BEFORE the April governorship poll in Abia State , Chief Ikechi Emenike was in court challenging the candidature of Governor Theodore Orji as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, in the election. Emenike lost the case at the Federal High Court, Abuja and many had expected him to close rank with Orji like other major stakeholders in the State to move the State forward. Before the election, he had a reconciliatory meeting with Governor Orji who happens to be his brother and kinsman. In the meeting, he agreed to work with Orji for the success of the party in the elections.

GOVERNMENT of the people in power, for the people in power and for their powerful friends, may be another definition of democracy, if the peoples’ only place in government is to vote, for candidates of their choice.

BY CHIKE OFILI As he marks his 80th birthday, reading Professor Chukwuemeka Ike’s Sunset at Dawn (1976), one does not know how to understand it. Is it a historical piece of writing, a fictionalised history, or both? What is however clear in this seeming dilemma of choice is that Ike does not want the gory […]

There are strong indications that organised labour in the nation’s Petroleum industry is not taking the the alleged refusal of Depot and Jetty owners in Lagos to allow their workers to join the union as enshrined in the Section 40 of the Nigeria’s constitution and International Labour Organisation, ILO, conventions 87 and 98 among others, may soon lead to confrontation between labour and the owners of these companies

The Western market of African art objects is full of objects of dubious provenance and one would expect exhibitions today, to assist in tracing the trajectory of these objects in European museums and private collections that refuse to return them to Africa.