Nigerians and Their Genetic Docility By Alex Agbo
We have been subjected to series of nerve stretching stories and trials such as no government would dare to dream of except the Nigerian government, which is superintending over the happiest people on earth; a people who are never aware…
Dr Ezekiel Izuogu and Buhari’s Change Agenda
As the Presidency of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari gradually inches towards inauguration, stakeholders in different camps in Nigeria’s political landscape are busy negotiating for places in the incoming administration. Various groups have ceaselessly besieged the President-elect to present their positions and…
Hoping Card Readers Are Here To Stay By Alex Agbo
In the build up to the presidential elections, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Attahiru Jega , introduced a novelty into the Nigerian political lexicon. There were back and forth arguments for or against the innovation….
Goodnight, Oronto Douglas By Abdul Mahmud
But for a poem or two written during the early years of my writing career, I find elegy a difficult and tedious genre to engage. The pain that goes into writing an elegy, or eulogies generally, often leaves me distraught…
Consensus In The Context Of Upheaval And Transition By Pius Oba
It is crystal clear that acidifying the political, social and security complexity and bewilderment in Nigeria is the excruciating rascality, immaturity, twisted patriotism and ideological dissonance of the Nigerian elite and political class. When the concept of ideology originated in…
Why Buhari will not agree to a debate with Jonathan By Femi Aribisala
In all my years of studying elections, I have never seen a campaign as bogus as that of Muhammadu Buhari. It is amazing that, for a man who is running for election as president for a marathon fourth time, Buhari…