Carrying coal to Nescastle, by Muyiwa Adetiba
Regular users tell me that the road from Sagamu interchange to the Lagos end is usually about thirty minutes if the traffic is light and about forty-five minutes if it is heavy, which often happens at weekends. Recently, it took us – my two friends and I – almost four hours to navigate that journeyand […]
Questions for President Tinubu, by Ochereome Nnanna
President Bola Tinubu’s spokesmen have been oddly quiet over two very grave accusations which portrayed their principal possibly as a part of our security problems. When 25 students of Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga in Kebbi State were abducted about ten days ago, the state’s Governor, Mohammed Idris, made a shocking disclosure. He said his […]
Bound to television by failure, by Okoh Aihe
Reality can be as cruel as the worst nightmare, leaving foreboding overhang that haunts you for an indeterminate period. One would always wish at this time to go back to sleep and wake up to a new world, the real truth. Reality. But it has been written in the sands as an incurable memorial in the […]
Nigeria’s problem comes from the North, by Rotimi Fasan
As I write this at exactly mid-day on Monday, it’s been hours since the abducted worshippers of the CAC Church in Eruku town of Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State were released by their Fulani captors. At this point, it is futile for anyone to continue to deny the evidence before us about the identity […]
The Need for National Political Reform Conference (8), by Afe Babalola
Census There is no doubting the fact that for any country to plan appropriately, it is imperative to have a credible data. In other words, the number of males, females, adults, infants and even old men and women living in a particular country should be reasonably ascertainable. With special reference to Nigeria, we have never succeeded […]
Gladstone’s “Bulgarian Horrors” and Trump’s “Nigerian Genocide”: The manufacture of imperialist interventions, by Usman Sarki
“The major function of modern imperialism is to rationalise exploitation under the guise of bringing civilisation”— Walter Rodney The embers of conflict in the Middle East are still glowing menacingly. The dust in the ruined neighbourhoods of Gaza has not settled. Countless Palestinian bodies remain under the rubble, uncounted and unmourned. Yet even as the world […]
