Countdown to 2027: Edo North is for Oshiomhole
By Allison Abanum Adams Oshiomhole’s first term has been defined by a deliberate strategy of translating legislative power into tangible federal presence for Edo North. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, he has leveraged his position to facilitate federal employment for constituents and ensure fair representation in federal institutions. His legislative record includes […]
#ENDSARS protests: The Lekki shooting – a tragedy for attention of the leaderships (4)
This is the concluding part of the piece which, yesterday, reminisced on the bad taste that #ENDSARS protests evoke. By Paul Amen Aifuwa FOR a fact, those who suffered the irredeemable anguish and are enmeshed in the loss due to the aftermath of the vexed events, were some of whose generations or descendants, are probably, […]
How Black America saved the US and the World from Trump (3)
This is the third and concluding part of the piece which, yesterday, analysed the total lack of self-awareness of Trump and his fellow White supremacists By Ogaga Ifowodo BUT even if to the hard-to-persuade these do not constitute enough evidence of the fundamental threat that Trumpism posed to America and the world, then consider the […]
Our challenges are beyond SARS
By James Adeyemi GOVERNANCE requires skills like medicine and navigation. This was the view of Plato, a philosopher of note during his lifetime. Our challenges in this country are numerous and go beyond the issue of SARS which seems to be the only nightmare every Nigerian is having at the moment. SARS unit was a […]
Of defeated President and social media might, could it happen here?
By Joel Popoola Defeated and discredited, humiliated and humbled, Donald Trump continues to deny the clear result of US presidential election – which he lost by over five million votes – and refuses to concede to his challenger and now President-elect Joe Biden. Instead, he uses the media he controls – his Twitter account – […]
Still on the nagging issue of tobacco control funding
The recently-released Tobacco Interference Index 2020 Report which established that the Nigerian government has fallen short of several critical standards of transparency and probity in engagements with the tobacco industry, is indeed an eye-opener to how far the industry will go to thwart implementation of the World Health Organisation – Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC).
