Afenifere warns rising insecurity threatens Nigeria’s democracy
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has warned that worsening insecurity across the country is undermining Nigeria’s democratic gains, urging federal and state governments to adopt a more coordinated and decisive response to banditry, kidnapping and other violent crimes.
They’re coming to America, by Azu Ishiekwene
Journalists like to think that the world would be finished without them. Nothing illustrates this vanity more than the joke by my old school journalism teacher that even when the world ends, reporters will be there to tell those in paradise what is happening on the other side. This illusion deprives the profession of its sanity. […]
Self-help on insecurity, the Ohuhu, Abia way as solution, by Adekunle Adekoya
LAST week, I asked fellow Nigerians, readers of this column what else we can do about insecurity that we haven’t done. It was a rhetorical question. Truth is there’re lots we can do that we haven’t done. Are we no longer Nigerians? The most resilient group of peoples in the world? Are we not the ones that […]
I remain loyal, committed to APC – Arise
Former Senator representing Ekiti North senatorial District, Senator Ayo Arise has refuted an allegation spreading around that he has instructed his followers to go against the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. Arise in a press release he personally signed on Friday restated his commitment and loyalty to the APC and disclosed that the issue on […]
Ending South Africa’s xenophobic attacks
The xenophobic attacks and anti-foreigner sentiments in South Africa is not new, but its persistence makes it an increasingly explosive issue. Each cycle of violence against foreign nationals chips away at the country’s moral authority and threatens the very ideals upon which post-apartheid South Africa was built. Since the end of Apartheid, South Africa has […]
The cold mathematics of capital: Why media hyperbole is the greatest threat to the new Olokola vision
By Kunle Odusola-Stevenson There is an old, uncompromising axiom in institutional finance: capital is a coward. It does not move on emotion, it does not capitulate to political applause, and it flees at the very first whisper of instability or regulatory unpredictability. The recent high-profile engagement between the President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, […]
