Category: Editor’s Pick
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2023: Umahi’s defection of rancour, recrimination -Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon The boxing bout hasn’t started and yet, a blow has landed on the nose. This is an Esan proverb that depicts the mud-fight between Governor Dave Umahi and political leaders in Ebonyi State. It’s barely three weeks that Umahi defected from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress…
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Living in their children’s shadow? – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido The first time I saw it on social media, I recoiled. A young writer was describing the great Chief Femi Falana and all he could say was Falana is the father of Falz. Chief Falana is, of course, the father of Falz (Folarin Falana), but before Falz became a sensation, there was…
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Africa-China in a journey of a score years -Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. China and all, but two of the 55 African countries, were enslaved by European colonialists who looted them and carried out unspeakable atrocities including the massacre of millions. Even after independence, they were subjected to control by their former slave masters who taught them that they could develop only based on a…
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Gbolabo Ogunsanwo: Exit of a legend – Abdu Rafiu
By Abdu Rafiu The sun set on the bright life of one of Nigeria’s foremost journalists. Death by its nature hardly gives anyone notice. In the age of technological wonders, in the era of permutation by doctors, predictions by stargazers after consultation with their crystal balls; in the age of artificial intelligence, death still manages…
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Exit of a legend
By Abdu Rafiu The sun set on the bright life of one of Nigeria’s foremost journalists. Death by its nature hardly gives anyone notice. In the age of technological wonders, in the era of permutation by doctors, predictions by stargazers after consultation with their crystal balls; in the age of artificial intelligence, death still manages…
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Tope Alabi saga: A lesson for fathers-at-large – Micael West
By Michael West Parenting is all about commitment and responsibility. It is rewarding if dutifully done and could be devastating and regretful later in life if neglected, taken for granted or denied. Some fathers and mothers are guilty of dereliction of parental duties over their children. It is much higher on the side of dads…
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Message from the dead Borno farmers – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene That the slain Borno farmers did not get military clearance is an inconvenient truth, but the real error of judgement was taking the government at its word. In his inaugural speech on May 29, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the military chiefs – the same military chiefs there today – to relocate to…
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Nigeria: Where the dead left no one to bury them, because there is no leader – Godwin Etakibuebu
By Godwin Etakibuebu The latest in the continuously running game of massacre in Nigeria took place in the rice-farming-town of Zabarmari Village, located in the greater Maiduguri area of Jere Local Government, Borno State, North-East Nigeria, on Saturday, November 28, 2020. The town is based downstream of the River Alau Dam along the River Yedzeram;…
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Why adults sexually abuse minors – Ozioma Onyenweaku
Ozioma Onyenweaku Today I have decided to address here this question which many people have always asked me. Each and every forum I discuss the protection of children from sexual abuse, this question often pops out: why would a full-fledge adult choose to sexually abuse an under-age child when there are a lot of fellow…
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Reasons for the jostle for presidency by lgbos in a prickly Nigerian partnership – Magnus Onyibe
. By Magnus onyibe The fear of dominance by one ethnic group over another in the Nigerian union has been with us since Lord Frederick Luggard, the representative of the British colonialist, amalgamated the southern and northern protectorates of the British Empire into one entity called Nigeria in 1914, with him as the Governor General.…