By Amaechi Ikechukwu I AM in love with the phrase, ‘political silly season’, which, I understand, possibly came from an article in the July 13, 1861 edition of the London weekly newspaper, The Saturday Review, and was listed in the second edition of Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. So iconic is the phrase […]
By Niran Adedokun Regardless of what points it might want to prove, the Academic Staff Union of Universities can do better than these endless industrial actions. Unarguably meant to revamp university education in Nigeria, the strike strategy has become worn out, counterproductive and an existential danger to the very system it was meant to […]
By Dakuku Peterside THE holy grail of democracy is the widespread participation of people in the business of power, legitimised by the representation of elected leaders. Participation is so meaningful that the noun derivative of democracy, democratisation, means “the action of making something accessible to everyone”. ADVERTISING So, on face value, the democratisation of […]
By Kenechukwu Obiezu THE human experience of change is one conceived and consummated in the crucible of conflict. Change has hardly ever happened without some form of conflict, whether it rages within humans and systems or spills outside to pull others in. Statis has ever been hardly culled without the conspiracy of the crucible. […]
By Comrade Emeka Jude Omeh It is no longer a secret affair that some power drunk politicians in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area in Enugu State are wrestling power with their supposed leader, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Executive Governor of Enugu State ahead of the forthcoming PDP Primary elections to internally select […]
By Fredrick Nwabufo It is a kaleidoscope – the pattern keeps mutating. Nigeria’s politics should be among the most unpredictable, intriguing and exhilarating. There are more smokescreens than actual smoke; more pawns than real players; more masquerades than true pipers and more jokers than aces. But Bola Tinubu, former Lagos governor and APC presidential […]
By Aliyu Sulaiman SIR: Eight years ago as a final year student in one of Nigeria’s Federal Universities, I argued that the incessant strikes by ASUU were needless. I wrote a piece about how ASUU as a union was a complete joke. They had at the time embarked on an indefinite strike that would […]
By Cheta Nwanze ONE of the best pieces written about Nigeria’s Igbo problem by a non-Igbo person was recently republished by David Hundeyin in his BusinessDay column. There are two parts to it— The conversation we don’t want to have about Biafra (1 & 2). I highly recommend that you read it. Reading the […]
By Eric Ikhilae Before April 22, 2022. the idea of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan being drafted to contest the next presidential election as a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was considered speculation, often amplified by the occasional appearances of his posters in strategic locations across the country. But, on April 22, Jonathan spoke […]
The US supreme court is reportedly set to vote to overturn the law that legalised abortion. According to a report by Politico, this was disclosed in a leaked draft majority opinion written by Samuel Alito, a supreme court justice. After an initial vote among the justices subsequent to an oral argument, one is assigned […]
