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Tuesday, 21 August 2018 05:27

It’s time to reclaim ‘socialism’ from the dirty-word category - Elizabeth Bruenig

A Gallup poll this month found that Democrats are warming up to the idea of socialism — or at least to the word. While 57 percent of Democrats polled said they view socialism positively, only 47 percent said the same of capitalism, down from 56 percent in 2016. Republicans, meanwhile, remain pretty enthusiastic about capitalism, with 71 percent rating it positively. Still, 16 percent of GOP voters said even they view socialism through a friendly lens, which raises the question: When Americans say they view socialism one way or the other, what exactly do they have in mind?The United States…

Tuesday, 21 August 2018 05:25

Why Facebook is running out of time to rebuild its reputation Running - John Oswald

“Silicon Valley faces many challenges, and I am encouraged that there are so many dedicated, thoughtful and skilled people continuing to tackle these challenges at Facebook.”You bet, Mr Stamos. You bet. But we’re left wondering if your former boss Mark Zuckerberg is among them. And with the investors reeling following Facebook’s remarkable dip in market value, is time running out to rebuild Facebook’s reputation?The official response from Facebook following Alex Stamos’ departure as Chief Security Officer was this: “We are investing heavily in security to address new types of threats for the people who use our services. Earlier this year…

Monday, 20 August 2018 06:03

“Demolition” of common sense - Seun Kolade

In the early hours of this morning, agents of the Oyo state government under Governor Ajimobi stormed the premises of Fresh FM owned by Yinka Ayefele. According to reports, the demolition has been a subject of a restraining court order. The government went ahead with the demolition anyway. Amidst the furore this action generated, it emerged that the governor had spoken about this in a radio interview at Fresh FM many years ago. In that interview, Ajimobi said some of his supporters pressured him years ago to demolish the property. The reasons they gave, as stated by the governor himself,…

Monday, 20 August 2018 05:51

Why PDP is ten times better than APC - Femi Aribisala

I have said time and again that I am not a member of the PDP. I am saying it again. I have never been and will never be a member of any political party in Nigeria. I have also said I do not know personally, have never met or even ever spoken to President Goodluck Jonathan, although I remain as ardent in his support as I was during the 2015 election.Before you call me a liar, let me state here for the record that I finally had the privilege of speaking to President Jonathan a few weeks ago. A nice…

Sunday, 19 August 2018 05:29

'Kofi Annan tended the world as a sacred garden” - Dankwambo

The Governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, has described the death of former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, as a great loss to Africa and the entire world. He stated this in a tribute mourning the passing on of the celebrated diplomat.The statement reads:The late Kofi Annan was, without doubt, Africa's gift to the world. As Secretary General of the United Nations, the second African but the first black man to hold that position, Anan was the perfect advertisement copy for the African heritage of diligence, resilience, brilliance, humaneness and all the virtues that make up impeccable character. On…

Sunday, 19 August 2018 05:04

Tinubu and the penalty kicked into throw-in - Festus Adedayo

Even among discographers, the exact logic in the highly famous song of Temitope Adekunle, Ondo State-born youth musician who is more popularly known as Small Doctor, cannot be deciphered. Small Doctor had caused a major eruption in national dancehalls when he released that hit song he labeled Penalty. Although delivered in Yoruba, the locale-blind nature of music all over the world ensured that this song travelled across virgin lands, penetrated tongues alien to the tongue of its delivery and burst musical charts, primarily because of its fast tempo as well as its rich garnishing with danceable vibes and rich repertoire…

Sunday, 19 August 2018 04:43

How two years of Instagram Stories has altered the way we love, act and play - Olivia Ovenden

I first realised Instagram Stories had changed my friends while sitting outside a pub earlier this year. It was the point in a Friday night when drinks begin to linger on the table as everyone privately debates whether to go home.It wasn't a moment worth capturing, but when someone came back from the bar with a phone held up, everyone tried to make it look like one. Glasses were raised and middle fingers thrown at the camera to show the exaggerated hallmarks of people having fun.It was the same self-conscious performance I’d given when my boyfriend recorded me driving through…

