The accidental rebel – Loyalty, exile, and hidden burden of the stepchild, by Stephanie Shaakaa
The hardest part for a child isn’t sharing a bathroom or adapting to a new schedule. It is the quiet panic of feeling that being kind to a stepparent means turning their back
End game for Bukola Saraki’s Kwara hegemony
This week, President Goodluck Jonathan led a delegation of PDP bigwigs to attend what was termed a “Unity/Freedom Rally”, in Ilorin, Kwara State. Senate President, David Mark, must have spoken the minds of other members of the delegation when he confessed apprehension that they might have just a few people to receive the delegation
Still on Lamido Sanusi
THE witch hovered over the house and cried all night. In the morning, the baby died. We do not need to search too far for the killer of the baby.
Confronting the North-East war
I AM wondering how former Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Nmodu Sheriff, is still strutting around the political landscape a free man. He ought to be cooling his heels somewhere for the roles he played in lighting the spark that has become a full-scale insurgency of international scope.
Nigeria’s expanding war zones
NIGERIAN governments are known by the many wars they fight. Each Nigerian government is a kind of war council that chooses its own kind of war.
Re-inventing Igbo politics in Nigeria
AMONG the different ethnic groups in Nigeria, the Igbo are without a doubt, one of the most remarkable. So remarkable, indeed, that some have even traced their ancestry to biblical Israel, as the far-flung descendants of Jacob, the Jewish patriarch. Gad, Jacob’s seventh son, is said to have had three sons who settled in South-eastern Nigeria.
