Governor Oborevwori and the triangular tide
By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou A tide is a tide anywhere but a tide assumes connotative colours when it becomes triangular in built 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 viewed […]
Eat the poor to save Nigeria
My political party manifesto By David Hundeyin I was at an old friend’s wedding on Saturday, which doubled as a school reunion of sorts. There I ran into people that I had not seen in more than 12 years and we immediately started gossipping about our friends and schoolmates who were not present. I quickly […]
Nigeria’s Service Chiefs and Why Buhari’s Apple Is Sweeter
President Buhari receives Service Chiefs in Salah By Richard Murphy I have maintained intentional silence since the confrontation between the National Assembly (NASS) and President Muhammadu Buhari, as well as Security and Service Chiefs (SSCs), shuddered the nation. In a rare disarming display of insensitivity on bubbling tensions on insecurity in the nation, NASS did […]
Osinbajo and the lamentation of the Ancient Mariner
By Banji Ojewale Osinbajo: AFTER the sailors of the The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, had rowed into the frigid waters of the Antarctic, they experienced short-lived relief from a near-shipwreck. The crew were delivered from the ice jam; but alas they were drawn into more distressing anguish: they […]
Re-emergence of Lassa Fever: What Nigerians need to know
Ibrahim Abdulmumin Damilola The deadly Lassa fever strikes Nigeria again and as on Friday, 24th of January, 2020, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed that 29 deaths and 195 confirmed cases of Lassa fever had been reported across 11 states of the federation. The government and several healthcare parastatals are all in a […]
Civil War: Disclosures and Closure
By Issa Aremu THE quantity and quality of spoken and written commentaries on Nigeria’s civil war (note: not Biafra war!) once again point to the groundswell of an emerging national consensus. It’s time for some forms of closure to the grim stories of the national tragedy of the dark years of 1966 to 1970. Any war brings […]
