‘Not as exotic as you’: The poetics of difference and othering
By Oko Owi Ocho Afrika Isaac Miebi Mandez creates a persona who is in therapy—but it is a collective self-therapy that takes us through the history of colonial violence, the continued impact of the wound of that violence, and what Frantz Fanon had noted as the continuity of the wound of colonialism, which we have […]
Enough of these education summits
OUR government officials are at it again! Instead of fashioning out an effective strategy to mend the broken walls of our educational system, they are warming up for another round of talk show. And to think that these talk shows are not organised with peanuts!
Edo 2012: Will PDP appoint the next governor?
The above question has become relevant against the backdrop of the argument which the proponents of the idea of a Benin Governor for Edo State in 2012 are selling to win over the uninformed to support their cause of getting nomination for the army general political recruit on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) who it seems may need a waiver to be eligible to contest unless he was issued a backdated party membership card, which is not impossible in Nigerian politics.
Tribute to Okoye Ifemelunma
GOD Almighty alone knows when to create an illustrious son for His people in dire need of financial, moral, patriotic and social upliftments. It was in this wise He gave Abomimi, Enugwu Ukwu, Anambra State and Nigeria a great son named Chief Joel Okoye Ifemelunma Onowu Enugwu Ukwu.
Belgore Committee: Another Jonathan’s salutary team? (2)
Ebenezer is there to drive through the ideas of the best Nigerian political administrator and technocrat in history in the person of Obafemi Awolowo.
Enugu not bankrupt: An open letter to Senator Adetumbi
RECENTLY, Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi, ACN, Ekiti North, made a baseless statement concerning Enugu State in the Senate. He claimed that Enugu State is in a financially critical state and that she is facing bankruptcy.
