Category: Editor’s Pick
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2023: APC baits Jonathan for North’s 2027 calculus, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon While Southern politicians are scrambling for the presidency in 2023 – that’s all things being equal, and the position is zoned to the South – Northern politicians are planning for both 2023 and 2027. Northern politicians’ calculation is simple: If they can’t retain power after the eight-year tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari…
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Governor Akeredolu’s order & allied matters – Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha
About a week ago, in exercise of his rights as Chief Law and Security Officer of Ondo State, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu ordered herdsmen to vacate all ‘government reserves in the state within seven days’. Stating that the order was a reaction to the upsurge of criminal activities linked to some Fulani herdsmen in the state,…
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Late Sr Francisca Ufoeze (EHJ) and our Nigerian dream, By Stephen Ojapah MSP
Stephen Ojapah MSP Jesus said to them, “Amen, I say to you that you who have followed me, in the new age, when the Son of Man is seated on his throne of glory, will yourselves sit on twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or…
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Sunday Igboho: All you need to know about the man unsettling herdsmen’s stay in Yorubaland
The Nigerian social media is awash with the name ‘Sunday Igboho’, a supposed agitator for Oodua Republic who recently issued a seven day ultimatum to Fulanis to leave Yorubaland, contrary to the stance of his governor, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. Igboho, whose real name is Sunday Adeyemo became a top headline key word after…
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When silence is no longer golden, Valentine O. Anaweokhai
Valentine O. Anaweokhai There is a popular proverb that says: “speech is silver, but silence is golden”. I grew up to know about this proverb and I have found it to be helpful a couple of times. Especially when I am upset, and in critical moments, I applied this popular proverb, and it saved me…
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Professor Peter Ekeh: A Legacy of Postcolonial Thought, Social Theory and Cultural Diplomacy, By Samuel Akpobome Orovwuje
By Samuel Akpobome Orovwuje This article commemorates the life and times of Peter Ekeh, his pedagogical and intellectual legacy of postcolonial thought and political philosophy. An Urhobo diplomat-at–large, Professor Ekeh’s academic career began with his appointment at the University of Ibadan in 1974 as a lecturer then later to State University of New York,…
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The Trial of Bishop Kukah, By Sonnie Ekwowusi
By Sonnie Ekwowusi I had thought the media trial of Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Mathew Hassan Kukah over his 2020 Christmas Message had ended. But I was mistaken. The trial has not ended. The trial, for all you know, has just reached its crescendo. Last Wednesday the Buhari Presidency joined the hordes of accusers…
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PTF: Another Lockdown? Never!, By Michael West
It appears this government may likely be the undertaker of deeply polarised, highly ethnicised and economically impoverished country called Nigeria. The misgovernance of this clueless, visionless and inept leadership should be called to order before they destroy the feeble fabrics of pseudo-unity that keeps Nigeria trudging on the path of nationhood. How can the…
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Time to bring closure to the Digital Switchover process, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe While trying to take some dispassionate look at the broadcast industry last weekend, my mind kept returning to the village, to the hilarious but affectionate story of one old man whose wife was very sickly. At every opportunity the old man would inform humorously that the wife had been attended to…
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EFCC: Playing rogue with the innocent, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. OLADUNNI Emmanuel Segun is an inspirational youth popularly called “Che” in the Nigerian Civil and Labour Movement because he strives to live the exemplary life of commitment, selflessness and sacrifice of legendary Ernesto Che Guevera. A pan-Africanist and internationalist who has represented Nigerian youths in Africa and Latin America. Segun…