‘Not as exotic as you’: The poetics of difference and othering
By Oko Owi Ocho Afrika Isaac Miebi Mandez creates a persona who is in therapy—but it is a collective self-therapy that takes us through the history of colonial violence, the continued impact of the wound of that violence, and what Frantz Fanon had noted as the continuity of the wound of colonialism, which we have […]
Ize-Iyamu: A two-in-one product for Edo
The offer is mouth-watering and irresistible. And it is in plain sight: no ambiguity or sophistry. Aside from his accretion of qualities, the practical and well-thought-out promises to salvage the state from the doldrums with the ‘SIMPLE Agenda’, there is so much more why Edo people are eager to vote for Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the September 19 gubernatorial election.
HOW NIGERIA IS KILLING HER OWN AGENCY: A case of NIPOST, FIRS and NASS
By Femifola Durosomo, The raging imbroglio between the Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST, and the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, on the issue of stamp duty is quite alarming. It is a typical example of how a government can sacrifice one of its own agencies to build another. The position of the National Assembly who supposes […]
Pay Attention to Details
People who do not pay attention to details are reactionary by nature. They only realize that things have gone wrong when the people under them begin to down tools in protest.
Face masks @N20,000: The President must hear this!
CIVIC Hive, a nongovernmental organisation, NGO, recently opened a can of worms by accusing the Federal Ministry of Health of engaging in hanky-panky business with regards to recent purchases of Personal Protective Equipment, PPE.
Nation building and obligation of Nigerian youths
Nigerian youths must appreciate that democracy is not an end in itself; that when democracy fails to underwrite social justice and social mobility, it fuels hopelessness
