards matter far more than any particular diploma . In fact, journalism long predates formal academic programs – the first university degree…
May 2, 2025
By Sonny Iroche Nigeria is a country of immense promise — blessed with a young population, natural resources, and creative energy. Yet, the day-to-day reality for many Nigerians is one of disorder, filth, noise, and indifference to public space and safety. The current state of economic hardship plaguing the country- both rich and poor, epileptic…
April 30, 2025
Professor Abimbola Adelakun left Ibadan, the city of Brown Roofs, to study and live a new life in Austin, the Bat City. Her next abode is now the Windy City, where she has accepted a prestigious job at the University of Chicago, an Ivy League. Let me take the story from the middle, as the…
April 29, 2025
The world came together on a warm April morning in Rome. Under Bernini’s wide colonnade, a simple wooden coffin lay, almost shy against the grand marble of St. Peter’s. It held the body of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis; it also carried a final message, passed without words. As I watched the…
April 28, 2025
Pope Francis had a great sense of humor. When I met him once at the back of the papal plane, I cracked a joke with him that was a little bit close to the line. Luckily, he roared with laughter and told me “Sei cattivo!” (“You’re naughty!”). Every day, he used to say, he prayed…
April 27, 2025
By Kevin Carmichael Scary thought, isn’t it? We have our strengths, but we’ve long had the fantastic luck of playing wing on a line centred by the global economy’s dominant player—the French and British empires at the start of our colonial history, and then the U.S. as European power receded. That was never a wise…
April 27, 2025
By Bolanle Bolawole [email protected] 0705 263 1058 “Waiting for an African Pope” by my brother, Azu Ishiekwene, made an interesting reading. Azu’s immense fecundity, as usual, his flawless prose, and free-flowing minting and weaving of words will always be a delight anyday. “Waiting for an African Pope” ended while I was still enjoying it! Did…
April 27, 2025
On December 13, 1972, Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, signed into law the Constitution (Amendment) Acts, numbers 3,4 and 5 ending the country’s First Republic and ushering in a new constitution for the country, which promised a “One-Party Participatory Democracy” under “one and only one party…., namely, the United National Independence Party (UNIP).” All of…
April 27, 2025
