The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change. Freedom and democracy are threatened. Evil must be vanquished. Human rights must Read more…
A man and a woman cross the street as police officers move in on protesters Macron is losing control of France. Thousands of arrests. Torched schools, community centres, city halls, sports complexes, post offices. Looting ranging from Lidl supermarkets to Read more…
Secretary General of Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), Chief Willy Ezugwu is in this interview spoke on various issues including expectations from the 10th National Assembly, government’s removal of subsidy on petrol and call by his group for the Read more…
Austin Isikhuemen writes a second letter for Soludo My dear nwane’m Peter Obi, In my first letter titled “History Beckons and I will not be silent (Part 1)”, I had written, inter alia, “Several well-meaning Nigerians and Ndigbo called to Read more…
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described the word ‘reconciliation’ in some media reports of Peter Obi’s visit to him on Sunday, as a “most inappropriate and diversionary invocation”. Soyinka stressed that there was basically no issue to reconcile between Read more…
Samuel Akinnuga pays tribute to Kingsley Moghalu, scholar, lawyer, and political economist After our last meeting on November 4, 2022, I tweeted: “For his genius, yes, but more importantly for the ‘high octane’ value he consistently brings to the public Read more…
Emmanuel Macron has just reminded us why we voted to leave the EU. On his way back from meeting Xi Jinping in Beijing, the diminutive énarque declared that Brussels should stop following the American line on Taiwan. Rather than behaving Read more…
The Seplat issue should be handled transparently and dispassionately, writes Dan Aibangbe Events breaking within the corridors of Nigeria’s energy giant, SEPLAT Energy PLC, (SEPL) is assuming a dangerous dimension. The intrigues being initiated by the dramatis personae are upping Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Anambra State Governor, Prof Charles Soludo has called on Ndi Anambra and Nigerians to use the period of Easter to show love and affection to one another He noted that the significance of Easter celebration calls Read more…
In the midst of the dissatisfying naira swap strategy of the Federal government, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele has acknowledged that the acute cash shortage hitting Nigerians is caused by a supply constraints resulting from Read more…
Nigerian opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar urged the central bank on Saturday to extend a Jan. 31 deadline to phase out old high-value banknotes, a measure many Nigerians fear will disrupt business in the cash-reliant economy. Nigerians have to turn Read more…
As the February 25, 2023 presidential election approaches, the candidates of the four major political parties – Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Rabiu Musa Read more…