Saturday, 18 August 2018 06:13

As another storm breaks - Edwin Madunagu

This piece is a dialogue with Nigerian Leftists – and all those who feel they share essential attributes with Leftists (socialists and pro-people radical democrats) but, for one reason or another, reject the “label” Leftists. The dialogue is driven by current political happenings and is here presented in form of notes, observations and propositions.Early in the morning of Thursday, August 9 - about 48 hours after armed detachments of Nigeria’s Secret Service operatives took over the National Assembly complex in Abuja – I sent a text message to a number of activist Nigerian Leftists. The message read: “For me, it…

Friday, 17 August 2018 06:04

If I were Saraki… by Steve Nwosu

Anybody who bought the cock and bull story about the federal government banning codeine and Tramadol obviously did not watch the two political rallies that held in Akwa Ibom State recently. I saw old men, many of them above 60 years old, jumping like they were on steroids, and telling lies that would leave the Devil green with envy. They were contradicting and condemning themselves with reckless abandon. And their equally ‘stoned’ audience clapped and giggled, with very few of them able to remember what they just heard, or why they were clapping in the first place. Only Tramadol, qat,…

Thursday, 16 August 2018 07:29

Between APC and PDP: Playing Bully and Victim Game - Jideofor Adibe

This is an interesting time for Nigerian politics. There is now a complete abandonment of any pretensions that 2019 is not the main determinant of the moves and counter moves of the two dominant political parties – the ruling APC, and the opposition PDP, which is eager to come back to power. Just like a good novel is sustained by suspense, political plots are also sustained by suspense and intrigues: what for instance will happen when the National Assembly reconvenes? Will the leadership of the National Assembly, especially that of the Senate, be changed? Will Saraki outmanoeuvre his traducers once…

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Tuesday, 14 August 2018 05:45

Dauragate and the shame of a nation - Reuben Abati

The week that just passed will for long be remembered as perhaps the most momentous week in the history of the Muhammadu Buhari administration since 2015. Exactly a week ago, officers of the Department of State Security Services (DSS), acting under the instructions of their boss at the time, Lawal Daura, wearing hoods, stormed the premises of the National Assembly in Abuja, Gestapo-style, occupied the place and resorted to the harassment of National assembly workers, members of the Legislative Assembly who had rushed to the place, and civil society groups that heard of the assault and decided to witness the…

Saturday, 11 August 2018 05:52

Dismissal of Alhaji Lawal Daura: Not A Minute Too Soon - Abubakar Dangiwa Umar

Without a doubt, the summary dismissal, last week, of Alhaji Lawal Daura, Director-General, Department, State Security, came as a big surprise to many people. It seemed to contradict the world order!In the last three years, Lawal Daura had marched from one audacious act of impunity to another; had rudely defied the President, had routinely ignored court orders and seemed all but successful in curving out, for himself, a government within a government in Nigeria. There was hardly any observer of the turbulent Nigerian political scene over the last several years who still believed that Lawal Daura was subject to any…

Saturday, 11 August 2018 05:43

Nigerians Must Stop Buhari from Killing Nigeria - Tola Adeniyi

Nobody should by now be in doubt about President Muhammadu Buhari’s gory agenda for Nigeria. I wrote about this subject in a satiric article titled The Agenda (theeagleonline.com.ng/the-agenda-by-tola-adeniyi/) we cannot pretend to be unconcerned when hundreds of thousands of our fellow country men, women and children have been consigned to Internally Displaced Persons crammed camps all over half of the country, and yet we pretend not to be at war!Let me confess that I used to be one of Buhari’s most ardent fans. I was the founder of the Canada-based Global Intelligentsia for Buhari with members drawn from Europe, Asia,…

Thursday, 09 August 2018 06:22

Reflections on the DSS’s Siege of the National Assembly - Jideofor Adibe

The siege at the gate of the National Assembly complex by the operatives of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) on Monday August 7 2018, in which they shut out lawmakers for hours, has continued to dominate news headlines. The outcry that followed the siege was based mainly on concerns that the APC controlled federal government was trying to use strong-arm tactics and unconstitutional means to impeach the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.In this piece, I will reflect on the events of the siege and the likely fallouts from it:One, a major concern raised by…

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