Category: Features
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2023: Wike/Atiku bury hatchets, Wike camp review demands
Indications are rife that both PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike‘s camps are ready to give peace a chance in an effort to wrestle power from the ruling APC in next year’s election. To this end, TheNewsGuru has exclusively learnt that Governors and party leaders loyal to Wike may…
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TNG-ASUU series: It’s a matter of Law! – By Gbemiga Ogunleye
Sometime in May when the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, extended its three-month old strike by another three months, I weighed in on the matter, describing the move as unconscionable, considering the fact that the Union was “dealing with people who are either stone deaf or genuinely unreasonable.” Of course, my appeal to both…
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2023 CAMPAIGN OFFICIALLY KICK-OFF: Party Candidates’ eyes on the ball
2023 campaigns officially commenced on Tuesday with candidates formally turning their attention to how they can sell their candidature to the Nigerian voters as the elections draw near. From Governorship to the national and state assemblies, party flag bearers are already putting together strategies to convince the population to buy into their manifesto. Focus will…
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Travelogue: From Ekpoma to Benin with pain – By Okoh Aihe
I write this material with profound sense of pain, a hapless witness to a history of degeneration, and painful descent into a life of near worthlessness and hopelessness, a sustained devaluation of the 70s and 80s quality of living which has become a referenced nostalgia.
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ASUU strike: How are lecturers surviving? – By Promise Adiele
According to Chinua Achebe, “proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten”. Thus, Achebe underscores the importance of proverbs as an emblematic paradigm in spoken and written communicative strategies. Proverbs are powerful. They constitute vestiges of the fast receding African identity. There is no ethnic group in Africa that does not have proverbs…
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Is Life Really Unfair? – By Fr. Valentine Anaweokhai
In the face of crisis, misfortune, and calamity, people sometimes quip, ‘life is not fair’. The implication is that ‘life’ is to blame for whatever may have happened or befallen a person in life. ‘Life’ in this sense, is personified. However, to conclude that life is unfair, has both philosophical and theological connotations. Life, no…
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Kogi Assembly speaker booed in Gov’t House for suggesting Ebira man as Bello’s successor
There was a great stir at the Kogi State Government House, Lokoja, when political appointees and stakeholders of the ruling APC booed and shouted down the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Matthew Kolawole, berating him for calling on Governor Yahaya Bello to bring someone from his senatorial district to succeed him. The governor,…
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Macina kingdom in Yobe state where snakes share ancestry with humans, live happily
Many humans fear snakes as animals, but in Macina Emirate, an ancient kingdom in Yobe State, snakes share a ‘mythical’ ancestral lineage with the locals. This belief was traced back to the history where a queen in the kingdom gave birth to twins — a human and a snake. Shockingly, the snake twin would later…
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The Review of the book, “The Purpose”
The Title: Purpose means the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. It also means a person’s sense of resolve or determination. The title connotes there is a reason for every phase of life. If people fail to understand the reason, they cannot maximize or achieve the expected result.
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Africa and Climate Change – A Conversation with US Senator John Kerry towards COP27
As the world continues to experience the daily impact of global warming, whether the tragic recent flooding in Pakistan, or the less covered, but equally harmful, persistent environmental degradation of Africa’s Sahel region, leaders need to act, not just talk.