By Prince Steve AKANDE There are festivals, and there are institutions of history. The INYAMA Festival of Igarra, in Akoko-Edo local government area of Edo state, belongs firmly to the latter category. The sacred festival of rain belongs to the Anonyete clan, they speak to heaven and heaven listens to them. Ancient as memory and […]

This  week, we continue the narrative on boycott of elections in Nigeria Chief Ojike did not introduce the slogans for people to boycott elections. Chief Ojike was born in 1912 in Akeme in Arochukwu, Southeastern Nigeria. He attended the Arochukwu Primary School, finishing in 1926 and taking up a teaching appointment with a mission. He returned […]

Advises INEC to Ignore the Court’s Order The New Direction for Nigeria Movement (NEDMO) strongly condemns the recent court order directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister five political parties. This judicial directive is a dangerous assault on multi-party democracy. It is capable of truncating Nigeria’s hard-earned democracy and national stability. NEDMO in […]

Every nation eventually reaches a point where silence ceases to be prudence and becomes complicity. At such moments, patience no longer looks like maturity; it begins to look like surrender. Nations do not decline only because bad people act badly. They also decline because good people, seeing danger clearly, choose comfort over truth. Nigeria is approaching such […]

The recurring derailments and operational disruptions on the Warri–Itakpe Railway have become a source of growing concern to commuters, industry stakeholders and policymakers alike. Once celebrated as one of the flagship achievements of Nigeria’s railway modernisation programme, the corridor is increasingly attracting attention for a troubling pattern of derailments and service interruptions. The latest derailment reported […]