By Lekan Otufodunrin Last December I was invited for a programme in Delta State and my condition for attending was that the organisers would provide flight ticket. They accepted to, but I was still worried that distance we would still drive from the airport to the venue of the event outside the state capital. A […]
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Several efforts to reconcile the warring groups in the Southwest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have failed as both parties refuse to shift ground based largely on lack of trust and considerations for the 2023 general elections. The internal cohesion of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may yet again be put to test in the South-West […]
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By Femi Orebe These herders invade farms and houses to kidnap, rape and loot. They collect ransom before releasing their victims. In some cases, they kill their victims even after collecting huge ransoms. The story of Dr Fatai Aborode who was killed on his 300-acre farm, which led to the Igangan crisis and the rise […]
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By Ben Ezeohagwu I As so deep in our keep,herdsmen strike endlessly,cattle battle in a baffle,just a peep in our seep, Constant turmoilfrom humour of herdsmen,no longer so strangeor new in Nigeria,full of rapes,kidnappings or killings. IIAs we weep in our neepherdsmen stride boldly,cattle prattle in a rattle,just a beep in our beef constant painfrom […]
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By Banji Ayoola Tributes have continued to rain on the departed celebrated writer and wordsmith, Mr Taoheed Ajao. Ajao, a columnist with the Ondo State Government-owned The Hope newspaper, and former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs & Communications to the immediate past Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, passed on on Saturday in his […]
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Nigeria says the first batch of 100,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 is delayed because of “politics and logistics due to no fault of Nigeria.” The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday, said the issue of vaccine was a serious one to government which […]
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Lobbying by power brokers heightens There is suspense in the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, ahead of the service exit date of the Inspector-General, Mr. Abubakar Adamu Mohammed. The suspense is hinged on the fact that it is not clear whether Adamu’s tenure would be extended by President Muhammadu Buhari. Some power brokers were said to […]
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The recent clash between itinerant Fulani herders and citizens of some Southwest states was not a flash in the pan. There have been such skirmishes in the past, especially dating back to the fourth republic of former Oyo State governor, Lamidi Adesina. Fulani herders and farmers’ clashes in Southwest region play up the triangular dialectics […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly have been told to immediately declare killer herdsmen as terrorists, if peace and progress will return to the country. Lagos-based socio-political critic, Chief Adesunbo Onitiri, who disclosed this in a statement, said the killer herdsmen do not represent the true and genuine Fulanis going about their life lawfully. According to […]
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By Martins Oloja On September 13, 2020, on this page, I looked into the seeds of time again and reported some revelations from an oracle that I should recast my (February 16, 2020) message to the authorities here. There was a revelation then, for instance, that the constituted authorities were failing to read ‘the writings […]
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