By Frederick Nwabufo The vulture is a minaciously patient bird. It does not exert itself hunting. It waits to devour the kill of another. It circles the sky while the hunt is on waiting for the opportune time to take advantage and gobble up the carcass. The spirit of 10 Nigerians dispatched to the netherworld […]
By Reuben Abati The increase in the pump price of fuel, in 2020, a fall-out of the deregulation of the downstream sector, did not compel the youths of Nigeria to troop out onto the streets. The additional hike in electricity tariffs was not enough to ignite their anger either. The government of the day explained […]
By Frederick Nwabufo Women like Aisha Yesufu are like comets; they come once in a generation bearing the torch of truth, courage and resilience. They are lodestars, shining light on the path to a new world where humankind can thrive without chains and shackles. They are definers of the age; excellent species of their kind. […]
By Abubakar D. Sani, Esq Once upon a time (Make that twice) In far away Ondo State Two leading lawyers Or, rather, Senior Advocates ‘Locked horns’ On a slightly less familiar turf: The Governorship contest of the State The stakes were high enough As, apart from the two men A former deputy to the incumbent […]
By Ibe Pascal Arogorn National association of Nigeria of students ( NANS) have continued to fall the hands of students in Nigeria despite being more like a right agitating group for students. Two months ago,I made a Facebook Post withdrawing my ultimate respect for them. Currently the national authorities of NANS is manipulated by whom […]
By Frederick Nwabufo I believe you have all noticed. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is regaining his stature and waxing reformist on some of the problems dogging Nigeria. He is breaking out of the supposed cabal-stitched straitjacket into a tinderbox of chutzpah. It seems he has elected to remove the duct tape from his mouth at this […]
By Frederick Nwabufo The affliction called “the special anti-robbery squad (SARS)’’ has become resistant to every divined antidote. It was set up to treat the pestilence of armed robbery and other violent crimes. But the police unit became the behemoth of organised criminality. It became the canker it was commissioned to extirpate. There have been […]
. By CLEM AGUIYI Give it to the North, they get what they want at every turn while the South do the talking. Most radical ideas that had shaped Nigeria’s political landscape often originated from the South only to be perfected to advantage by the North. For instance, while the South championed the struggle for […]
By Ibe Pascal Arogorn Sincerely talking, this is the kind of trend that made the former IGP then ,Ibrahim Idris to rename SARS to F-SARS when a SARS operative raped a lady in FCT 2 years ago. The conditions of punishment are stated even to the extent that SARS detectives are ordered not to stop […]
By Frederick Nwabufo One detraction to the national rapport is the hackneyed lies. Lies told and retold many times as truth. Lies told deliberately to tinge a past of acrimony in brushstrokes of harmony. Nigeria never had a glorious past and the ‘’founding fathers’’ never envisioned a congenial future for the country. There has never […]
