Opinion - Page 225

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·People & Places

The ATYAP and BAJJU Revolt: How a people’s struggles against oppression, subjugation by Zazzau Emirate sparked centuries of Southern Kaduna agony, by EMMANUEL GANDU

The crisis in Southern Kaduna, the predominantly non-Muslim area of Kaduna State, did not start today. Accompanied by killings and destruction, it is a centuries-old struggle by a people to protect their way or life from total take-over and subjugation by Jihadists,

November 9, 2024

Opinion·Politics

The return of Donald Trump, by Daniel McCarthy

Donald Trump is returning to the White House, and while this will not change what most critics think of him, it should compel them to take a close look in the mirror. They lost this election as much as Mr. Trump

November 8, 2024

Opinion·Politics

Unusual reasons Africa wanted Trump to win, by Azu Ishiekwene

I understand wealthy US citizens and conservatives of the evangelical hue rooting for Donald Trump. The rich believe he would loosen regulations and protect them and their businesses from excessive taxation. Conservative evangelicals believe he is the bulwark against wokeism, especially the

November 8, 2024

Opinion

How the Roman Empire collapsed: The American exemplar

By Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu As a scholar of classical antiquity and history of political thought, I believe I am well positioned to situate the current debacle in America with the eventual unraveling of the Roman Republic which was once the greatest democracy on

November 7, 2024

Opinion·Politics

BIANCA OJUKWU: ‘Because Ndigbo are involved’, by IKE ABONYI

“For unity to be meaningful, it has to be creative, not the unity of Jonah in the whale but the unity of holy matrimony. The first can only lead to defecation, the second to procreation”- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. In 1989 the late

November 7, 2024

Opinion·Politics

The DAILY QUERY Politics with Felix Oguejiofor Abugu: Downstream sector oil politics messy, messier still because oil minister enjoying it?

It was former Nigerian Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida who, in an answer to a question as to why he would rarely step back from a course of action he had taken while he was Head of State, despite criticisms, quipped:

November 7, 2024

Opinion

Tinubu: Two ministers to South-East, 12 to South-West; By Steve Osuji

WE THOUGHT BUHARI HATED IGBO: Ndigbo believed the immediate past president, Muhammadu Buhari hated them. He did. He does. As number one, he showed it; he proved it and he virtually said it with such Freudian slips like, “dot in a

November 7, 2024

Opinion

Smile of a Goat by Bode Ekundayo (PhD)

One day, I shall smile and laugh, flashing my teeth like humans Wait a minute, why do humans laugh, yanking their varied teeth… those teeth of variegated greeds of rotten gums and dental caries? Do you know why? One day, I

November 7, 2024

Opinion

NEWS ANALYSIS: Donald J. Trump’s re-election and implications for democracy in Nigeria, other lands

by FELIX OGUEJIOFOR ABUGU Donald Trump won his first presidential election (2017 -2021) on the strength of his promise to ‘Make America Great Again (MAGA)’, “at first a reference to some mythologized national past but now, in 2024, a nod to

November 6, 2024

Opinion

NEWS ANALYSIS: Taoreed Lagbaja’s passing rekindles debate about morality, constitutionality of keeping Nigeria’s public officers’ health issues secret

Is life in these parts always about politics and the maxim advantage it confers on wielders of power? Must Nigeria continue to be defined by these same self-destructive politics of nepotism and eternal quest for regional hegemony that have been identified

November 6, 2024

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Opinion - Page 225

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

The ATYAP and BAJJU Revolt: How a people’s struggles against oppression, subjugation by Zazzau Emirate sparked centuries of Southern Kaduna agony, by EMMANUEL GANDU

The return of Donald Trump, by Daniel McCarthy

Unusual reasons Africa wanted Trump to win, by Azu Ishiekwene

How the Roman Empire collapsed: The American exemplar

BIANCA OJUKWU: ‘Because Ndigbo are involved’, by IKE ABONYI

The DAILY QUERY Politics with Felix Oguejiofor Abugu: Downstream sector oil politics messy, messier still because oil minister enjoying it?

Tinubu: Two ministers to South-East, 12 to South-West; By Steve Osuji

Smile of a Goat by Bode Ekundayo (PhD)

NEWS ANALYSIS: Donald J. Trump’s re-election and implications for democracy in Nigeria, other lands

NEWS ANALYSIS: Taoreed Lagbaja’s passing rekindles debate about morality, constitutionality of keeping Nigeria’s public officers’ health issues secret

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