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 […]
Zoning Crumbles, Merit Prevails: Olawepo-Hashim and PDP’s new reality
The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) decision to open its 2027 presidential contest has raised fresh questions about the zoning principle long used in Nigerian politics.
The presence of Asupa Forteta’s absence and Julius Pondi’s presence
Presence births and foregrounds absence in the architecture of man’s journey on earth. Integrally, presence and absence are often part of human existence
2027: Time to break Ogun West’s 49-year jinx
By Kayode Oladele For nearly five decades, Ogun West has lived under a shadow. Since the creation of Ogun State in 1976, the governorship has rotated between Ogun Central and Ogun East, leaving the good people of Ogun West Senatorial District excluded from the top seat at Oke-Mosan. This glaring imbalance has hardened into what […]
The renewed push for a cleaner, safer and healthier Lagos
By AJAYI LUKMAN With over three million cars and 100,000 commercial vehicles on the roads (when the national average is 11 vehicles per kilometer), Lagos daily records an average of 227 vehicles per kilometre of roads. Lagos is home to about 2,000 industrial complexes, 10,000 commercial ventures, and 22 industrial estates. It accounts for over 60 […]
Dennis Otuaro’s story and Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda
Chief Dr. Dennis Otuaro is well known in all the communities that make up the Niger Delta
