By Felix Ofou MR. GODWIN Anaughe’s vituperations on the Delta State 2025 proposed budget follows a familiar refrain. It is riddled with inanities, distorted facts and manipulations which seek to portray the Governor of Delta State, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori as incompetent and unable to rule the state. Of course, it is common knowledge th...
By Emeka Monye IN HIS 2009 book, “What America Really Want, Dr. Frank Luntz, a respected pollster who measures the heartbeat of America, asked these survey questions: “If you had to choose, would you prefer to be a business owner or CEO of a fortune 500 company ?” His question was a closed ended one, […]
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “A regime committed to capturing all levers of power and arresting the machinery of constitutional guardrails has succeeded beyond its wildest imagining, enabled – it must be acknowledged – by a complicit judiciary no longer troubled by any inkling of its own constitutional standing or obligations.” THE UNR...
By Olu Verheijen THE QUESTION that would naturally follow any extended discussion of reforms is obvious – What has the administration’s ambitious reform program delivered so far? Because the reforms targeted actual bottlenecks and real projects in the investment pipelines, in April this year, FID was reached on the Ubeta Non-Associated G...
By Bola BOLAWOLE AS USUAL, last week’s “Not too young to kill…” drew an avalanche of response. Once the hand that writes writes and moves on, what readers make of it is entirely their own making. But we can all learn from such responses and rejoinders, which is why I am printing this piece here […]
By By Steve Omolale WITH HILLCREST hope of getting a new job in my dream newspaper, I sauntered into the expansive newsroom of The Guardian this sunny Friday afternoon in April 1994. My mission was clear: to see the then editor of the now rested Guardian Express, the much-sort after evening tabloid of The Guardian […]
By Emeka Monye DONALD TRUMP, son of an immigrant, was born on June 14, 1946, at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York City. He is the fourth child of Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. He is of German and Scottish descent, Fred his father who was a business, German and Mary, a Scot. […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE TOO MANY Nigerians are too difficult to understand, most especially the educated ones among them, or, should I say, the supposedly educated! They approbate and reprobate at the same time. In one breath they affirm that they stand for something; in yet another they negate the same thing they claimed to stand […]
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “The partiality that inevitably affects judges has been noted in cases with a political flavour.”David Pannick, KC, Judges, p. 44 (1987) THE STATE as we know it enjoys three notional monopolies. One is a monopoly of legitimate taxation. The second is a monopoly of the legitimate instrumentality of violence; and the [&h...
By Emeka Monye TWO MAJOR events recently took centre stage in public discourse, appearing both in traditional and social media and generating arguments and counterarguments among discussants. One was the assault by a House of Representatives member, Honourable Alex Ikwechegh against a bolt driver, Stephen Abuwatseya, who had come to deliver a ...
