THE RACE IS ON WHO SURVIVES THE LEGISLATIVE CALL IN TARABA POLITICAL ARENA COME 2019
BY IRA A. TUKURA As 2019 General elections draws nearer, there are all manner of permutations, transpositions, inversions and retrograde among politicians who are either seeking election to retain their seats or contesting and contending with the incumbent. In the build up to the election, some individuals are called upon by their constituents to throw […]
THE FUTILITY OF ELECTION BOYCOTT IN ALA-IGBO
By Charles Ogbu. First, let me make this very clear, I recognize that election boycott is a legitimate tool of civil disobedience. But it is my humble view that Igbo youths boycotting election in Ala-igbo is a move that will further worsen our woes as a people. It will not help our quest for freedom […]
Why Power Makes Otherwise Sane People Brain-Damaged
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Almost everyone I know wonders aloud— and in silence— why people in power change radically; why they become so utterly disconnected from reality that they suddenly become completely unrecognizable to people who knew them before they got to power; why they get puffed-up, susceptible to flattery, and intolerant of even […]
MY PRESIDENT MAY BE RIGHT – Ambrose Bernard Gowong
“President Muhammadu Buhari has said many Nigerian youths are uneducated, not ready to work and dependent on revenue from oil to survive. He said the youths, who make up 60 per cent of the population, were waiting to get social amenities free without doing anything.” – punch. My observations 1. We have a president who […]
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND HIS CRUEL HUSBAND
By Femi Fani Kayode. When President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in the United Kingdom in preparation for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, Archbishop Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Cantetbury and the presiding Bishop of the Church of England, who dutifully sat at his bedside when he was critically ill last year and who has assumed […]
WHEN AN ABUSE OF AN OLD MAN BECOMES MINDLESS AND ATROCIOUS
By Anayo M. Nwosu When a man gets older and crosses age 70, his sense organs begin to wane and malfunction. The brain articulates slower. It is normal to hear old men complain of ear, eye and joint problems. Human body is like a car. It gets older by each day. It also needs frequent […]
LIKE THE SILHOUETTE OF A VISIBLE MIRAGE, THE JURY IS OUT FOR CANDIDATE BUHARI!
By Samuel Ajayi What would have been the news was if Buhari announced he wasn’t running. His announcement was no news. His recent efforts at rapprochements with Tinubu were the background works. You may ask John Oyegun! For Buhari, the jury is out. In 2015, he was protected, propped up and dressed in borrowed garbs. […]
APC, PDP, AND A TALE OF TWO ADULTEROUS WIVES AND THEIR HUSBAND:
Please before you read this, put on your thinking caps, forget your political affiliations, sentiments and possible servitude to any godfather or pay master. Let’s think of this scenario that happened in a family of a man with two adulterous wives. Unknown to their husband, his wives were united in extra – marital affairs. They […]
Blaming Igbos for Northern Drug Abuse? Shame on Bala Muhammad.
Nausea And Vomiting is a side effect of reading rubbish talk. I feel like vomiting right now after reading Bala Muhammad accuse a tribe of knowingly and deliberately bringing codeine addiction to the north. There are idiots in every tribe and religion. My problem with the North is that their idiots are the educated ones. […]
Danjuma’s Fire And The Traitors in Aso Rock
By George Makeri The Traitors in power have contracted a phoney personality by the name Prince Raymond Enero to create a phantom group Middle Belt Conscience Guard to threaten and blackmail Lieutenant General T. Y. Danjuma over his recent speech of ‘defend yourselves or you will all die’. Already, we heard that critics like myself are […]