By Tunde Asaju We all know it’s slapping season. And for once, Nigeria was leading on this one before the Americans, always eager to outdo others in games they are not even good at playing hijacked it. Hidden from the klieg lights and the clear view of television cameras, the Mrs Obiano/Bianca Ojukwu’s Anambra […]
By Emmanuel Aziken THE unsettled question of the falling apart of Mr Akinwunmi Ambode and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has come to haunt the presidential aspiration of the latter, Saturday Vanguard has learnt. Mr Ambode was denied a second term in office in 2019 after Tinubu […]
By Abimbola Adelakun Gospel singer Osinachi Nwachukwu’s death, reported to be a consequence of domestic violence, brought the issue of divorce to the fore. Expectedly, defenders of the oppressive patriarchal order have been mouthing one of the few verses of the scripture they have managed to master: God hates divorce! It does not matter […]
By Fredrick Nwabufo. A joker in poker is a wild card. It can be flipped; it can substitute and be substituted. And it can just be that jester. Nigeria’s political caravan is saturated with jokers. While some jokers are well aware of their status as factotums of other interests in the political circus, some […]
By Law Mefor “Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.” – Psalm 42:7 There has been a misguided counter-narrative against the campaign for Nigerian President of South-East extraction. The opponents of this just and noble campaign say that zoning is against merit […]
By Claire Mom SIR: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has formally declared his long held intentions to run for president in an underwhelming and self-sabotaging speech. His excellent poise and delivery would have been enough to sway gullible citizens but Nigerians have long learnt to look past a soothing voice and a calm demeanour. A […]
By Obi Nwakanma Mr Tunde Bakare, Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly (now also known as the Citadel Global Community Church) a Nigerian fundamentalist Christian church, is a man with a large following. His words are consequential. His pulpit is large. As a self-proclaimed Christian pastor, many Christians have trusted his words as true. […]
By Inibehe Effiong The House of Representatives is considering a Bill to prohibit and criminalize cross dressing in Nigeria. It’s astonishing that our legislators are majoring in frivolity and dissipating legislative time on the mundane. It’s neither necessary nor expedient. I’m flummoxed by the silliness and incongruity of this Bill. It is indeed distasteful, […]
By Osita Chidoka Days ago, two officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps were brutally murdered in the ongoing macabre orgy of violence by the strangely named Unknown Gunmen. Their offence? Lawful discharge of their statutory duty. The FRSC officers do not bear arms, and as such, it is cowardly to shoot unarmed citizens no […]
By Emeka Omeihe Those still confounded by the ease with which bandits bombed an Abuja-Kaduna passenger train, killed eight people, injured many with several others abducted should hold it. The reasons for its successful execution and the general reign of terror that has reduced human life to nothing in Kaduna state and the north-west […]
