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Thursday, 13 April 2023 03:12

Four biggest losers of 2023 general elections - Michael Owhoko

Real losers of 2023 Nigerian general elections are not the electorate who were deprived of their rights to freely choose candidates of their choice nor the first-timer youth who were disappointed by the Nigerian state nor the candidates who lost or won as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The biggest losers are President Muhammadu Buhari, INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, President-elect, Bola Tinubu and Nigeria as a political entity. Except for Bola Tinubu who carries the burden of legitimacy arising from flawed process and total miniature votes garnered, the others will live with scar and collective guilt slammed…

Tuesday, 11 April 2023 03:24

The attack on Soyinka: Why the Obidients are right - Sam Amadi

I am not an expert on treason or toxicity, but I am in love with the Obidients. They are an inconveniencing lot because they refuse to accept the excuses and arrogant nonsense of the so called elites. Many Obidients are more intelligent, patriotic and sensible than those who either claim Emilokan or other feudal or class prerogatives. How democratic are these lots who are putting down the Obidients if their idea of democracy is to make false statements and never get pushed back? If that is their conception of democracy or public reason, then they have not understood democracy. By…

Tuesday, 11 April 2023 03:23

Obidients, give us a break - Ehi Braimah

Nigeria’s political environment has assumed a new but disappointing and frightening mob culture over an election that has been won and lost. In a previous article, I pleaded for peace and asked that we should stand together as we await the outcome of the petitions at the election tribunal. I am sure I was not asking for too much. Understandably, there are frayed nerves and bitter emotions exerted in the form of intimidation, cyber-bullying and hate speeches, but we do not have to burn down the country because of one election. Have we forgotten that Nigeria belongs to all of…

Monday, 10 April 2023 03:22

Soyinka: Has the man finally died in kongi? - Charles Ogbu

The notion that Wole Soyinka’s pedigree should exempt him from criticism is a very silly notion. Puerile, even! While the playwright’s records as a human right crusader and social justice activist are not in doubt, some of his actions, inactions and utterances especially in recent years and now, are beginning to paint an entirely different picture. Looking at his most recent media outing on the 2023 polls, the comparative literature professor exhibited all the characteristics of a man whose mouth is filled with hot agbado. And we must not shy away from saying this. He sounded quite dishonest, hypocritical and…

Monday, 10 April 2023 03:21

Time to relocate Maiduguri Monday Market - Hassan Gimba

Maiduguri, the capital and the largest city of Borno State, was founded in 1907 as a military outpost by the British colonial authority. It consists of two cities - Yerwa to the west and Old Maiduguri to the east. While Yerwa was founded in 1907 by Abubakar Garbai as the capital of the Bornu Kingdom, old Maiduguri was selected by the British as their military headquarters, replacing Mafoni. The same year it became the location for the British Resident Commissioner over British Bornu. In 1957 Yerwa became the designated name for the urban centre while Maiduguri was officially applied as…

Sunday, 09 April 2023 03:31

Is Soyinka, the god, unraveling? - Festus Adedayo

Kongi, Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, a deity before whom many Nigerians tether goats, sprinkle oil, pour libations and offer ekuru of appeasement, is going through ferment. It is a period comparable to that low moment which, the Yoruba say, when big misfortunes wrestle one down, smaller travails defecate into one’s mouth – Ti iya nla ba gbe’ni san’le, kekeke a ma g’ori eni. In an elegy to Adegoke Adelabu who died in a 1958 road crash, his NCNC political party bard, Ilorin, Kwara State-born Odolaye Aremu, narrated his sudden death and the emergence of voices of diatribes against this Oluyole petrel…

Sunday, 09 April 2023 03:28

Christ’s resurrection and the Believers today! - Taiwo Akinola

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death ~ Philippians 3:10. Introduction Happy Resurrection Sunday to all our friends and brethren round the world! May the power of Christ’s resurrection continue to bring renewed hope, love, peace, power and God’s endless blessings to you and yours, in Jesus Name. Amen. Easter is one event that clearly distinguishes Christianity from all other religious persuasions in the world today! Our Savior, unlike the other religious founders, is not in the grave! Why? The power of death and…

