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Lessons From Osun 2026 and the road to 2027: Parties, personalities and the coming contest (2), by Usman Sarki

Lessons From Osun 2026 and the road to 2027: Parties, personalities and the coming contest (2), by Usman Sarki

The first part of this article concluded with the observation that while all politics may indeed be local, the economic hardship confronting Nigerians today is anything but local. But before examining how these conditions may shape the 2027 elections, the Osun experience invites us to confront an even more fundamental question: what exactly do our political parties […]
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Infidelity is not encouraged in marriage

Infidelity is not encouraged in marriage

Everyone who has been with Woman to Women for a while know that we have dealt with this issue. Any woman knows that it is so wrong to be in a marriage and to be having sex outside that marriage. It is an abomination. Every religion is against it. Womanhood is so special.

Liberty for some, colonialism for others

Liberty for some, colonialism for others

THE French in 1789 carried out what can be termed a universal revolution. It declared in its violent overthrow of the monarchy that all “men are born free and remain free and equal in rights”. Human beings, the revolution declared, can do anything with their freedom, provided they respect the liberty of others. In proclaiming freedom, liberty and equality for the human race, the French revolutionaries affirmed that resistance to oppression is legitimate.

A reader’s responds

A reader’s responds

LAST week, I said that most of the Niger Deltans I know are anxiously hanging all of their hopes on President Goodluck Jonathan, that Jonathan reminds me of an only child who is the sole focus of his parents’ ambitions and that I sometimes pity Jonathan because it isn’t easy to be under so much pressure.

2011 poll already being rigged

2011 poll already being rigged

THE rigging of elections is a more complex operation than meets the ordinary, untutored eye. The objective of rigging election is to ensure the processes are artificially orchestrated to result in the emergence of a particular, premeditated individual as the winner.

Clowns, the Tortoise and  Babangida’s quest

Clowns, the Tortoise and Babangida’s quest

He said the journalists who ask Babangida such simple and historically correct questions are “being lazy scholars”.
Yet his claimed ‘scholarship’ did not in any way attempt an answer, rather he makes the bizarre submission that “rather than condemn in such wholesale manner the annulment, we should also be able to commend the man who made the election to be credible in the first place”.