Category: Opinion

A recent ultimatum issued by the ‘Lagos State Council Group of Elders’ of the National Union of Road Transport Workers that the national body of the union should withdraw the suspension of its Lagos State Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya, has raised apprehension of another season of violence in Lagos. There has been rancour in the commercial […]

By Fola Ojo Nigerians seem to have grown callous to inflictions and afflictions. They appear to have waxed pachydermatous to trials and tribulations. In spite of many decades of torrents of hurt and pain unleashed on them by those they chose as leaders, my people have a way of dealing with any bad situation as […]

By Olatunji Ololade In “The Two April Mornings” by Williams Wordsworth, and its companion poem, “The Fountain,” a 72-year-old schoolmaster bemoans his youth as an energetic man. Virility is canonised only when lost. Youth is documented as distant narrative removes, nostalgia within memory: the first poem ends with Wordsworth recalling the schoolmaster’s memories. Masculinity is […]

By Ben Ezeohagwu Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born on the 25th January 1978, a Ukrainian Politician, former actor and comedian, who is the sixth and current president of Ukraine. He grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine (Wikipedia, 2022). 2022 Russian invasion of […]

Slain SuperTV boss Usifo Ataga and Chidinma Ojukwu The oddity of Miss Cell 2022 pageant, held in Kirikiri prison the other day, was a nasty surprise that showcased the Correctional Centre as lacking in discretion. Ab initio, the event to commemorate International Women’s Day (IWD) with inmates was a noble intervention. But it lost its […]

Governor Soludo at his swearing-in ceremony By Ray Ekpu I request that you do not ask me to sink my teeth into the messy matter of slapping and being slapped that took place on March 17, 2022 when Chukwuma Soludo was about to be sworn in as the fifth Governor of Anambra State. That trivial […]

As the drumbeat of 2023 general elections gets louder, various characters are throwing their hats into the ring and moving deftly to the rhythm. Even members of the political class and statesmen couldn’t but be shocked by the quality of aspirants shoving for the driver’s seat. But beyond blind ambition and primitive sentiments of party […]

By Festus Eriye It was the slap heard around the world. When former Nigerian ambassador to Spain and wife of the late Biafran leader, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, smacked former Anambra State First Lady, Ebelechukwu Obiano’s face, she claimed to have reacted to provocation. But that reflex action born out of a moment of rage would […]

Nigerian authorities must tackle contributory factors to high maternity death rate Chilling information supplied by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, gives an insight into the gravity of maternal mortality in the country. He was reported saying about 100 women die every day during childbirth. This figure may not reflect the true picture because […]