Hate speech: The rape of democracy
Promise Adiele ENGLISH poet, Alexander Pope, needs no introduction to members of the global literary fraternity, those inexorably committed to the sensuous business of creativity. But for the benefit...
View ArticleThe Kingdoms of Kogi and Bayelsa suffered violence
Oludayo Tade DESPITE the huge investment into securing democracy and ensuring that the electorates are able to speak with their votes freely and fairly without fear, threat or intimidation, the...
View ArticleThe war against graft and gale of irregular recruitments
Ladesope Ladelokun It is no fairy tale that when President Muhammadu Buhari conquered Nigeria’s highest office in the 2015 presidential election after three unsuccessful attempts, hope was birthed...
View ArticleOyo on my mind
Abiodun Raufu The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on November 11, 2019, delivered an ambiguous judgment that has got both the complainant and the defendant claiming victory regarding the March 9,...
View Article2023: Ndi Igbo and the Nigerian presidency
Ekpa Stanley Ekpa The origin of rotational leadership and management of political institutions predates democracy, as a social system for inclusion and stability in any heterogeneous political...
View Article14-year old Queens College girl, mother on my mind
By the time you are reading this piece, you probably would have watched different video clips of the mother of a 14- year old Senior Secondary (SS) three student of Queens College, Yaba, Lagos...
View ArticleAhiajoku: The symbol of Igbo cultural ideal
It is not in doubt that Governor Emeka Ihedioha is living up to his promise to holistically improve governance culture in Imo State. Besides his initiatives to revive the economy of the state, his...
View ArticleAFSA, agroecology and climate change
Judith Ufford When 196 countries negotiated the Paris Agreement with a commitment to take steps to limit the increase in global average temperature this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius or 1.5...
View ArticleMaduka: Garlands for a silent philanthropist
Obinna Okafor In a highly materialistic society like ours, the urge to keep acquiring wealth is over-powering to many. In our ignorance, we think being rated the richest or among the richest makes...
View ArticleBorder closure and ‘fx43’: A strategic combination
Arize Nwobu The dual policies of border closure and the earlier exclusion of 43 items (FX43) from the Interbank foreign exchange market by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are a strategic combination...
View ArticleEconomics, NIM lecture and disruptive change
Victor C. Ariole The dilemma of Africa… is the incidence of a “premature dis-industrialisation where the path of growth which run from agriculture to industry then to service and ultimately to...
View ArticleCustoms CG’s stance on border closure
Last week, the Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (retd), declared that there was no going back on the closure of Nigeria’s porous borders. His words: “The...
View ArticleMothering a murderous bill
Banji Ojewale When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers–Oscar Wilde(1854-1900) Irish writer. In Nineteen Eighty Four when we all stood in awe of Decree Four, to differ with the...
View ArticleThe tragedy of social media ‘regulation’
Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku From a recent study which we have carried out at the Civil Empowerment & Rule of Law Support Initiative, CERLSI, we have found out that there are about 160 social media...
View ArticleBefore the introduction of electronic voting
INWALOMHE DONALD Nigeria needs law on data sovereignty before we adopts electronic voting. Nigeria needs law on data sovereignty for our election tribunal, court of appeal and Supreme Court before we...
View ArticleWike, beware: APC machine is coming
History teaches that politicians should, of a necessity, take the lessons of the last election as a guide for the next one. Reason: There’s always lessons to learn from failure and the misfortunes of...
View Article2019 Ahiajoku lecture: Covering the lost grounds
Ethelbert Okere Fourty years ago, 1979 to be precise, the government of Imo state, then presided over by the late Sam Mbakwe, came up with the idea of an annual Ahiajoku lecture. Underlying that idea...
View ArticleThe excitements of the ember months and Christmas
LIVINUS UKAH Only God knows why these months are unique, peculiar, particularistic and “one kind”. Even though the other eight months do not have same characteristics with the Ember months but there...
View ArticleOn military’s housing deficits
Emmanuel Onwubiko For over two years now, I have gotten used to always supporting the military veterans who usually celebrate their remembrance day I think some time every January or so. There is this...
View ArticleNDDC: Not all about Senator Akpabio
ETIM ETIM THE forensic audit of the NDDC ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari last month has provoked interest groups to launch more attacks on Senator Godswill Akpabio, the agency’s supervising...
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