Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps
By CHETA NWANZE Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate murdered by a police officer. The youths’ anger is not hard to understand. The […]
Anambra elections: When losing means winning for the APC
Anambra elections: When losing means winning for the APC
PMB’s first official visit to the South East and matters arising
On reflection, PMB would have realised that the people of the South East do not hate him per se; what they hate is the way he has been treating them
Still on South-South leadership
South-South leaders must maintain an intolerant attitude to political and leadership failures
Between Aare Baamofin and Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland
Tongues have been wagging and indeed, there has been babel of words, since Iku Baba Yeye, Alase, Igbakeji Orisa, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, named the O’odua People’s Congress, OPC, chieftain, Otunba Gani Adams, as the 15th Aare OnaKakanfo of Yorubaland.
Recession, our well-being and Economic experts
Since the publication of the 2017 Second Quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which indicated that Nigeria has inched out of recession, commentators who apparently do not agree with that position have struggled to link their perception to the state of well-being of majority of Nigerians. To them, since there is still an outcry of hardship in the land, then the country’s economy is still neck deep in recession.
