2027: Atiku’s kitchen-sink strategy betrays crude populism, by Olu Fasan
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), is adopting a kitchen-sink approach to next year’s presidential race. A “kitchen-sink approach” involves throwing everything at a problem regardless of what works or doesn’t. That’s precisely what Atiku is doing by promising to tackle every conceivable vexed issue if he becomes president next […]
The second birth: Of fathers who scarcely knew their children, mothers whose absence defined memories!, by Stephanie Shaakaa
Fear has a way of exposing truths that comfort usually conceals. A child who wakes in the middle of the night after a nightmare does not think about bloodlines, surnames or family trees. In that suspended moment between terror and relief, there is only one question that matters: who is coming? The answer to that question is […]
From Budget Padding to Fake Agencies: The Senate’s Abdication of Oversight, by Emmanuel Aziken
The 10th Senate under Godswill Akpabio, which positioned itself as a partner in progress with the executive, has once again revealed the hollowness of its oversight claims. In the unfolding Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) scandal, a ghost agency that miraculously secured a ¦ 1.3 billion allocation in the 2026 budget, the Senate chose procedural technicalities […]
A Second Look At Our End-Of-Life Approach, by Muyiwa Adetiba
She was led in by two young care givers. She sat on the nearest seat so heavily and with such finality that I knew she wasn’t going to get up again unless she was ready to leave. We were at a small gathering of old acquaintances. I was nonplussed at what I saw. The person I once […]
With 1,316 MDAs, PFIPC was waiting to happen, by Adekunle Adekoya
ONE day, one trouble best describes our experience as a nation of peoples in our country called Nigeria. By the way, One Day One Trouble is a popular Nigerian Nollywood comedy-drama movie on the life a man trying to survive doing various jobs while dealing with a cantankerous wife, until a rich woman enters his life and […]
The United States of MAGAs, dreamers and survivors, by Owei Lakemfa
The Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota, is a 1,278-acre or 517-hectare tract seized from the Sioux Nation of India. Into its mountain face are sculpted the 18-metre or 60-foot-high figures of four former United States (US) Presidents. They feature founding President George Washington, main drafter of the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, […]
