… As Edo Acting Governor Says, “Only God Can Heal Our Land”. Grieving Catholic priests who on Friday laid to rest one of their own, Rev. Fr. Christopher Odia-Ogedegbe, who was gruesomely murdered by his abductors penultimate Sunday in Ikabigbo, Etsako West local government area of Edo State, have lampooned President Muhammadu Buhari over his…
Ukraine’s tears and Nigerian victims
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 7 March, 2022) Ken Saro Wiwa’s Soza boy (soldier boy) looks around. He sees inside one pit, the head of a soldier, and in another pit, the leg of a soldier. Everywhere he turns, he sees “so so human flesh in small pieces! Finger, nail, hair, prick, blockus…”…
Congresses of Gun and Godfathers
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 18 October, 2021) Today’s party politics and adultery have same rule of engagement: there is no commitment to fidelity and conjugal permanence. We are in this thing for a reason and it is for a season. It is not till-death-do-us-part. We respect political seminaries abroad thinking they are…
Abayomi Tasks NASS on New Constitution
The National Assembly is in the best position to help Nigeria out of the current constitutional crisis. Tunji Abayomi, lawyer and human rights activist stated this in a letter to Ovie Omo-Agege, deputy Senate president. According to the lawyer, the legislature can set in motion a new constitutional order, having derived its powers from the…
Nigerians Denied Freedom on Democracy Day
Saturday, June 12, 2021, appeared to have been a national referendum on President Muhammadu Buhari’s six years rule as Nigerians protested bad governance, attempt to regulate the social media, intimidating the electronic media through the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission, NBC and spiraling insecurity across the country. Nigerians gathered in their numbers in Abuja, Lagos, and other…
It’ll Be National Shame if Nigeria Does Not Learn Great Lesson from COVID-19, Doyin Okupe, Former Presidential Aide and Survivor
…Says with about $150 million, it’s possible to build world-class hospital. Former senior special assistant to Nigeria’s ex-president, Olusegun Obasanjo on public affairs, Doyin Okupe, a medical doctor, and a recent survivor of the rampaging coronavirus disease, has said that the lesson of the deadly disease would be lost on Nigeria if it did not…
Covid-19: Over 200 Nigerians Evacuated from Dubai
As part of efforts to bring home Nigerians who were trapped in other countries following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic over 265 were brought into the country on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. They were evacuated from the United Arab Emirates, UAE. There was panic in the afternoon when the Emirate Airline which was supposed…
DESOPADEC MD Preaches Peaceful Coexistence Among Nigerians
Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh has charged the Northern Youth Council of Nigeria to formulate programmes that would enhance cohesion among all ethnic groups and to foster democratic ideals in the country. Ogieh, who expressed the need for peaceful coexistence among northerners and southerners, expressed concern…
The Judiciary and The Phantom Certificate
…When judges are unable and unwilling to defend their independence and the rule of law, that’s the surest way to enable the enthronement of an autocratic government – Nosa Igiebor Time is the unerring teacher of things unknown. What was not clear yesterday would become obvious tomorrow. Five years ago, millions of Nigerians gave Muhammadu…
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