The search for solutions to the numerous ills plaguing the Nigerian state is on with sundry associations and groups struggling to outdo one another in a bid to be heard. For some, politics is the reason for the unusual assemblage…
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BOLA TINUBU: THE CORRUPT MINI DEITY OF LAGOS -CHURCHILL OKONKWO
When the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cautioned Chief Ahmed Bola Tinubu to “stop playing god”, they completely mischaracterized his true identity. Bola Tinubu was not playing god. He is a god, a deity of corruption, and menacing ideas filled with deplorable wisdom…
DELE GIWA: RESTLESS BE THY SOUL! – SOC OKENWA
Journalism is a dangerous profession especially in the third world nations where journalists are generally seen as ‘enemies’ of the state. And in Nigeria the pen-pushing profession has its dangers as well as its glory. Many professional journalists had made…
MELAYE, SENATE AND POLICE BROUHAHA
The Nigeria Police Force deserved some condemnations over the drama with Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi West senatorial district on the platform of All Progressives Congress in the Senate. The police strangely arraigned the lawmaker in the magistrate court right…
BEFORE BENUE CONSUMES US ALL
Benue State has not known peace since January this year due to incessant killings mostly blamed on herdsmen. Just when we thought the worst was behind us, a heinous, evil and very vile attack was unleashed on another Benue community…
FG, DON’T BREED ANOTHER BOKO HARAM
Clashes between members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and the Nigeria Police got out of hand in Abuja on Monday April 16, 2018. Tear gas, hot water cannons and allegedly some live bullets were fired, many people including…
BUHARI’S CONFUSING AND DANGEROUS RHETORIC ON HERDSMEN – MOSES E. OCHONU
It makes one dizzy trying to keep up with President Buhari’s shifting, contradictory rhetoric on herdsmen killings. He has alternated between outright denial of herdsmen’s AK-47 possession and suggesting that there could be a new, deadly group of herdsmen, a…
KOGI AND THE END OF POLITICS – LOUIS ODION
It is quite hard to reconcile the plague currently engulfing Kogi’s political space and the memory that the province is also the cradle of the great Sunday Awoniyi. Or the colossal Silas Daniyan. Before he drew his last breath in…
APC CHAIR: BETWEEN OYEGUN AND OSHIOMHOLE
The All Progressives Congress (APC) swept off the then ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from political power in the aftermath of the 2015 general elections. The new ruling party raised so much hope and expectations, that Nigerians were elated and literarily…
CRIMINALIZING ESTIMATED BILLING
The House of Representatives’ bold initiative to criminalize estimated billing, a fraudulent practice deliberately employed by unconscionable power distribution companies to fleece their customers, is a welcome intervention. Doubtlessly, in the absence of strong regulation, the power companies need the…