Ikeogu Oke Last week, a certain friend, a northerner, mentioned to me that some djinns had – or have – been dangling on an imaginary pendulum swinging across our political landscape. To our interlocutor, who […]
Tunde Odesola; (tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) This one might have a certificate. They call him the Evil Genius. He’s not a hunchback but he carries the burden of guilt, like Cain, everywhere he goes. He didn’t kill his […]
The PUNCH reported last week that the “Central Bank of Nigeria has injected over $10.97bn into the forex market between January and October this year, to defend the nation’s currency, the naira, against other major […]
Samson Folarin Twenty-six-year-old Benjamin had prepared himself and spent five days fasting and praying to secure a student visa at the United States’ embassy. His widowed mother had spent her savings to pay all the […]
Patients around the world are suffering pain and many have died as a result of faulty medical devices that have been allowed on to the market by a system dogged by poor regulation, lax rules […]
LAST week’s “What is Adebayo Shittu still doing in government?” irked and jolted the Minister of Communications in the APC/Muhammadu Buhari administration. Having admitted that he did not observe the mandatory one-year national service administered […]
Having listened to the first radio broadcast by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and read the transcript of the his second broadcast on November 17, certain matters arising from the said […]
Ikeogu Oke, award-winning Nigerian poet, is dead. TheCable learned that Oke died on Saturday in Abuja. Until his death, he was receiving treatment at the National Hospital, FCT, for a yet to be ascertained ailment. […]
Sometime in year 2000, being his next of kin, I received a scraggly letter by post from the Nigerian Army that my younger brother Bankole, then of the Sokoto Battalion, had been killed in the […]
As the industrial action embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) enters its fourth week, the union has vowed not to return to class until its demands are met. This was disclosed […]
The Presidential Candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has lamented the killings of soldiers by suspected Boko Haram terrorists, saying that such does not speak well of the country’s […]
Succour has come the way of the oil and gas industry as its efforts at communicating issues to stakeholders has received a boost after a lingo compendium was reintroduced to the public with reinvigorated and […]
Boko Haram and ISWA may have won this battle, we must win the war! While the actual number of soldiers and locals killed in last week’s surprise attack on the 157 Task Force Battalion at […]
Wealth for an unbeliever is not a blessing but a curse. Paul warns that the love of money is dangerous: “Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many […]
The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday, said he was done with the conferment of honorary degrees on him. He said this, while receiving the Doctor of Letters honours, at the convocation ceremony of the […]
If you want to know how much of a rabble-rouser a typical pious Nigerian is, just broach a conversation on religion. In the last eighteen years of electoral democracy practice in Nigeria, nothing has threatened […]
Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos, in this interview, speaks on the state of the nation among other issues. Excerpts: How did you emerge as the Oba of Lagos? Any genuine prince from the day he […]
South- South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, took a swipe at the Presidency, saying that when the time comes for the people of the South-East to produce the President of the country, nobody can stop […]
The first China International Import Expo (CIIE) ended in Shanghai on Nov.10, 2018. Under the theme of “New Era, Shared Future”, the CIIE had attracted 172 countries, regions and international organisations, more than 3,600 companies […]
Alhaji Abubakar Atiku is undoubtedly Nigeria’s most experienced politician alive. Not Obasanjo. Not Buhari. Not Jonathan. Atiku’s political experience was forged in the hurly burly of the endless transition programme that Nigeria’s foremost soldier of […]
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