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 […]
Mothers sabotaging their sons’ marriages without knowing it, by Stephanie Shaakaa
She stays in the marriage but leaves in spirit. And then, without realizing it, she chooses a new partner. Her son
Same Sin, Different Funeral: When man cheats, he’s a man, when woman cheats, she’s a monster, by Stephanie Shaakaa
Most men I know would rather set themselves on fire than forgive a cheating wife. Most women I know have forgiven or are actively forgiving a cheating husband
Millions for 90 minutes, peanuts for 35 years, by Stephanie Shaakaa
When a country rewards each Super Falcons player with N150m and house for a 90-minute football, yet sends police and military pensioners who served 35 years home with N2m, no housing, no healthcare, and a pension too small to feed
The Madness of the Fuji King, by Ugoji Egbujo
When I was growing up, The Madness of Didi was my favorite book title. I carelessly applied it to both the sane and the insane. Every outburst of irrationality was the madness of Didi. In Obi Egbuna’s The Madness of Didi, Didi spends 30 years in England, enduring racism and oppression. After killing six policemen, […]
NOA’s Impossible Road To Heaven, by Emmanuel Aziken
Ever since the Ibrahim Babangida administration established the National Orientation Agency, NOA, in its last days, perhaps to reorient the narrative of its tragic decision to annul the June 12 election of 1993, the agency has gone through various administrations. Perhaps none of the heads of the agency may have succeeded as the present administration, shepherded […]
