PETER OBI AND HIS ENEMIES
Peter Obi's enemies are very clever and audacious. They are determined to ruin him and the promise of his movement. Imagine, they appointed for him a certain Mr. John Ezeigbe Ughulu as his campaign...
RE: APC JUST GIFTED PDP AKS ON ACCOUNT OF AKPABIO
Akwa Ibom Democratic Forum (ADF) is once again worried over the obvious degeneration that has assailed a once celebrated columnist, Mr. Dele Sobowale, having noticed the same disturbing trend in 2018 when he struggled,...
Nigeria @62: Towards Gender Equality In Politics
Over the years, women have clamoured for political space because men dominate both elective and appointed positions in Nigeria. From the pre-independence era, Nigerian women have played active part in politics. The action of Aba women...
THE IGBO AND DEATH OF A QUEEN
On Tuesday, September 6, Liz Truss met Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral, Scotland. We saw her with the queen in a warm handshake as she became Britain's historic third female head of government. The world...
Olúségun Obásanjó’s Pounded Yam
Olúségun Obásanjó's mother told him at the very beginning that if pounded yam is not much, it must be made hard and tough (iyán tí kò pò, ó gbodò yi). Read his biographies. Ashabi...
WHY ASUU SHOWDOWN WITH GOVERNMENT IS JUSTIFIED
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has gone for broke with its declaration of indefinite strike, ending its roll-over strategy since its February 14, 2022 call out of lecturers in public universities. The union...
OPINION: AWAKENING THE GIANT OF AFRICA—THE CLARION CALL
“Where there is love, there is neither prejudice nor war nor strive nor pains nor any evil at all. Love engenders peace and justice; and makes the bond between persons, groups and nations strong....
BEFORE THEY KIDNAP OUR PRESIDENT
Singer and songwriter, Bukola Elemide, is better known as Asa. She was paid by the Nigerian state to perform on Tuesday last week in Abuja at the launch of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company...
HOW NIGERIA TURBANS ITS TERRORISTS, THE ADA ALERU
At a time when Nigeria thought it had witnessed the zenith of pain and agony from its unhealed wounds, with the unimaginable pus that oozes daily from them over the years, last week, a...
IS ANYTHING SACRED IN NIGERIA ANYMORE?
“There was a time when you could leave your church, temple, or mosque open, and nobody would dare go in and do anything. The people knew these were sacred spaces.” Recently, the word sacred was...
THE NATIONAL CONVERSATION
PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF
THE NATIONAL CONVERSATION: INTERESTS AND INTRIGUES THAT SHAPED THE 2014 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
About eight years after the 2014 National Conference a thought came, that some of the issues that characterised the Conference,...
AS DOLLARS ELECTED, CREATED MANNEQUINS AT PARTY PRIMARIES
While touring Northern Nigerian provinces in the 1950s to canvass for votes, Ahmadu Bello, the great-great grandson of Uthman dan Fodio and Premier of the Northern region, used to have his flowing robes stuffed...
THE FALLACY OF FIGHTING FOR GOD
1. Nigeria is a very religious nation where citizens are so ‘committed’ to God that they are eager and quick to kill in his name and for him as we saw on Thursday 12th...
