Rehabilitating terrorists or delivering justice? By Ejiro Ofoye
For more than a decade, Nigerians have buried their loved ones, watched entire communities reduced to rubble, witnessed schools destroyed, churches and mosques attacked, soldiers ambushed, and millions displaced by the brutality of terrorism. Thousands of families are still searching for justice, while countless victims continue to live with physical and emotional scars that may never […]
Tinubu, the Great: Naija no dey carry last, by Ugoji Egbujo
Tinubu has done us proud. The first Nigerian leader to visit the English monarch in decades. That’s no mean feat. He may not have tamed the electricity demon he had bitched bitterly about when he was in the opposition. But it’s inspiring to see him dazzling the paparazzi at Windsor. It’s not easy to find […]
Why walking away is hard to do, by Muyiwa Adetiba
Before the advent of digital media with its era of quick clicks, the print media was the most enduring means of reaching and influencing minds. This made its practitioners visible and its Editors powerful. And connected. There was therefore, the tendency to see the world as your oyster, or worse, to think the world owed you, […]
Bursting the BATified bubble! By Donu Kogbara
Ardent fans of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, BAT, are something else! They can’t abide anyone who doesn’t share their blind allegiance to their hero. They choose to wallow in intellectual dishonesty and to disbelieve deservedly negative stories about his performance and his past. They blame him for nothing that is going wrong in Nigeria. I […]
ADC’s problem is ADC, not APC, by Azu Ishiekwene
This is the last thing the African Democratic Congress, ADC, wants to hear, but it has to be said, even if the party digs its thumbs in its ear. It began with the party’s delayed registration. When things were not moving as quickly as the early defectors, mostly from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had expected, […]
Washington’s three blind mice, see how they destroy the world, by Owei Lakemfa
Washington’s three blind mice. Donald Trump, their President. Marco Rubio his Secretary of State and Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defence, now transformed into Secretary of War. A trinity of the greedy, the liar and the lawless, nesting in territorial and colonial delusions. In carrying out mass destruction and massacres as they are doing in Iran, and […]
