Full text of my article published in the back page of Thisday Newspapers today Friday 23 January 2026 Honours, Memory, and Those Yet to Be Honoured When President Bola Tinubu announced the Democracy Day honours list in 2025, many Nigerians, myself included, assumed that evident […]

By Law Mefor A few days ago, Ndigbo came under fire from Professor Usman Yusuf, the former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), for their perceived lack of interest in the ongoing nationally spreading hunger protests and strikes. He said: “I honestly […]

Former Spokesman of President Bola Tinubu in the South East, Dr. Josef Onoh has stated that the region has restrained itself from the isolated hardship protests across the country because Nigeria has refused to accord the South East its due status as an integral part […]

The gentleman sitting to the right of Lord Frederick Lugard in this picture (see above) is Obed-Edom Chukwuemeka Azikiwe.He was the father of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the last Governor-General and first president of Nigeria. Obed-Edom Azikiwe was a very influential member of Lugard’s administration. You […]

The first Miss Nigeria beauty pageant winner, Grace Oyelude, was honored on her 93rd birthday, as announced by the Miss Nigeria Organisation in an Instagram post on Thursday, November 16th. Grace Oyelude’s journey to becoming the first Miss Nigeria is a story that transcends time. […]

_The Strategist 30.08.23_ These days when I hear that popular chant around churches that “the devil and his agents” have planned this or planned that, I find myself wondering why devil and his cronies are not directing their evil at the west (Europe, North America, […]

By Michael Iheonukara Okpara Address at the Convocation, University of Nigeria, Nsukka by Dr. M.I. Okpara, Premier of Eastern Nigeria December 17th, 1962. INTRODUCTION:Since assuming the Premiership of Eastern Nigeria in December, 1959, Dr Michael Iheonukara Okpara, 42, has devoted his whole attention and energy […]

By Law Mefor The first time I visited Israel was in 1994 on a Christian pilgrimage. It served as a spiritual homecoming for my visiting group. To prove that the Bible is authentic and alive today, rather than just being historical or speculative, we visited […]

BY: GODKNOWS BOLADEI IGALI The date, May 27th, 1967 will always remain a landmark in the annals of Nigeria’s history for a number of reasons. First, on that date, the country’s third Head of State and second military ruler, then Col. Yakubu Gowon took the […]

Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), M.S. in Educ. 1943, M.A. 1944, was born in Africa’s Gold Coast (now Ghana). As a young man, he was a school teacher before leaving his homeland to further his education in American universities. He later traveled to England where he worked […]