Tinubu’s brain versus Obi’s brain
By Onu Onwe The soapbox is a tempting platform. The politician and other users of it who utilize it to deliver an opinion may be seduced by the spontaneity it offers to say that which may be out of sync with their actual reasoning or intention. That is why the soapbox is a dangerous place […]
The snake bite
By SIMEON MAUTIN Reverend Father Nazareth was alone in his office a day after the presidential election. He turned on the TV for an update and something on the news about the election caught his attention and flooded his chest with all sorts of feelings: bitterness, frustration, irrational fears, hopelessness and a compelling voice screaming: “Why?” […]
Youths, politics in social media age
By MARINDOTI OLUDARE THE year was 1954 when 25-year-old Martin Luther King Jr became a pastor in the Dexter Baptist Church. By 1955, a now 26-year-old King organised the Montgomery bus boycott in protest of the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in Southern United States. As a 32-year-old, he had started the non-violent […]
Soludo, one year on
By Pat Onukwuli EXACTLY one year ago, March 17, 2022, Professor Chukwuma Soludo was sworn-in as Governor of Anambra State having polled 46 per cent of votes cast to beat the other 17 candidates in the November 6, 2021, Anambra governorship election. His ascendancy came with lots of hope and expectations for Ndi Anambra, as […]
Why Dapo Abiodun deserves a second term
‘The gale of endorsement across different demographics, social and religious groups, attests to one thing: Dapo Abiodun has taken the state notches higher’
Eko e dide: Rhodes-Vivour and other stories
By UCHE NNADOZIE FORGET that he could not pronounce Eko e dide! Loosely transplanted to mean: Lagos get up. This summarises the incongruence in the philosophy underpinning his political sojourn. It is axiomatic to say: Lagos no dey sleep. Sorry, it’s not an axiom, it’s a fact. Lagos does not sleep both metaphorically and factually. […]
