When the state turns the law against dissent under Tinubu’s watch
By KOLAWOLE OLANIYAN It is happening again. Under President Bola Tinubu, Nigerians are facing an increasingly repressive political and legal environment. Like the Muhammadu Buhari government before it, the Tinubu administration is making an utter mockery of Nigeria’s constitutional and international obligations to respect human rights and uphold the rule of law. There is something […]
Majek Fashek @ Felabration: Dragging the legend back to rehab
So, we have all been happy for Nigerian Reggae legend, Majek Fashek after returning from many weeks of rehabilitation following his battle with drugs and alcohol addictions.
Nigeria’s disunity and the albatross of national integration
“I look forward to the day, not in the distant future, when Ijaw would be President of our Republic and a Berom his running mate or vice versa. Hence, in our politics of today or tomorrow, there would be neither north nor south, neither Igbo, Yoruba nor Hausa”. – Chief Obafemi Awolowo (House Debates: 1963) THE […]
Is this secession threat, a crack on the wall?
AN Igbo proverb says “If you know what will bring dispute don’t do it”. This implies that when a person or group of persons, decide to do things that will bring dispute, it is either that they have assessed their victim as a weakling, or they simply think that they can cause trouble, and get away with it.
Woes of SAs to the President
My friendship with Dr. Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo (1941-2003),the Oyi of Oyi began in 1977 when I covered the proceedings of the constituent assembly. The friendship cemented fully when I covered the Presidential campaign between 1978 and 1979. So when President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari(90) appointed Dr. Okadigbo as a Special Adviser in December 1979, I made several attempts, as a friend, to visit him in his office in the then Dodan Barracks in Lagos which was then the seat of the Presidency.
Osagie Ehanire: Ministerial nominee with a difference
IN this dispensation of “Change” , it is consoling that a personage like Dr. Osagie E. Ehanire is among the nominees for ministerial positions. As an accomplished medical doctor/surgeon he has distinguished himself in the medical profession and politics.
