Biafra: What went wrong?
By Aloy Ejimakor THIS piece is intended as a brief excursion into recent history to determine how the post-Civil War Biafran idea came into being; the major characters who translated the idea into an...
View ArticleMid-level corruption in MDAs
By Evaristus Bassey With the Gestapo-like invasion of Judges’ residences, including Supreme Court justices, perhaps a modicum of fear would run through highly placed public office holders. For indeed...
View ArticleNow that Trump has triumphed
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Last year, it was hurricane Buhari in the Nigerian national elections. This time around it is hurricane Trump in the United States. Against all odds, Mr. Donald Trump has bulldozed...
View ArticleBetween Buhari and Jonathan
I have a strong conviction that President Muhammadu Buhari is overwhelmed by the challenges he met on assumption of office and the novelty of fresh missteps by his administration. The country is just...
View ArticleLessons from the US election
By Paul John It is unarguably that Americans cannot easily forget two memorable dates(11/9 and 9/11) in their national lives. 11/9 is the date in 2001 when the late Osama Bin Laden launched one of the...
View ArticleINEC, conflicting court orders and 2019
By EZE E. UKACHUKWU While the Bench and the Bar may be utterly embarrassed by the critical opprobrium generated by the spate of unsettling orders on ex parte applications as well as conflicting...
View ArticleRivers rerun: Probe ‘fake’ electoral materials
WITH twenty-four days left before the December 10, legislative rerun elections in Rivers State, signs of trouble loom. There’s fear, even anger across the state. You can feel it, you can touch it....
View ArticleFinancing renewable energy projects in Nigeria
By Martins Eke Renewable energy refers to energy that is harnessed from sources that can be replenished on a human timescale. Renewable energy sources include solar, hydro, wind and biomass. Some...
View ArticleTrumpeting the US elections
Last week, the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, Donald Trump, stunned much of the world – and, likely, himself – by defeating his Democratic Party rival, Hilary Rodham Clinton, in one of the...
View ArticleTrump’s troublous & trinitrotoluene Triumph
Mr. Barrack Obama made history in 2009 as the first African – American and the first non – Caucasian to be the President of the United States. As fate would have it, whoever of Mrs. Hillary Rodham...
View ArticleAbu Ali: Exit of a gallant soldier
By Michael Jegede THE news of the death of Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Abu Ali, said to be one of the most gallant commanders and efficient fighters in the Nigerian Army’s battle to crush the members...
View ArticleLegacy of abandoned projects
By Kenechukwu Obiezu IN Jos, it is the Jos Township Stadium that has been ongoing for 31 years. In Port Harcourt, it is the Monorail Project begun by the immediate past Governor and current Minister of...
View ArticleTrump’s triumph, not an abomination
By Victoria N. Ikeano Forget the latter-day rationalisations by the experts and bookmakers which are nothing more than excuses to mask their utter failure at outcome of the USA presidential election....
View ArticleIs American democracy a disaster?
By skc ogbonnia THE title of this piece conveys a strident mood. But the angst is no longer because a bozo of catholic proportion emerged as the US president-elect. It is not because of the reality...
View ArticleThe normalization of racism
Since last week the politically correct way to explain the miracle that was the victory of Donald J. Trump has been to say that he was the instrument of Providence who felt the pain of the marginalized...
View ArticleTribute to Onwudiegwu Offor
By AHAM NJOKU AS the Igbos would say, an Iroko tree has fallen. Benneth Onwudiegwu Offor who was born in 1928 died recently in 2016. In mourning, or better said celebrating the life of a man of 88...
View ArticleDiaspora voting rights: An urgent need
AS the 2019 approaches, the issue of Diaspora voting rights becomes heavier on people’s mind, especially when Nigerian-Americans residing in Nigeria participated in voting in the recently concluded...
View ArticleHunger, anger and Buhari’s optimism
By Percy Owaiye IT is conventional wisdom that a hungry man is an angry man. I am hungry, but not angry. It is indeed time for some of us who believe in the manifest destiny of this country to come...
View ArticleAmerica and the rest of the world
By Carl Umegboro UNITED States of America is widely held in high esteem as a first-world nation, and therefore, a reference point to other nations particularly third world countries. Unfortunately, its...
View ArticleWike, Senate and Rivers rerun election
By Robinson Nmerukin HAVE you ever wondered the name of the electoral body in the United States? I mean, they just concluded their elections. Do you know the name of the head of the organisation? What...
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