Investigating and understanding Oborevwori’s triangular tide
By Enewaridideke Ekanpou A tide is a tide anywhere, but a tide assumes connotative colours when it becomes triangular in build and action. Like a cumulonimbus cloud endowed with both positive and negative potentials, there must be something hidden behind a triangular tide. There must be something equally iconographic about a triangular tide too when […]
ALSCON: Nigeria’s case of self-inflicted economic sabotage?
Yemie ADEOYE “I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.” -Craig D. Lounsbrough THE Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, popularly called ALSCON, is Unarguably one of the largest Aluminium smelting companies ever to be sited on the continent of Africa, and also unarguably one of the most strategically located on the planet. With the […]
Evidence of Buhari’s five years in the saddle
May 29, 2015, was a historic day in the country. It was the day an opposition party that was less than two years old dislodged the government in power. Some have argued that the success story was not because of the All Progressives Congress, APC, per se, but because of its standard-bearer in the election, then-Major General Muhammadu Buhari. The victory not only brought a lot of hope and expectations among Nigerians but also placed a heavy burden on the shoulders of government under the leadership of President Buhari.
How we should react to racism
By Sunday Usende Johnson Racism is one of the oldest evil created by man against man and justified by man. Racism is not limited to the inhumane treatment given by a “superior race” to an “inferior” one, rather, it includes seeing nothing wrong with such actions. Therefore racism goes beyond the acts. It is a […]
Re-Delta 2023: David Edevbie Nightmare begins with elder brother’s journey to prison
By Jon Egie Our attention has been drawn to an article entitled ‘Delta 2023: David Edevbie Nightmare begins with elder brother journey to prison ‘purportedly authored by one Barrister. Based on the contents of the presentation, it would seem that the writer proffered useful advice that could benefit the Urhobo cause for 2023. However, based […]
New Broadcast Code: Assault on the market and democracy
By ‘Kanmi Ademiluyi With the focus on survival due to the coronavirus pandemic, out comes a not-so-cleverly-disguised assault on the operations of an economy based on the efficacy of the market, but also a potential limitation on the plurality which anchors a democracy. As democrats and with the backdrop of the observation of the first […]
