Periscope

Behold, your senator, Chris Uba

When the Supreme Court on Friday, January 29 announced Chris Uba as the rightful candidate of the PDP for Anambra South and effectively ended the senatorial era of his urbane elder brother, Andy, Cassandra Clare quickly came to mind.

Clare, author of the urban fantasy series, had aptly posited [...]

Earl Osaro bells the cat

It was a matter of time before the eternal question in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, ‘to be or not to be’ is answered concerning where the pendulum of Earl Osaro Onaiwu was swinging to.

The fashion impresario and for nearly a decade, chaperone to governors in Nigeria had become a subj [...]

Yerima’s Sharia comeuppance

Umberto Eco in his riveting book, The Prague Cemetery, argues that “People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”

This is so true of the many atrocities that have happened through the centuries across the world, including Nig [...]

Bisi Akande: When elders become errant

Elders are generally seen as repository of wisdom, decency and guided in speech. But when these time-honoured virtues are lacking for pecuniary or some other consideration, then society stands the risk of falling apart.

Recently, Chief Bisi Akande, a former governor and chieftain of the ruling [...]

Badeh, now the Epiphany

Immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh may have come to his epiphany that times changes all things.

Badeh and 14 other military chiefs are under the radar of the EFCC and the way things are, the noose gets tighter by the day.

Last week, his homes were sealed [...]

For Tompolo, a familiar terrain

The storm is gathering once again in the oil-rich Niger Delta and in the thick of it is ex-militant chief, Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo, pitted against the federal government.

Tompolo has been having a ding-dong affair with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegatio [...]

Oh, Yeye Bola, oh!

Sarah Dessen in her book, The Truth About Forever, fittingly wrote; “That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it’s reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.& [...]

Davido’s assault on decency

Success has a way of making a mockery of the best, especially, one that comes through entertainment with all its allurement of ‘enjoyment.’

The custody mess between David Adeleke aka Davido and his baby mama, Sophia Momodu over their daughter, Imade, exemplifies the zenith of the mo [...]