2027: Afenifere, Adebayo, Bakita Bello, Arabambi, Ogunsuyi, others react to APC Muslim-Muslim ticket
Dayo Johnson, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Rotimi Ojomoyela, Shina Abubarka, James Ogunnnaike & Deola Badru Stakeholders have expressed divergent views over the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s decision to retain its Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket ahead of the 2027 general election, with some arguing that competence should take precedence over religion, while others called for greater inclusiveness and a […]
Deaths in Bakassi: Nigerians in ceded territory accuse Cameroun of breaching pact
Mid March 2013, over 2,000 Nigerians who have accepted their fate and changed their nationality in obedience to the ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun were attacked and ejected, causing them to return to Nigeria as refugees.
BOKO HARAM: The politics of amnesty
After prolonged prevarication on the issue of granting amnesty to members of the Jama’atul Ahlus Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, the move by the Presidency, last week, setting up a committee to explore the possibility of redeeming the security situation in the northern part of the country is being received with mixed feelings. This report presents how members of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, extracted the goodwill from President Goodluck Jonathan.
Victor Adedapo Kayode: Lest legend become myth
One of the most important foundations of any civilisation is history. If we do not know our own history, who we are, who and what our forefathers were and where we came from, then we are truly lost. In the film production of J. R. Tolkien’s famous book entitled, ‘’Lord Of The Rings’’, one of the most compelling yet tragic lines reads as follows: ‘’Thousands of years passed by….history became legend and legend became myth’’. Few words are as profound as this and the import of those words resonate nothing but the deepest wisdom.
‘We were blind, but now we can see’
Elder Enebedum Ekedife is a native of Nobi,Anambra State, some three hundred kilometres from Calabar, Cross River State capital. For three years, he was afflicted with some problem in both eyes. In mid- 2012, he went completely blind. If he needed to eat, someone had to be on hand to help him keep the food close to avoid spilling.
NSCDC/POLICE CLASH: Our husbands are gone forever!
Mrs. Florence Akhigbe was speechless when the news of her husband’s sudden death was broken to her; initially she discarded the news owing to the fact that the hubby, Inspector Innocent Akhigbe, left home hale and hearty on that fateful Wednesday. However, when sympathisers began to throng her apartment, it dawned on her that her hearthrob of many years had gone to the great beyond in the course of discharging his duties as an official of the Anti-Vandal Squad of theNigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC.
