Category: Editor’s Pick
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For broadcasting, a meeting long awaited – Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe I know the fire in broadcasting – pictures and sound, like wind, the impact can be instantaneous and spread very rapidly. The landfall, if you want to describe it that way, can be extensively devastating in the extreme but can also be wholesome and redeeming. But it is the danger in broadcasting…
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A Nigeria Police farce and ‘Olimpotic’ politics – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. I find it difficult to believe that Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State is a professor; the don does not adorn this toga. There is no aura of professorship around him, and to worsen matters, he speaks so simple English that even commoners can understand him. This is why Governor Benedict…
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Comfort my People in Zabarmari – Stephen Ojapah
Stephen Ojapah MSP Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. (Isaiah 40:1-2). The book of Isaiah is centered on the Babylonian exile, …
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Farming ends in Borno; National famine begins in ernest – Dele Sobowale
By Dele Sobowale “Over 100 confirmed dead…. The news report brought back memories of my years in Haske Rice Mills, along Kalambina Road, Sokoto, next to Sokoto Cement then. We purchased paddy rice from all over – including Borno State. Most of the farmers, like others at the Bakolori Dam area in Zamfara and Yelwa…
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In defence of Garba Shehu – Hope Eghagha
By Hope Eghagha I was miffed to no end last week when Nigerians took unnecessary umbrage at the exotic, fiercely loyal presidential spokesman, the sardonically inimitable and infinitely loquacious Mallam Garba Shehu over statements he made about the Boko-Haram-slaughtered farmers of Zabarmari Borno State, to the effect that the farmers ought to have obtained clearance…
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Okowa regime cannot bury Urhobo with 34 wards – Efe Duku
By Efe Duku The last delineation of Electoral Wards in Delta State was carried out by the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC) in 2006 under the leadership of its pioneer Chairman, Honourable Justice James Omo-Agege of blessed memory. Chief James Onanefe Ibori was then the Governor of Delta State. Using population as a universally…
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Attack on Ebonyi elite: Last phase of Umahi’s political hegemony
By Engr Osita Kalu Ugoji Well, this article is not intended to lampoon His Excellency, the incumbent Governor of Ebonyi State, notwithstanding, it will let your ‘Yours sincerely’ know that victims of his media opprobrium are Their Excellencies in differing domineering capacities. The unwarranted media attack has however, spurred outright pother and uproar among professionals.…
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Harvest of Terror and Excuses – Chidi Amuta
Chidi Amut In a nation besieged on all sides by frightening insecurity and a frenzy of violent convulsions, diverse merchants of violence seem to be in a contest of supremacy. Boko Haram seems insistent on occupying the front row. With over a decade of expertise in hands-on terrorism, this untidy army of fanatical zealots has…
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Pray for Buhari to last until 2023 – Dele Sobowale
Dele Sobowale PRAY FOR BUHARI TO LAST UNTIL 2023. “The graveyards are full of indispensable men.” President (General) Charles De Gaulle, 1890-1970. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ p 102. The late French leader shares some things in common with our President Buhari. They were both soldiers before becoming Heads of State. The two led…
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Witchcraft in the church – Femi Aribisala
By Femi Aribisala In a video that went viral on social media, a bishop is ostensibly conducting deliverance on a group of teenage girls alleged to be witches. The girls kneel submissively in front of his holiness, the bishop. However, to his annoyance, one of them has the audacity to contradict him. The girl says…