FG and Umahi’s roads to hell – 2
By Dele Sobowale The Benin-Agbor-Asaba highway to sudden death symbolizes everything wrong with how the Federal Government and Minister David Umahi have been managing Nigerian roads. The horrors of that road are being replicated everywhere – as will be demonstrated shortly. Umahi obviously is the wrong man for one of the most important assignments. Nigeria’s […]
Obi must not die! By Emeka Obasi
When those who get carried away by leadership begin to play God, it signals the beginning of a new chapter for the opposition. Whoever chose Benin City as the place to frighten the hell out of Peter Obi must be a dunderhead. The timing was doomed, from the onset. In July 2014, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, then preparing […]
The best medicine is the one you don’t need, by Tochi Okafor
We have a backwards relationship with wellness. Too often, we treat “health” as something that happens only in a hospital, a prescription bottle, or a last-minute intervention. We view it as a rescue mission rather than a daily practice. Preventive health flips that script entirely. It is not about reacting to illness; it is about intentionally living […]
Africa and the deadly dust from Iran, by Azu Ishiekwene
These are sad times. Who could have believed that after the US and its allies destroyed Iraq in search of “weapons of mass destruction” and found none, history would repeat itself as a farce? In neighbouring Iran, 35 years after Operation Desert Storm, the U.S. has launched a consequential war, only this time without even the […]
On the march towards state Police, by Adekunle Adekoya
LAST Wednesday, the new Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, was formally sworn-in as the 23rd indigenous head of the Nigeria Police Force by President Bola Tinubu. Before going further, some optics. His predecessor, Kayode Egbetokun was said to have been summoned by the President penultimate Tuesday, and in the aftermath of the meeting, Egbetokun resigned. Disu, an […]
Donald Trump, like Adolf Hitler, walks on both legs, by Owei Lakemfa
The on-going invasion of Iran by the United States, US, and Israel, coupled with the zeal of the European Union and Britain to appease President Donald Trump as he turns the international world order upside down, reminds me of Adolf Hitler. After the First World War in 1918 in which about 20 million died, the leaders […]
