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AFCON: On your marks, set…., by Patrick Omorodion

AFCON: On your marks, set…., by Patrick Omorodion

For 29 days beginning from today, all eyes would be focused on Morocco, the new bride of the Confederation of African Football, CAF and Federation of International Football Associations, FIFA, as they host the 30th edition of the African Nations Cup, AFCON. This competition holds every two years and on even number days until 2013 […]

Digital bandits, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

Digital bandits, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

If you use your keyboard and ring light as weapons to  terrorise people If you steal someone’s peace If you launch unprovoked attacks If you manufacture stories from nowhere If you are in the business of smoke without fire If you raid the integrity of an innocent person If you bear false witness If you […]

Birth of Jesus, reign of Christ and Christmas in Nigeria

Birth of Jesus, reign of Christ and Christmas in Nigeria

With Emperor Constantine’s intervention and the Christian religion’s legitimisation, which gave rise to the free practice of the faith in the then Roman Empire that comprised parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, Christmas has been celebrated across cultures and constituencies. This celebration marks the special in-breaking of God in human history.

Peter Obi and the elephant he must shoot, by Emmanuel Aziken

Peter Obi and the elephant he must shoot, by Emmanuel Aziken

It may appear superfluous to once again warn of the existential threat confronting Nigeria’s continued existence as a multiparty democracy, especially given the manner in which the All Progressives Congress (APC) has continued to ride roughshod across the political landscape. Yet what remains disturbingly underappreciated is not the threat itself, but the striking ill-preparedness of […]