Obadiah Mailafia
By Obadiah Mailafia
The tortoise and the palm tree are not known to be friends. Tall and elegant, palm trees can grow to a height of 200 feet (61.96 metres) in the Andean mountains of Latin America. Crafty and … Read the rest
Former EFCC boss, Farida Waziri
A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Farida Waziri, has given a number of reasons she was sacked from her old job by Nigeria’s ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan.
Waziri, who chronicled her engagement in governance in her new … Read the rest
By Obadiah Mailafia
The Nigerian economy is a series of paradoxes. In the first place, we are a very wealthy nation in terms of natural resource endowment. We in fact have an embarrassment of riches. And yet, we are … Read the rest
Otunba Runsewe
By Carroll Notagge
Following the unprofessional report released by Sahara Reporters (http://saharareporters.com/2020/01/05/damning-audit-report-ncac-not-during-my-time-runsewe), one is forced to ask again, is Sahara Reporters indeed useful in supporting the government when it comes to fighting fake news in the society or has … Read the rest
Virtually everything in Nigeria no matter how well-meaning ends up getting ethnicized, or politicized, or religionized. So it is with Operation Amotekun: the Western Nigeria Security Network whose recent launch by the Governors of the South West, on January 9, … Read the rest
Boko Haram
The news of the murder of the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Lawan Andimi, is unfortunate. Andimi had been abducted earlier in the month when Boko Haram insurgents attacked his … Read the rest
Amotekun…Beast of illusion (1)
To the murderous herdsmen, trespass is euphoric and subliminally erotic perhaps. Hence they rape farmers’ wives, daughters, sisters and even grandmothers, while plundering peasant farmlands.
Supposedly miffed and driven to self-preservation, the Southwest Governors’ Forum … Read the rest
Salome Abuh
The year 2019 presented as the umpteenth scene of Nigeria’s grotesque political drama. Its first quarter unfurled cloaked in blood and sadism of clashing tribal characters. Herdsmen plundered subsistence farms up-north, crossing the middle-belt into Nigeria’s south-lands, to rob and … Read the rest
Father Mbaka
Now that the Supreme Court has nullified the election of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Emeka Ihedioha as the governor of Imo State and declared the All Progressives Congress’ Hope Uzodinma the winner of the March 9, 2019 governorship election in … Read the rest
Ballot box snatchers
In January 1970, fifty years ago, the unfortunate Nigerian civil war came to an end. Every January 15 since then has been set aside to mark the Armed Forces Remembrance Day in honour of Nigerians on both sides of the … Read the rest
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