Cally Ikpe, Ph.D. Recently, former Deputy Senate President Senator Ovie Omo-Agege made headlines when he declared that anyone who attempts to rig the 2027 general elections in Delta State will die. As...
Ernest Osogbue. I’ll begin by commending the entire Arise morning show team, for raising the bar of political discourse in our country. I must confess that before Arise came on the scene, what w...
By Ernest Osogbue The promotion of 45 lecturers to professors by the University of Abuja sometime in April 2025 got me thinking about the state of our nation and how we can get things going. Nigerians...
By Ernest Osogbue Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu recently celebrated her 65th birthday, before then, however, she had made a video that went viral. I didn’t see the video, but follow-up events brought the ...
By Ernest Osogbue Many years ago, when I was still a music presenter on the radio, a friend of mine, by name Sadiq, produced a song titled “Naija na comedy.” In the song, he narrated some ...
By Ernest Osogbue It has become imperative for us as a people to sit down and consider the myriad of problems confronting our nation and start looking at new ways of solving them. According to an anal...
Ernest Osogbue I’m constrained by feedback received from my earlier piece of this same title to do a follow-up. Some who read the story were of the view that I shielded political leaders from re...
By Ernest Osogbue This piece is inspired by, and by extension, a response to Jide Ojo’s column in Punch Newspapers edition of Wednesday 18th June 2025. Jide’s piece titled ‘Nigerians...
Ernest Osogbue Over the years, Nigerians have complained about the political leadership in our country. They shout at whoever is the president, at governors, some times at legislators and ministers. T...
Ernest Osogbue On the very podium of his swearing-in on May 29th, 2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu unwittingly announced the direction of his government by a single phrase; “subsidy is gone.” That ...
