South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was heckled during the recent funeral service of Zimbabwe’s erstwhile leader Robert Mugabe. It was easy to guess why. When he stood to speak, Ramaphosa apologised for weeks of violence […]
FROM sluggish growth, falling reserves and mounting debts to unmet revenue targets, capital flight and a jobless army of youths, the economy continues to confound President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. News of a deceleration in Gross […]
In the wake of the latest dastardly xenophobic attacks in South Africa, the first batch of Nigerian evacuees arrived Lagos on September 11, 2019, That is, a week or so after native South Africans burnt […]
What is patriotism? The definition should be fairly straightforward: loving your country. One of my favourite all-time tunes is the 1988 song, “Nation and the People”, by The Mandators, with the refrain: “Love your country/Your […]
FORMER Governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, weekend, said that the elderly people in South East may embrace the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB if the other parts of Nigeria conspire and […]
The first part of this series ended abruptly last week on account of space constraints. Pardon me if the last paragraph is repeated fully. Otherwise what follows might not make sense. FIRST, the farm workers […]
Dear Puluma, I actually called you by your local nickname to register an impression. A reminder of some sort. More like telling you it’s from one of your followers, one who must have shared some […]
Mohamed Rachid Rida, a Syrian Arab reformator said, “To revolt on behalf of an ignorant people, is like to set yourself on fire in order to light the way for a blind man!” When Mohamed […]
Stakeholders in the economy have expressed worry about the disparity between huge government earnings and growing poverty in the country. This followed the report by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) showing that N28.58 […]
charges against Omoyele Sowore by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration dead on arrival. Ozekhome, who spoke on ChannelsTV, joined other well-meaning Nigerians to ask the Nigerian government to drop charges against Sowore and release him […]
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; for they ne’er pardon who have done the wrong.” John Dryden, 1631-1700. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS. The first part of this two-part series ended rather abruptly. But, I hope […]
Senior Pastor and founder, Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare is in the news again, as he said he will replace President Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s president in 2023. Bakare, during his ministration said nothing […]
Again, the paternity of the Nigerian state came up for consideration last week. Who exactly owns Nigeria? Is it the exclusive preserve of politicians, their kith and kin, their hangers-on or Nigerians? Put differently, because […]
President Buhari shares paternity with Paul Biya of Cameroon in leadership style. Both men are joined by the umbilicus of repression and abrasion. In 2010, Bertrand Teyou, an author, was sentenced to two years imprisonment […]
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last general election, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, really means business to overturn the verdict of the Presidential Elections Petitions Tribunal, PEPT, that confirmed President […]
Austin Braimoh, a commissioner of the police service commission (PSC), has accused the Nigeria police force (NPF) of padding the recruitment list of 10,000 constables with unqualified candidates. The PSC had placed the recruitment of […]
We are often told that life is so stern that it hardly gives anyone a second chance at doing the same thing over again. But how do you explain the fact that Buhari is presently […]
Federal universities in other parts of the country have, to varying degrees, similarly recalibrated to become extensions of their immediate sociocultural environments, resulting in intellectual and academic inbreeding and in incestuously insular intellectual reinforcement. Conversely, […]
One thing we cannot run away from is that there is a gathering storm, primarily fueled by bad governance and lack of accountability. It is also appalling that students, despite the enormity of powers at […]
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka said the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has attained an unprecedented level of paranoia for charging activist, Omoyele Sowore with treason. Sowore was arrested for planning to stage a revolutionary […]
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