Basil Okoh Orphans of the worldIgnite!Draw your fuel of painFrom Earth’s sated core. Wole Soyinka(Flowers For My Land) Early in 1983, I met Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe at Mainland Hotel, Oyingbo, Lagos for a meeting of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP), a leftist party then led by Mallam Aminu Kano. Both Wole Soyinka and […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye Have you heard the news? About 727 medical doctors trained in Nigeria relocated to the United Kingdom between December 2021 and May 2022. As of November 2021, 8,983 Nigerian trained doctors were working in the UK. That figure has now jumped to 9,710. Nigeria is the country with the third highest number […] Read more
By Bolanle Bolawole The supposedly Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ended the registration of (new) voters despite the fact that there were hundreds and thousands of would-be or intending voters trooping into and milling around voter registration centres or points all over the country. We saw pictures of agitated Nigerians struggling to get registered. […] Read more
By Obi Nwakama What was Sam Omatseye thinking? That he could traduce an entire Igbo, and get resounding applause for his hackery? Everyone knows that Sam Omatseye does a hack job in contemporary Nigerian politics, and since he could not fit in properly at the Denver Post, where he did the last bit of real […] Read more
MaTaz ArIsInG (If you do not read any other thing today PLEASE take time to read this:) OUR ECONOMY CAN’T TAKE CARE OF SENATORS ANY LONGER.. Senators Annual Pay World Wide: Sri Lanka – $5,100.00 Malaysia – $25,300.00 Spain – $43,900.00 Ghana – $46,500.00 Saudi Arabia – $64,000.00 France – $85,900.00 South Africa – $104,000.00 […] Read more
By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi In this week’s Saturday Tribune column, I tackle Lai Mohammed who teleguided the NBC to fine Trust TV for its documentary on Zamfara bandits and Kadaria Ahmed for providing the ammunition that Lai used to muzzle the media. I show that they’re ignorant of both media ethics and media theory. […] Read more
By Eyitayo Oyepitan. MaTaZ ArIsInG The Lagos State Government may prosecute Arise Television staff, Rufai Oseni. The outspoken journalist admitted that he passed the Bus Rapid Transition (BRT) lane on Monday. On Twitter, Rufai explained that he did so because other vehicles passed and were not stopped. He said a policeman pointed a gun at […] Read more
Valentine Obienyem For those who read through Sam Omatseye’s diatribe and invented lies against Peter Obi, here’s an appropriate response from someone who knows him better and also came from the same school of thought.Nothing more to add. On Omatseye’s Obituary The other day, Mr. Sam Omatseye – a writer many used to have respect […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Suddenly, it is all quiet on the eastern front. No street heckles or flag waving or mooning over a yellow sun, no hooting or baying in public. The rabble no longer raves. Few wonder what happened to the Nnamdi Kanu crowd. Some may wonder if they are withering? The answer is before our […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju Will there be elections next year? Across the 19 northern states, tell me, apart from certain parts of Kwara and Kogi, where else will people queue on Election Day in 2023 without wearing vests of steel? Senator Shehu Sani is one big man from the North who does not know how to […] Read more
