Atiku is right, subsidy removal needs revisiting – 2
By Dele Sobowale Some called it lunacy; others were more polite in their condemnation of the idea of government reversing itself. Few did the rational thing when confronted with a proposal on a vital public interest. Most of Atiku’s traducers were political opponents; who were afraid that the idea might just be popular and could […]
Road to Aro…and more, by Ochereome Nnanna
A few weeks ago, I came across a video of an unknown man in his SUV crossing the bridge on Igwu River newly-constructed by the Governor Alex Otti administration at Ozu Abam in Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State. He was exploding in words of praise for Otti, calling him things like “a man prettier […]
2027, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
“Give advice. If people don’t listen, let adversity deal with them”— African proverb. Ready or not, Nigeria appears to have been effectively placed in an election mode. There is enough in the last by-elections to draw some clues about the rest of the journey, and the elections themselves. There is also a huge […]
The supreme powers of the President(2), by Eric Teniola
From last week continues the narrative how President Obasanjo deployed his presidential powers to ensure that his chosen candidate, Chief Evan Enwerem was elected Senate President over Dr Chuba Okadigbo, the candidate of majority of senators. With the support of President Obasanjo’s allies in the ruling party, plus support from two opposition parties, AD and ANPP, […]
Rice red alert before crisis consumes us
By Dele Sobowale “The time is a quarter to midnight” — Norman Borlaug, 1914-2009 Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution and Nobel Prize Winner in Agriculture in 1970 opened his address while receiving the prestigious award with those words. It catalyzed governments globally to take the issue of food security seriously. Nigeria briefly embraced it […]
The clans gathered for Brother Okello Oculi as he paddled across, by Owei Lakemfa
The clans gathered. The intellectual clan surpassed the academic. The former flowed into the radical. The radicals bowed to the revolutionary. The revolutionary clan flowed into the Pan-Africanist. The Pan-Africanist made way for the traditional. We did not cry. It is not our culture to mourn the elderly who paddles to yonder sea. Rather, we rejoice […]
