For NBC, a time to rise above the puddle, by Okoh Aihe
The bell for political campaigns for the 2027 Elections went off last week. Already cauldrons of political abracadabra are boiling over. Surrogates and infradigs down the political ladder have started throwing stones, giving clear but ominous signals that things could get a lot messier and the air more fouled up in the days and months […]
Delta State no dey carry last, by Francis Ewherido
When we say DELTA STATE NOR DEY CARRY LAST, we are not saying we are perfect people. We are simply saying we naturally crave for excellence. It didn’t start today. In the Midwest Region which was renamed Bendel before Delta State and Edo state emerged from Bendel State, we dominated in sports and academics. In the last […]
Again, Trump’s way or the highway, by Azu Ishiekwene
It’s hard not to love US President Donald Trump. He is the world’s most powerful president and wears his preeminence on his sleeve. Not for him the crooked modesty of the Chinese or the boring self-effacement of the British. Six months after his second inauguration, it’s been one day, one Trump. Two of his latest […]
Seconding Netanyahu for Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize, by Owei Lakemfa
The great warmonger of our time, Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court, ICC, for war crimes and genocide has proposed President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Israeli Prime Minister, an expert in infanticide and the strategic deployment of starvation to wipe out resistant peoples, handed over to Trump the nomination letter […]
The roads not taken on insecurity, by Adekunle Adekoya
IF it’s not over, then it’s not over, and therefore we cannot stop talking about it. We cannot, indeed, we must not stop talking about a problem that threatens our very existence. It is trite to restate that as at this time, majority of Nigerians are feeling insecure, what with the news of killings and kidnapings in […]
Obi, Amaechi: Beware the desperate pledges of a one-term presidency, by Olu Fasan
Last week, I made a “theoretical” case for the return of former President Goodluck Jonathan to power in 2027. It was an unusual intervention. Unusual because I was very critical of the Jonathan presidency and strongly condemned his barely disguised attempt at a comeback in 2023 after his re-election defeat in 2015. However, the intervention was […]
