America’s Self-Sabotage: Confronting the Toll of Gun Violence, by Osmund Agbo
On the night of April 28, 2023, in Cleveland Texas, a sleepy community, 50 miles north of where my family and I live, bullet-riddled bodies […]
Column/Opinion
My random thoughts on the tyranny of the majority, by Dan Agbese
In one of his more lucid moments, President Goodluck Jonathan said that democracy is work in progress. It may sound like a cliché but it […]
Fallacies of religion, no-man’s land, and why Nigeria is unbreakable (2), by Hassan Gimba
“We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato […]
High noon in Adamawa, by Nick Dazang
The expression, “high noon”, refers to the “time of a decisive confrontation or contest.” It also refers to a defining moment or climax:”an event or […]
10th National Assembly: Before it is too late, by Majeed Dahiru
The simmering tension in Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress over the composition of the leadership of the next [10th] National Assembly, which is expected to […]
Of Ramadan, You be thief, and Pantami: A mix
This is a repeat as it was first published two years ago, precisely on 19/04/2021. Has anything changed? The reader should say. Ramadan is a […]
Election aftermath: Unholy alliances and strange bedfellows, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
In politics, there are no permanent friends and foes, and it will be naïve of me to expect otherwise in the build up to the […]
Time to relocate Maiduguri Monday Market, by 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 […]
Trump and the law, by Nick Dazang
On Tuesday, last week, former President Donald Trump was indicted on thirty four counts for allegedly falsifying business records and conspiracy for roles in hush […]
The faceless and the reckless, by Dan Agbese
Let me begin this piece with the obvious. These are trying times for our country. Tensions are rising and heating up the polity. Transitional general […]
Yobe, the state of party chairman, by Hassan Gimba
This is not what I had intended to discuss this week, but circumstances have given it priority. Yobe is a state that is blessed. Here, […]
2023 election: Voices lost in chaos, by Osmund Agbo
Chaos and noise, Voices lost poise, Violence unrestrained, Change obstructed. Rigging and fraud, Will of people ignored, Leadership hijacked, Future brutally sacked. Weeping people,Torn dreams, […]
Fallacies of religion, no-man’s land, and why Nigeria is unbreakable (1)
One of the factors that determined the just concluded elections in Nigeria is religion. Oh, agreed, in our politics, religion has always been a factor […]
For Tinubu’s eyes only, by Dan Agbese
This is the interregnum, the period between an out-going administration and its in-coming successor when there is usually a feeling of both hollowness and animated […]
I hear the Supreme Court of Nigeria, by Dan Agbese
It is just as well that less than 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari denied that he instructed the attorney-general of the federal and minister […]