2027: Vote ‘right’ or be banished? By Ikechukwu Amaechi
As should be expected in this political silly season, politicians will maximise the window to test wild narratives and launch personal attacks aimed at distracting voters from the substantive issues that confront them. There is nothing particularly wrong with that as long as such antics are within the ambit of the law. But most Nigerian politicians like […]
Seek divine elevation, by Funmi Komolafe
Let’s begin with thanks to the Almighty God that has brought us to the last Sunday in the month of April. Glory be to God. Brethren, having gone through four months, we all know that we have eight months left in the year. Within this period, a lot can still happen but what happens depends on […]
City Boy a name that revealed a nations fault lines, by Stephanie Shaakaa
They carry history, signal intent, and often reveal more than the speaker realises about how power imagines the people it seeks to lead
The emotional economy of love, by Stephanie Shaakaa
There was a time when love did not feel like a system under pressure. It was not described in the language of performance or evaluated like a portfolio
As Akpabio turns to prayer, by Emmanuel Aziken
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has again stepped into the eye of the storm, not so much for what he said as for what his words now represent in a country increasingly impatient with the language of power. His latest assertion he is praying that insurgency in Nigeria will end in 2026 has reopened a familiar debate: the […]
Paradox of the modern world where more means less, by Muyiwa Adetiba
A young man and his partner came to see me for a possible interview a couple of weeks ago. They own a Public Relations outfit together. According to them, an encounter with some mass communication undergraduates made them realise ‘something’ was missing in the education of these young students. They decided to introduce some ‘doyens’ of the […]
