‘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 […]
Amosun and Oma Djeba’s sour grapes
I read with disbelief Oma Djebah’s piece entitled “Amosun’s perilous pill”on the current political logjam in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State. Oma Djebah, who claimed to be a global journalist, threw away all caution that a journalist is trained to have in his diatribe against the governor of Ogun State.
Okowa and OBJ’s second term endorsement
WATCHERS of the renascent Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the devastation of the 2015 loss of power to All Progressives Congress, APC, into a formidable opposition party, must give credit to Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, Delta state governor for the pragmatic role he played in the entire rebirth process.
2019: Making the votes count
Let us re-orientate and sensitise our people on the importance of picking and being in custody of their PVCs and be ready to cast our votes
Amnesty International Report, Drawing the wrong conclusion – By Garba Shehu
The first thing to say about Amnesty International’s Report: Setting the Record Straight is to thank the organisation for confirming a fact stated time and again by President Muhammadu Buhari that the conflict between herders and farmers in Nigeria is not about religion.
Memo to Sambo Dasuki on Alex Badeh
As you spend your third year in illegal detention since December 2015, I am using this memo to intimate you about the brutal assassination of former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Alex Badeh by gunmen along the Keffi-Abuja Highway. He was expected to open his defence next month January 16, 2019 in the trial of alleged criminal breach of trust.
