Ondo Ogun Festival: The biggest street carnival in Africa
By Yomisaint Adebayo Ancient tradition, modern spectacle and a sea of white and blue converge in Ondo City in a breathtaking celebration of heritage, love, peace and unity. There is a particular time of the year when Ondo City seems to remember itself. As August gives way to September and the signs of the annual […]
Warri, a distressed and a dying city
By MICHAEL OWHOKO Who will restore Warri back to its glorious days? A city that was once the pride of all Wafarians, is now a shadow of itself, rusty and reeking with aroma of poverty occasioned by systemic decline with people cocooned in deprivation and squalor. Warri is allusively known as Wafi, making the people and residents […]
Nigeria’s economic stability through eyes of Yemi Kale, Okonjo-Iweala
An X thread on Saturday by Dr. Yemi Kale, former Statistician-General of the National Bureau of Statistics, and an earlier statement credited to WTO Director-General Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala…
Oyebanji: The homo pacificus of Ekiti
By Omooba Olusesan Alabi One thing that had characterised the political terrain in Ekiti-State was lack of peace. The state was created alongside five others on October 1, 1996. It had a stint of military rule up till May 29, 1999, when the first democratically elected governor, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, took the reins of power. He […]
Canada’s dangerous redefinition of Nigeria’s democracy
By Olufemi Soneye When a Canadian court, last week, declared Nigeria’s two largest political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as terrorist organizations under Canadian law, it wasn’t just an immigration decision. It was a political earthquake with consequences that could reverberate far beyond Canada’s borders. This […]
VAPP Act 2015: Is FGM law reel or real
By Anthony Okechukwu The Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act 2015, which was signed into law by the Federal Government, outlawed the practice of female genital mutilation in Nigeria; nonetheless, the crime is still common and victims are often left in silence. In this write up, the pains of victims, and how enforcement of the law has […]
