Investigating and understanding Oborevwori’s triangular tide
By Enewaridideke Ekanpou A tide is a tide anywhere, but a tide assumes connotative colours when it becomes triangular in build and action. Like a cumulonimbus cloud endowed with both positive and negative potentials, there must be something hidden behind a triangular tide. There must be something equally iconographic about a triangular tide too when […]
In Akwa Ibom, the merriment continues
ON Wednesday 23rd September, the Akwa Ibom State government rolled out the drums to celebrate the 28th anniversary of the creation of the state in a very lavish and ostentatious event that defied logic and common sense and ran contrary to the mood of the nation.
Jesus and the criminals
FROM the cradle darkness walked upon the surface of the Niger Delta killing any splutter of fluorescence like sunrise extinguishing lamps in Soyinka’s ‘Death in the Dawn’. From 1957 and beyond the consumed fluorescence turned into a vast void, only the crude oil flowing forcibly to illuminate demarcated territories. So some criminals emerged and militarily […]
Open letter to Group MD, NNPC
SIR, I am strongly compelled by recent developments at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), particularly the recent appointment of Dr. Babatunde Victor Adeniran as Group Executive Director, (Commercial & Investment) of NNPC, to write you. Ordinarily, in seasons such as we are today where government is in dire need of people of like minds; […]
At 55 are we truly independent?
EXACTLY two days time, we shall be celebrating another independence day, a day that we have always looked forward to with nostalgia; with reminisces, of hopes built and dashed, of good and bad. We remember the celebrations, the military parades and Air Force displays, the merriments and parties, the sober and the drunk, and then […]
Prof Bede Okigbo: The foremost Nigerian religious scientist
CHURCH attendance, fervent religious attitudes, and a strong faith in a supreme being are reportedly declining in many parts of the world, especially in the US where the recent research by Pew Research Center showed “the steadily rising share of people who are religiously unaffiliated – from 16 per cent in 2007 to 23 per […]
