Opinions & Articles
Under former President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s Southeast region, the most peaceful at a time, suddenly exploded in a wave of inexplicable violence. Prisons, police stations, court houses electoral commission offices …
At the turn of midnight on 31 December 2022, teenagers made bonfires with condemned tyers and combustible materials from the outgoing year. Like miniature comets, firecrackers blazed through the night …
The list of obnoxious subsidies crippling the Nigerian economy is endless: welcome packages, severance packages, housing allowances, transport allowances, medical benefits, executive fleets, endless convoys, security votes, forex allocations, estacodes …
Although the first gunshots of the Nigerian Civil War were fired in Gakem, Ogoja Province (now Cross River State) on July 6 1967, the roots of the conflict lay much …
(Culled from the book Elephants, The Grass and a Teacher… By Chinyere E. Egbe, 2022) There is a false impression that the most proximate event was what led the country …
Introduction On May 30, 1967, Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra as a breakaway, independent country from the state of Nigeria. This was the culmination of one …
The death of the Nigerian Journalism Colossus, Peter Enahoro, stirs a whole lot of emotions and sentiments that justify a brief excursion into the odyssey of Journalism in modern Nigeria.In …
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 …
After the INEC-enabled Daylight Robbery of February 25 2023, the APC high command is now using divisive politics, intimidation and subterfuge to hush opposition voices and attempt to keep a …
On March 3, 2023, the Supreme Court released its much-anticipated rulings in the case of AG Kaduna, Kogi & Zamfara State v AG Federation & Ors SC/CN/162/2003. Press statements were …
