By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu As far as judicial cuts go, it is difficult to find any more unkind or less supreme than in Nigeria. No one wants to invest in a country in which judges lack the capacity for indignation over credible charges of judicial corruption. This is why Nigeria bleeds investments, and even those […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 27 December, 2021) Proverbs are not just the palm oil with which yam is eaten; they are the yam. Where I come from, there are a million proverbs for every experience of life. Some people are contagiously sick but they hate being told so. They suffer self-deception, […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye (wole.olaoye@gmail.com) “Jingle bombs, jingle bombs, jingle all the way”, is the song of death terrorists are singing all over Nigeria, particularly in the North. This is one weary Christmas season that won’t be considered merry in many homes. The terrorists got so bold they fired missiles around Maiduguri hours before President Buhari’s […] Read more
By Basil Okoh It is truly absurd when the entire nation believes that President Muhammadu Buhari has the presence of mind to understand and sign the electoral amendment bill sent to him by the National Assembly. Truth be told, the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari does not presently have the mental capacity to understand the […] Read more
By Basil Okoh 58 killed by bandits, Boko Haram in Kaduna, Borno States. By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Ndahi Marama & Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo “No fewer than 58 persons were killed weekend by insurgents and bandits in Kaduna and Borno states.While 38 were killed by bandits in several villages in Giwa Loocal Government Area of Kaduna State, 20 […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye Every state in Nigeria should have its own ‘Amotekun’. That ought to be clear now to anyone desirous of ending the carnage by an assortment of violent gangs in the northern states. Before the creation of Amotekun, bandits and kidnappers were running riot in the Southwest, killing people at will and collecting […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG People tend to be alarmed when the Nigerian Presidency takes certain decisions. They don’t think the decision makes sense. Sometimes, they wonder if something has not gone wrong with the thinking process at that highest level of the country. I have heard people insist that there is some form of witchcraft at work […] Read more
By Basil Okoh Blood flows everywhere as the elite of Northern Nigeria are in cowardly retreat and as their cherished and once powerful region sink deeper into dissonance and murderous violence. The Sultan of Sokoto has cried out plaintively against unrelenting violence in northern Nigeria. So has the Northern Elders Forum (NEF). The Northern Youth […] Read more
By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi I want to congratulate my friend and sister Bamidele Ademola-Olateju on her appointment as Ondo State’s Commissioner for Regional Integration and Diaspora Relations. I know this is old news, but better late than never. I know of no better person for that position than her. She has invested tremendous intellectual […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye (wole.olaoye@gmail.com) Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi was the first Nigerian army general to make a lasting positive impression on me. Taciturn, sensitive and perhaps too considerate in interpersonal relations, Wushishi struck me as a man thrust into prominence by fate but who was more comfortable operating under the radar, away from klieg lights. I […] Read more
