Ike’s Column

In the 1980s when coups d’état were commonplace, once the rumour thickened, something would happen…either as a failed, successful or palace coup. All that military

Had he read this quote from Alistair Cooke, a British American journalist, Rev. Fr. Camillus Ejike Mbaka would have been circumspect about his “I saw

This week’s headline, let me start with a confession, is not entirely original. American journalist Michael Wolff’s book, ‘Fire and Fury inside Trump White House’,

After Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo finished and won the state’s gubernatorial battle in 2020, every other battle will be almost always surmountable, call it

Whenever you hear experts talk from both sides of the mouth on security issues, politics is tele-guiding the conversation. And politics and lying are not

To dine with the devil requires a long spoon, according to the wisdom of the ages. In Nigeria, the contrary is the case…salvation does not

Former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is easily one of the most consistent and improved politicians in this dispensation. Whether or not he

Heaven will not fall if by 2023 an Igbo candidate does not emerge as the Nigerian president. The earth, however, will bleed for a prolonged

The only reason we still expect great performance from President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is our voluptuous appetite for miracles.

“Better late than never” are some other words to console yourself that delay is not denial. That keeps hope alive, as we say in Nigeria.