The 9/11 that never happened: What Britain saved the world from
TWENTY-FIVE years after the planes struck America, the most frightening part of 9/11 may not be what the terrorists achieved, but what they originally intended to achieve - and what intelligence agencies have since learned to prevent.
2019 POLLS: No evidence of hate speech in Nigerian newspapers ― Survey
By Wale Akinola No evidence of hate speech was observed in Nigerian newspapers’ reports monitored between July and September 2019, according to a survey. The survey comes against the backdrop of the controversial Hate Speech Bill currently in the works at the Senate. The bill, which has outraged many Nigerians, provides for the death penalty […]
In praise of the soft vengeance Busola Dakolo
BUSOLA Dakolo, a mother of three who grew up a gifted child was the unlikely heroine in this script. She first laid bare her claims in an interview with Chude Jideonwo, lawyer and co-founder of the digital platform, YNaija.
Toye Akiyode: Agosco @ 70
By Ikeddy Isiguzo AS a cub reporter at The Punch, 41 years ago, Toye Akiyode was one of the senior reporters we looked up to, then we had mentors without tags. He spent minimal time in the newsroom from his beat at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, a facility that shared a fence with The Punch. […]
Joao Marques: It’s Time to Negotiate for a Better Future for Africa’s Energy Industry
By enhancing production and streamlining resource management, African countries can finally have the capital to invest in industrialization and in the diversification of their economies If you go to Amazon.com to purchase NJ Ayuk’s most recent book “Billions at Play: The Future of African Oil and Doing Deals”, which you absolutely should do, you will […]
When Otuaro danced for a woman
FOR Otuaro to be caught dancing it naturally becomes a canal for the spontaneous flow and overflow of applause. It, however, dramatically turns into a canal for the conveyance and flight of verbal contraband directed at him with deadly accuracy when the dancing is found to be at variance with reasons of governance, cultural obsession, cultural extravaganza, occasional spiritual ecstasy precipitated by divine visitation, and filiation by marriage with the woman for whose valued entertainment the dance is choreographically staged.
