State of Mind

A lot of Nigerians do not know that Nigeria is a secular state and they are also not aware that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria does not require that Buhari take his oath of office by swearing with the Quran. The drafters of the constitution made it ...

My dear Mohammadu Buhari, may I join the millions of Nigerians in congratulating you for winning the 2015 Nigerian election to become the president. We all look forward to your stewardship of the Nigerian ship of state during the next four years, and, hopefully, during the next eight years. However, ...

Aliko Dangote recently expressed his renewed interest in buying English Premiership club Arsenal after losing out on his initial bid in 2010. However Ruby Igwe, the daughter of late prolific filmmaker, Amaka Igwe, believes the billionaire is putting his money in the wrong place. Ruby has written an open letter ...

Ladies and gentlemen, you are welcome to the new game in town. For better or for worse, our music ‘industry’ is embracing a new form of art. The focus has shifted almost entirely from making music to something else. Now the transition is finally complete and the sync word here ...

I was told that every Igboman who heard Ojukwu’s speech after the Biafran war was filled with a renewed sense of pride and hope. A hope that one day the Igbo nation will rise and become a force of reckoning not just in Nigeria but in the entire black world. ...

President-elect Gen. Buhari in an opinion article published on New York Times yesterday April 14th, wrote on how his administration will tackle the terror group, Boko Haram. Read below… When Boko Haram attacked a school in the town of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, kidnapping more than 200 girls, on the ...

On April 6, 2015, I issued a brief statement after a press parley during the Easter break. The statement contained a very bold prediction on the outcome of the April 11, 2015 gubernatorial and state assembly elections in Lagos State. As you may rightly now know, that which I predicted ...

The Igbos are the wandering Jews of West Africa.. gifted, aggressive, Westernised; at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by the mass of their neighbors in the federation – Henry Kessinger (famous American diplomat) Back in the days, men made fortune out of war, war was business. But today, ...

Shade Ladipo is an On-Air-Personality and TV producer. Read what she wrote about Burna Boy below.. If you had asked me 6 weeks ago which Artiste I was going to write on, it would have been about how bad a performer Naeto C is and why he should give up ...

My current political body language is ‘Anti – Status quo’. That has led to so many of my friends and colleagues asking if I’m for the opposition viz General Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC). My reply has always been the same; “I’M FOR CHANGE”. I’m for whoever ...

Harold Lasswell (1936) defines politics as “Who Gets What, When, and How”. Those in political power decide who gets what from their particular human polity. In democratic countries, elections decide who gets to be in power and thus decide who gets what from their particular human polity. There will be ...

If you pay attention to the current electioneering in Nigeria (March, 2015) and listen to the two main political parties, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressive Congress, APC you would notice that neither party has stated its agenda; neither has told Nigerians what it wants to do ...

Once again, Nollywood and President Jonathan are disconnected from the priorities of Nigerians. Millions are hungry and the country is headed off a cliff and what we get is the President having weekly dinner with celebs at Eko Hotel. Mr. President should know that all entertainers in the country won’t ...

I have decided to lend my voice to the call for sanctions against Dstv in Nigeria, despite the fact that I have been cautioned by a couple of entertainers that speaking up against the almighty cable network may result in the banning of my works on its network. Yes, it ...

We all know D’banj‘s fame and influence has dropped since his famous exit from Mo’hits and he lost fans and became the target of critics. Here is an open letter to D’banj from a fan, its funny but I can’t say if I agree or not. Enjoy!! I thought we ...

We all know Charles Novia writes reviews of major entertainment events that take place in the country, as usual this one is witty, funny and well written…. Enjoy!! At 21:52 pm CAT, when IK Osakioduwa and Vimbai, hosts of the 2015 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards, had signed off from ...

For Nigeria’s military, times have never been this challenging. Plagued on the one hand by the fiendish activities of some twisted minds that have taken over a vast cut of the country’s northeast region, it is on the other assailed first by the charge of corruption against its leadership by ...

In my opinion, Democracy is the worst form of government; Winston Churchill agrees with my assessment but said that the problem is that the alternatives to it are worse! Every five years, or so elections are held and the people’s votes are tabulated. Assuming that the elections were held in ...

And all liars shall go to hell – Rev 21:8. Again, I’m going to go out on a limb here to talk on a subject that may not be very popular or nice to Nigerian celebs, especially the guilty ones. I have said it severally that just because someone is ...

Dr. Wunmi Akintide’s article, “Awolowo the most accomplished Yoruba leader; Akintola the first Yoruba politician to envisage Hausas/Fulani/Yoruba collaboration” momentarily rained on my parade for the election of Buhari as the president of Nigeria. I had joined the parade to get Buhari elected president solely because of his antecedent behaviours; ...