Russia and China are betting that autocracy will beat democracy. That’s according to US President Joe Biden. But apart from generating headlines, his explosive claim seems to have little to do with the reality in either country. Not only is Read more…
THE ALTERNATIVE By Reno Omokri In my column last week, I published a piece, titled ‘Destroying Age-Old Myths About The Yoruba’, in which I described the heroic sacrifice made by the late Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi as apocryphal. Apocryphal simply means Read more…
Let me start by disabusing some minds: I am by the headline above referring to countless colleagues, friends and benefactors of mine who are of Igbo extraction, both females and males. I do not have a single Igbo girlfriend or any Read more…
The Christian Association of Nigeria has expressed dissatisfaction with the Increasing rate of abduction of students and pastors in the country. CAN made the concern known in a statement by its General Secretary, Daramola Bade Joseph, on Thursday. The Christian Read more…
Open grazing of cattle is a grave source of conflict between farmers and the herders throughout the country. The rate at which the clashes regularly occur is very alarming and indeed unsettling. This ever rising conflict has become a notorious national Read more…
…Insists inequality fueling agitation Elder statesman and National Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has described the South-East as the most disadvantaged geopolitical zone in the country. Clark further observed that inequality in the country Read more…
On Monday, June 21, barely six days to the Saturday, June 26, 2021, governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigerians woke up to behold a theatrical bent to an otherwise smooth electioneering. Cast as a 60-second amateur video, with Read more…
By Victor C. Ariole If God made the cheetah, he evidently put a lot of effort into designing a superb killer: fast, fierce, keen-eyed… with a brain dedicated to ruthlessly killing gazelles… He made both fast, so each could thwart the Read more…
Miscommunication is poison in international affairs. A state can send a signal to another, but it’s not the one intended. Given human nature, this is inevitable. But when military power is involved, the consequences can be dire. This was the Read more…
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has called for a referendum for the Igbo to actualise the Biafra Republic and peacefully separate from Nigeria. CNG Spokesperson Abdul-Azeez Suleiman said in statement on Monday that ‘in the light of the frantic Read more…
•Denies killing of security operatives Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied the speculations making the rounds by the people and security agencies that they are the controversial ‘unknown gunmen’. IPOB spokesperson, Emma Powerful, in a statement, yesterday, also denied the Read more…
By Madu Chris A fiery cleric in Nnewi, Anambra State, Bishop Abraham Chris Udeh said he had declared armed Fulani herdsmen a terrorist group at the Altar of God, since the Federal Government, according to him, had failed to do Read more…