Opinion - Page 214

The Neo-black Challenge: Must blacks be ruled by others in order to prosper? asks Joseph Agbakoba

Nigeria just celebrated her 64th year of independence and it was a gloomy day for most Nigerians. This was captured very well in a scathing editorial by the Punch newspaper. The paper recounted the consequences of state capture by a coarse, brutal,

October 7, 2024

Opinion

Monday Lines – We beg bread, they belch beer By Lasisi Olagunju

Are Nigerians hungry because they’ve been drinking too much free beer and now the brewery is bankrupt? I ask because President Bola Ahmed Tinubu waxed rhetorical Thursday last week as he dissected the very bad hunger wracking his country and its more

September 23, 2024

Law & Society·Opinion

Defence Minister, EFCC Chairman deserve national awards of excellence, by Ikeddy ISIGUZO

MINISTER of Defence Bello Matawalle and Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Olanipekun Olukoyede are appointees of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration whose exceptional performances qualify for national awards of excellence for notably extraordinary service. National Day, 1 October,

September 22, 2024

Opinion·Politics

How Country? (2024), by Chidi Amuta

It is that time of the year again for our ritual roadside assessment of the state of the nation from the perspective of the common folk. It is the last quarter of the year, that time of the year when nearly every

September 22, 2024

Opinion·Politics

Unmasking Tinubu’s government of NADECO veterans, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

When Major-General Muhammadu Buhari overthrew the elected civilian administration of President Shehu Shagari on the last day of 1983, he inherited an economy in a mess and a political system in a turmoil. This crisis of a dysfunctional political economy was Buhari’s

September 22, 2024

Opinion·Politics

News Analysis | Edo Decides: A chronicle of peaceful off-cycle poll amidst tight security

By USMAN ALIYU The highly anticipated off-cycle election for the governorship seat of Edo came up on Saturday with 17 candidates jostling to occupy the Government House at the Osadebey avenue in Benin. There are, however, three major candidates in the race,

September 21, 2024

Arts & Culture·Opinion

Arts & Culture: On the famous Mkpokiti Dance, by Etodike

Mkpokiti Dance was founded in 1959 by the late Chief Festus Okoli Nwankwo of Ugwunano village of Umunze in Orumba Local Government Area of present day Anambra State in the defunct Eastern Region. In 1970, immediately after the genocidal civil war, all

September 21, 2024

Business & Economy·Opinion

NOTES FROM ATLANTA: Conspiracy of price gouging between Dangote and NNPCL, by Farooq A. Kperogi

I had said to myself and to people close to me that I would never write again on the untenably rising prices of petrol in Nigeria because when I wrote column after column to presage the unfolding petrol-price-inspired cost-of-living tragedy, scores of

September 21, 2024

Health·Opinion

Hon Minister Pate: Don’t burn bridges after crossing them, by Osmund Agbo

As I sat in the pew on that brisk October day, I found myself among roughly thirty graduates in the class of ’97 from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Medical School. We were undergoing the solemn induction ceremony conducted by the Nigerian Medical and

September 20, 2024

Opinion·Politics

Ahead Saturday, September 21: Will ‘Edo be Lagos’ in 2024? by Ike Abonyi

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty” – Thomas Jefferson In 2020, Governor Godwin Obaseki gave a stern response to Bola Ahmad Tinubu’s desire to return Edo state to the All Progressives Congress, APC saying to him bluntly that ‘Edo no be

September 19, 2024

Opinion·Politics

Edo governorship poll: Only justice will guarantee peace, by Ikechukwu Amaechi

Edo governorship poll: What is needed in Edo State on Saturday is a level playing field. Let the sovereign will of the people expressed through the ballot box prevail. The only thing that can guarantee peace is free, fair and credible poll,

September 19, 2024

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Opinion - Page 214

The Neo-black Challenge: Must blacks be ruled by others in order to prosper? asks Joseph Agbakoba

Monday Lines – We beg bread, they belch beer By Lasisi Olagunju

Defence Minister, EFCC Chairman deserve national awards of excellence, by Ikeddy ISIGUZO

How Country? (2024), by Chidi Amuta

Unmasking Tinubu’s government of NADECO veterans, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

News Analysis | Edo Decides: A chronicle of peaceful off-cycle poll amidst tight security

Arts & Culture: On the famous Mkpokiti Dance, by Etodike

NOTES FROM ATLANTA: Conspiracy of price gouging between Dangote and NNPCL, by Farooq A. Kperogi

Hon Minister Pate: Don’t burn bridges after crossing them, by Osmund Agbo

Ahead Saturday, September 21: Will ‘Edo be Lagos’ in 2024? by Ike Abonyi

Edo governorship poll: Only justice will guarantee peace, by Ikechukwu Amaechi

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