Sunday, 09 April 2023 03:25

Article of faith: Fools for Christ - Femi Aribisala

No one likes to be considered a fool. When someone tries to take us for a ride, we are inclined to ask: “Do you think I am stupid?” “Do you consider me to be a fool?” Often, he does. Everybody thinks he or she is smarter and wiser than anybody else. That is why this is a world of lies and liars. We think we can pull the wool over the eyes of everyone else. The truth of the matter is that we cannot. But that does not stop us. When we are on the receiving end, we are outraged.…

Saturday, 08 April 2023 03:29

Fascism on course - Wole Soyinka

It would appear that a record discharge of toxic sludge from our notorious smut factory is currently clogging the streets and sewers of the Republic of Liars. It goes to prove the point that provoked the avalanche EXACTLY! The seeds of incipient fascism in the political arena have evidently matured. A climate of fear is being generated. The refusal to entertain corrective criticism, even differing perspectives of the same position has become a badge of honour and certificate of commitment. What is at stake, ultimately is – Truth, and at a most elementary level of social regulation: when you are…

Saturday, 08 April 2023 03:28

An open letter to Wole Soyinka - Oluniyi Olóyè

Dear Mr Wole, You’re being disingenuous sir. Your attempt at the revisionist version of the recent happenings in our country is sad. Our people say, “Where we expect to meet wisdom, if we meet folly there, it pains deeply.” The part that irks me is the selective outrage. Not once did Soyinka come out to speak against the violence and intimidation being perpetrated by actual fascists during the election. Looks like he’s just woken up from his slumber. Why are Obidients required to hold themselves to a higher standard of behaviour than the people who commit actual acts of violence…

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Friday, 07 April 2023 12:16

A British example in our rascally times - Azu Ishiekwene

When King Charles, the head of the Church of England, is crowned on May 6, there would be two very unusual non-Protestant special guests at the ceremony, among others: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who is Hindu; and the Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and next First Minister of Scotland, Humza Haroon Yousaf, a Muslim. Not two unusual guests. Three, actually. The third, Ireland’s Prime Minister and son of a Hindu Indian doctor, Leo Varadkar, is openly gay; one of the only five openly gay world political leaders. It gets even more interesting. Before King Charles’ arrival at…

Friday, 07 April 2023 04:00

Nigeria’s hollow democracy - Chimamanda Adichie

Dear President Biden, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential election. Many Nigerians went out to vote holding in their hearts a new sense of trust. Cautious trust, but still trust. Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerians have had little confidence in elections. To vote in a presidential election was to brace yourself for the inevitable aftermath: fraud. Elections would be rigged because elections were always rigged; the question was how badly. Sometimes voting felt like an inconsequential gesture as predetermined “winners” were announced. A law passed last year,…

Thursday, 06 April 2023 02:44

This is how democracy will end in Nigeria - Abimbola Adelakun

Once again, the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission imposed a heavy-handed fine on Channels TV, following a petition by an aide of Bola Tinubu. Ironically, the petition was based on some comment by the Labour Party vice presidential candidate Datti Baba-Ahmed who, during a live interview, said something to the effect that swearing Tinubu into office in May would “end” democracy in Nigeria. This not-so-subtle manipulation of a state agency by the aides of an incoming president signals a pattern of power abuse that will only worsen. Baba-Ahmed was wrong to the extent he assumed that swearing in the beneficiary of a…

Wednesday, 05 April 2023 03:22

The way of the world - Owei Lakemfa

Lagos, the most cosmopolitan and politically progressive state in Nigeria on March 18, 2023 engaged in the degenerative politics of exclusion. The debilitating disease of campaigning that a non-full-blooded native cannot be governor, is an incapacitating one. Ten days later, a different philosophy of politics evolved in Scotland where the parliament elected 38-year-old Humza Haroon Yousaf, son of first generation migrants from Punjab, Pakistan, as the country’s first minister, or de facto leader. The Scots were not interested in who Yousaf’s father is, where his wife comes from or the nationality of those he hangs out with; they simply want…

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