Category: OPINION

By Law Mefor There is a Peter Obi witch-hunt that is ongoing. Undoubtedly, certain forces are after him. You can call it Obidients-phobia or Obi-phobia. Both are equal in the eyes of the attackers. These sustained attacks on Obi, Datti, his running mate, as well as the Labour Party and the Obidient family, are simply because they have upended the system and are devoted to creating a new Nigeria that would be beneficial to all Nigerians. They hope to overthrow the corrupt system using the ballot and the law because…

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By Austin Okere Reading about the post-2023 Presidential election discourse in Nigeria is exasperating. The politicians have successfully steered the discourse away from logical discussions about our country’s development to emotional and divisive topics such as tribalism and religion. This tactic has been used to maintain the status quo by dividing the population. People are willing to overlook the truth and blindly follow their tribal or religious affiliations. We have all been manipulated and will continue to be until we can break free from this narrow-minded way of viewing national…

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By Victor Amadi Professor Oluwole Soyinka needs no elaborate introduction. He is an illustrious son of Africa, and a pride to the black race in a world dominated by white achievements. His 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature shattered a glass ceiling and opened the hallway of recognition for other writers of African descent. Besides intellectual prowess, he has always been engaged in good activism until recently, fighting injustice and bad governance from his youthful days at University of Ibadan. His persuasive persona, incisive mind, oratorial endowments and brilliant works have…

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By Promise Adiele I greet you, sir. I crouch and genuflect before your domineering presence – the irrepressible man of letters, the first black man to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Despite your recent paradoxical posturing, which suggests a striking alignment with corrosive forces in Nigeria, you remain a global totem of literary ingenuity. You are a legend in the literature fraternity, a position you share with your late friends and compatriots Chinua Achebe and J.P. Clark. No genuine engagement of African literature is complete without a mention of…

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By Kindness Jonah Tracing the history of power play in Nigeria would reveal a cat and mouse race. But who is the cat, and who is the mouse? A bird eye view of the scam posture is the undoing of the rising sun, the hullabaloo in the air that Nnamdi Azikiwe and Jaja Wachukwu in their oratorical prowess could not move an inch forward in 1959 election. Particularly Jaja Wachukwu leading the indigenous Nigerian Federal House of Representatives in 1959 called all Nigerians to disrespect tribe and clanish cleavage and…

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By Christian Nwokocha There are indications that more than 20 eligible Governorship aspirants will slug it out in their respective Political Parties during party primaries with a view to emerge as candidates. In matter of days from now, political parties will commence their respective party primary elections in preparation for November 2023 Governorship election. No doubt, Imo indigenes need a mentally balanced governor who is educated and possessed an identifiable means of livelihood before now and other skills, capable of delisting the state from the nation’s terrorism register occasioned by…

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By Sunny Igboanugo Reading through the letter of my dear sister, Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie to Joe Biden, the only plausible conclusion that I could make of it, is the popular adage of the mother hen, when the kite takes its chick away. It says the hysteria in flapping its wings, running around, and shouting at the top of its voice, is for the world to hear its voice and not for the assailant to have pity and drop the baby or the hope for help. Of course, our Joe, or…

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By Steve Oruruo In what has been dubbed the “Springtime of the Peoples”, French citizens started a wildfire revolution in 1848 to dismantle their old monarchial structures. This spread across Europe, engulfing over 50 countries, even without any form of systematic international coordination. The goal was simple – the people wanted to take back their nations from unapologetic hegemonies basking in arrogant, self-serving absolutism. That may appear to be in the distant past. But more recently and just a little over a decade ago, the Arab Spring took the world…

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By Olumide Akpata On Saturday 18 March 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted the gubernatorial and State Assembly elections to mark the second and concluding round of the 2023 elections. On that day, INEC, the law enforcement agencies and the Nigerian populace were presented with a golden opportunity to demonstrate to the rest of the world that, the below par showing on 25 February 2023 notwithstanding, Nigeria’s democracy had come of age. At the end of the day, not only did we fail spectacularly in this regard, but…

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By Charles Ogbu Few hours ago, the Department of State Services (DSS) claimed to have identified some political actors involved in a plot to install an interim government. According to the statement signed by Peter Afunanya, the spokesperson of the Spy Agency, the plot is “not only an aberration but a mischievous way to set aside the constitution and undermine civil rule as well as plunge the country into an avoidable crisis”. The Service identified “endless violent mass protests in major cities” and “frivolous court injunctions to forestall the inauguration…

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