By Emmanuel Onwubiko The strongman of Chad, Nigeria’s neighbour from the war torn North East of Nigeria; Idriss Déby has reportedly been killed in the battle field whereby he reportedly led his fighters to challenge the rebels that were staging uprising and threatening to overrun the capital of N’Djamena. […]
Opinion
By Femi Adesina. Our country is at war today on many fronts. Nigeria battles insurgency, terrorism, banditry, kidnappings, armed robbery, cult killings, ritual murders, and war of tongues. War of tongues. Is that a new one? No, it’s as old as man, but it is perhaps the deadliest of […]
By William Ikhianosimhe Orbih. I am not saying that the much-revered Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has gone mad. Rather, I am saying that the recent happenings in Nigeria with him at the center remind me of Ola Rotimi’s play; OUR HUSBAND HAS GONE MADE AGAIN. Simply put, one of […]
By Emmanuel Onwubiko. By the nature of their oath of office they swore before assuming their offices as governors, these set of public office holders should be persons who ought to be promoters of the Rule of Law and due process rather than the opposite which will automatically revise […]
By William Ikhianosimhe Orbih. Still dandling upon my mother’s laps, I first heard the poem: “Fulani Cattle” by J.P Clark. I fell hopelessly in love with it from the very first moment I heard it. It was from my mum. She used to know the whole piece by heart […]
By Femi Adesina. New things are happening at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and suddenly, there’s a throwback to the 1996-1999 Lagos State, when the then Colonel Mohammed Buba Marwa was military administrator. Marwa took a broom, and swept Lagos almost clean. With Operation Sweep, criminals were […]
By Emmanuel Onwubiko. I am one hundred percent sure that beginners in the use of English will be infinitely fascinated by the structural beauty of the Idiom which says “making a mountain out of a molehill”. Etymologically, the oldest recorded history of the use of the aforementioned idiomatic phrase […]
By Femi Adeshina. Those who are younger than 55 or thereabouts may not easily get the joke in the expression, ‘We are all together,’ which I’ve chosen as headline of this piece today. The event happened 45 years ago in the country. A drunken military officer, Lt Col Buka […]
By Emmanuel Onwubiko. Just before this year’s Valentine’s Day celebrations, the first set of service Chiefs appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari few months after he was sworn in on May 29th 2015, voluntarily disengaged. Since their disengagement, a lot of waters have passed through the bridge. Also the Nation’s security […]
By William Ikhinosimhe Orbih. Fellow Nigerians, there is an urgent issue we need to address as a nation. We need to address this issue, lest we perish for failure to. Amid so much violence and incessant killings, poverty and unnecessary suffering of the overwhelming majority, oppression, and marginalization of […]
