A Yoruba adage says, eni awosunkun to so ara e di aworerin (literally meaning, someone who causes sorrow but pretentiously referring to him/herself as source of joy). This is Nigeria among the comity of […]
Emotions, very strong ones at that, has dominated public reaction to the 20 per cent hike in subscription rates of various bouquets announced by MultiChoice, the country’s leading pay-TV provider. To say I was […]
Just what was Hillary Clinton thinking when she avoided using the government email account system and instead adopted a private one during her tenure as secretary of state? We’re now being told by a slew […]
Transformation Agenda. That is the favourite buzz phrase of the Goodluck Jonathan administration. His ardent supporters want President Jonathan to continue in office for another four years so he can complete his revolutionary and historic […]
Sometime, you wonder if Nigeria is not already at war with itself over the likely outcome of the 2015 general elections. It is not just about the hate speeches and denigrating documentaries that pervade […]
At an early stage in life, Samuel Owem Wilson, owner of Twinnas Barbing Salon, chose the part of business to secure his future and make his way to the top. Wilson relives his journey with […]
In societies with established system of values there is usually the principle of collective responsibility, which demands that you do not openly criticize the government that you are part of. On that basis, Agwai might […]
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Verily All praise is due to Allah; we praise Him, we seek His help, and we seek His forgiveness. And we seek refuge in […]
Corruption has been the bane of Nigeria’s political firmament even before the multi-ethnic state was granted independence by Great Britain in 1960. Foremost nationalist, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe as the then Premier of the Eastern Region […]
The eternal words of William Shakespeare ring true that the world is a mere stage where mortals are players who have an entry and exit route. The battle of life always has something at the […]
I have always argued, in all the occasions of discourse of ethnic national literature, that it is rather reductionist to contextualize and define Abubakar Gimba’s literary output mainly within the ambit of its northernism. Some […]
My favourite Shakespearean play is Macbeth. It is one of the darkest works of the renowned playwright. The premise is simple. Vaunting ambition leads to crime, followed by inevitable fall. Macbeth is a kinsman and […]
Akin Osuntokun’s “Buhari: Which South-west”, which appeared on this page the other week, threw up an interesting perspective on the real issues facing the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-west, with its fielding of […]
It has always been said that President Goodluck Jonathan is the most abused Nigerian president. This definitely is not in dispute. Apart from being called clueless and incompetent, he has always been the butt of […]
An astonishing piece of news from Cote d’Ivoire on Tuesday is presumably getting the whole of Africa to talk. Simone, wife of the former president of this intriguing West African country was sentenced to a […]
I have not seen the card reader, the newly acclaimed anti-rigging technology in the country. At least, that is the position of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega. Nobody is […]
Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye, a public affairs analyst, in this piece, used the theory of historical materialism as espoused by Karl Marx to establish that there is a seeming complacency among the Nigerian youths who have […]
The meeting by the governors under the umbrella of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos may have come and gone but the dust generated by the issues raised may take a while to […]
IT is now stale news that Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro is now an “Honorable” Minister. Two weeks ago, I speculated that knowing the ruling party and its undistinguished senators, Obanikoro’s confirmation as a minister was a […]
Picture a severely skewed news story bearing the newspaper Daily Editor’s byline and the curious tag: “With political intelligence unit reports.” Picture how ridiculous it must be to witness the metamorphosis of presumed intellect into […]
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