THE sudden fall of oil price has exposed Nigeria’s economic foundation as a mono-economy and heterogeneous one with so many financial faulty lines. The unsustainability of the current ‘feeding bottle federalism’ as propagated by the Deputy Senate President,

Anambra’s guber race is on

IT is no secret that the political terrain in Edo State has taken the shape of a messy pile of cards with each passing day. With less than eight weeks to the governorship election, the ruling party and its opposition seem to be playing a game of Russian roulette within their own party structures, in a last jostle to secure the top job at Osadebey Avenue.

One may not name the names of those who, in attempts to prove Aribisala wrong in his “David did not kill Goliath” contestation; instead one may frown at their unacademic responses against academic papers like Aribisala’s. “Aribisala is a Satan.” How, really, is Aribisala a Satan? “Aribisala is Antichrist.” How is he Antichrist? This discourse, fighting against calling him names, seeks to prove him wrong.

The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, recently deployed a militia of local hunters to hunt down “Fulani” herdsmen in reaction to a recent incident in Ikole Ekiti, where some local people were killed as a result of clashes between “Fulani” herders and the local agrarian community. I have been trying to follow the arguments of those supporting the governor’s reaction to this unfortunate – but avoidable – incident.