Nigerian football at the crossroads: Reforming or recycling?
By FAN Ndubuoke “The greatest danger confronting Nigerian football at this moment is not that the reform might fail. It is that we may call something reform while preserving the very people, structures and interests that created the failure in the first place.” President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directive ordering a comprehensive reform of Nigerian football […]
Insecurity: The fuss and force of self-defence
Director-General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Adeola Ajayi advocated for self-help and communal approach to insecurity and crimes…
Investing in Tomorrow: Tinubu’s blueprint for youth empowerment and economic prosperity
Nigeria, a nation pulsating with youthful energy, stands at a pivotal juncture. With a median age of 17, our demographic reality underscores a fundamental truth
A house divided against itself
By IKE WILLIE-NWOBU The heinous crime perpetrated against 16 hunters in Uromi, Edo State, on March 25 have continued to highlight the massive challenges Nigeria faces in healing the many wounds it has as a country. While there is a near consensus that the hunters who were reportedly travelling from Port Harcourt to Edo before a […]
National Assembly: A fitting playing field?
By ANDREW ERAKHRUMEN We will not flog a dead horse in this article. However, as always, we will contribute to the efforts at documenting perspectives on some past and ongoing events hoping that the future will finally need them as archival materials. This means that all the acts by a person or group (past and present) […]
Insecurity Scourge: Can Civilians Owning CCTV or Bearing Arms End It?
By Magnus Onyibe In the course of delivering a lecture at Al-Hakim University in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Thursday, April 17, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, PhD, implored Nigerians to acquire Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras to be installed in their residences and places of work. He argued that it is part of […]
A prophet with honour, just not enough at home: The Kayode Ajulo you don’t fully know
The adage, “a prophet is not recognized in his own domain,” has never rung truer than in the case of Dr. Kayode Ajulo, SAN. …
First World War and the bombshell
By EDO TOBORE From indications, war remains a recurring decimal ranging from inauguration of human relations across board. The scope is relatively large with due reference to community, socio-cultural setting, intra-state, inter-state and the global. The last sample is a rare specie and institutionally tagged World War. From the reckoning of literal history, the First World […]
Life in Ghana under an Nkrumaist president
By BANJI OJEWALE Here in Anyaa, Accra, capital of Ghana, I’ve come across some of the country’s leading newspapers. Their contents—news reports, opinions, vox pop, book reviews, cartoons(dearth of these), sports, photo stories, advertorials, etc.—give me a larger-than-life image of the Ghanaian society. The two oldest journals, Daily Graphic and Ghanaian Times, with their sister weeklies, […]
Okpebholo’s steady strides: Practical governance, Uromi and other matters
By JOHN OSAKUE Amidst the sounds of revelry and thanksgiving over the verdict of the Edo State Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja, which affirmed the victory of Senator Monday Okpebholo at the gubernatorial election held on 21st September 21, 2024, an Edo aphorism flashed to my mind and it states this: “You can tell a child […]
Fubara and Supreme Court judgement: What is unfair is bad — Aristotle
By Gboyega Amoboye Let me start by saying that I am not a lawyer, but with all humility, it may not always be right to say that a ‘non-lawyer’ is a layman, because the “ founding fathers of the legal profession, Socrates, and his protege, Aristotle, were sculptors turned philosophers. According to legal history, they were […]
