Elderly women displaced from Benue community during attacks launched by killer herdsmen By Chinweizu ([email protected]) Any ethnic nationality in Nigeria’s New South which does not get itself admitted into the United Nations as a new nation by Christmas 2019 is a goner. It would have committed auto-genocide, with gleeful assistance from the Jihadist army and […]
Category: Opinion
By Godknows Boladei Igali If not for man’s ineluctable duel with mortality, the Old GRA, Port-Harcourt residence of Opu Alabo (High Chief) Olu Benson Lulu-Brigg simply known as “OB” by peers or “Opuda” (patriarch) by family and younger associates would have been the epicenter of diverse religious, cultural, political, social and familial happenings, during this […]
By Ifeanyi Nwoko The menace of sexual harassment in higher institutions of learning has taken a worrisome trend, with lecturers now undaunted in their quest to have sex with their students. The recent exposé by the BBC, of a University of Lagos lecturer, Boniface Igbeneghu, who solicited sex from a supposedly 17-year-old admission seeker, is […]
The National Assembly has recently revisited the moribund social media bill to address the fall-out of #ENDSARS promoters accused of peddling fake news which they claimed almost destabilised the serenity of Nigeria. The saga threw up myriads of accusations and counter-accusations by those who witnessed the shooting in Lekki and those defending the government position […]
Buhari with Tinubu in London By Sonala Olumhense There is a strong possibility that one year ahead from this week, President Muhammadu Buhari will be at Eagle Square in Abuja looking considerably older and sadder. The presidential election will be held on February 19, nine months away. When he takes the microphone for the fourth […]
Pastor TB Joshua By Steve Osuji FROM EAST AND WEST THEY COME: Let me confess upfront that I am one of those Nigerians who doesn’t honour this prophet. But let me also state that I don’t count one bit. His mega church in the dingy Ikotun-Egbe suburb of Lagos mainland is always filled to the […]
By Tai Olaniyi Yorubas are apt when they refer to the oddity in stinginess as they claim, “Ara ile Ahun ko gbadun Ahun, Ahun gan na ko gbadun ara re”. A stingy person is neither valuable to his family and also never to himself or herself. This submission Ebenezer Obey reinforced by singing that , […]
By Tai Olaniyi The first world renown bloody KILLER according to the Biblical story was brother Cain and first victim of death by clubbing or slaughtering was also brother Abel. I do not want to refer to Moses as also a murderer because the Israelites and followers of the Bible till date are usually silent […]
By Tai Olaniyi “History is that subject where it is difficult to begin from the beginning” so says a Swiss historian .And so when once upon a time, the lion roars and rolled into roared, it later lost its strength in the jungle. Many a man when in the colony of man and jungle of […]
By Tai Olaniyi The question is who will judge you aright in the land where injustices abound like the combination of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans? Time remains an ultimate judge and this time equally is a reflector of thoughts, words and actions of you and I. We sometimes and most times feel unperturbed to […]