By Olukorede Yishau ARUNDHATI ROY, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘The God of Small Things’, grew up in a land where sons got more than daughters. They got more education, more attention, more love, more money, more food and more inheritance. In short, more of anything and everything. In the India she was born, female […]
By Owei Lakemfa AS THE year 2025 rolls to a close, there are citizens of the United States planning, in the new year, to charge their country with genocide against its “Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples.” The Peoples’ Senate, one of the movements engaged in the “National Mobilisation Against Genocides”, declared that to mark the […]...
By Bola BOLAWOLE “Finally, finally, PDP has held Wike’s bull by the horns…” “You mean with his expulsion from the PDP by the factional PDP convention held in Ibadan?“ “You are partisan! The way you couched your question shows very clearly that you are on Wike’s side” “I don’t have to before asking questions! It […]...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE MY PHONE rang and a professional colleague rained torrents of questions: “Assuming Nyesom Wike, the FCT minister, is a Northern Muslim, do you think Yerima would have responded to him the way he did?” “Assuming Yerima is a southerner or southern Christian, and the FCT minister is a northern Muslim, do you […]
By Babafemi Ojudu A LOT happens in Nigeria that, if you did not witness it yourself, you would swear it was impossible. Some events are so bizarre, so grotesque in their violation of common sense and morality, that even D.O. Fágúnwà’s magical adventures in Ìrìnkèrindò Nínú Igbo Elegbeje pale beside them. Yet these are not […]...
By Owei Lakemfa THE FEDERAL Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike made two errors of judgement in the incident involving the alleged property of Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, a former Chief of Naval Staff. These have given the leeway for military apologists, defenders of impunity, apostles of the law of the jungle and unfortunately, unsu...
By Owei Lakemfa A VERY dangerous situation has arisen in the world with the United Nations Security Council, UNSC, on October 31, 2025 deciding illegally, to reverse a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). This has not caught world attention. It has not hit internal headlines because there is a universal complicity. Almost ...
By Owei Lakemfa THE ARE intense discussions going on in Nigeria. Is the United States of America, United States of Nigeria (USA) preparing to attack? If it is, what are the targets? A Government increasingly incapable of securing lives and property? The people, so terrified that they self-impose movement restrictions? Terrorists roaming aroun...
By Bola BOLAWOLE “A 17TH century English author, diplomat, and politician, Sir Henry Wotton (1568 – 1639), was quoted as describing, in 1604, an ambassador or diplomat as ‘an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country’” “How can an honest gentleman also tell lies?” “That is the irony of it […]
By Dr Josephine O. Soboyejo, Ph.D., CCLC I AM not engaging in rhetoric or supporting or opposing, as many Nigerians are doing right now. I want to present the facts I have gathered through research and personal investigation. I spent forty-five years in the political space of Nigeria, serving as an elected member of the […]
