Opinion

By Yanis Varoufakis Amazon Web Services, owned by top three richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, posseses the basic infrastructure for other businesses to operate online, turning even governments into its serfs. But now some people are fighting back. For the past six years, every Black Friday – that made-up carnival of consumption – Amazon workers and their allies have mobilised across the world in coordinated strikes and protests. At first glance, these disputes look like the standard struggle between a giant capitalist employer and the people who keep it running. But Amazon is no ordinary corporation. It is…

By Hon. Aliu Asipita Abdulmulukuasipitamuluku25@gmail.com "Society is not built by individual morality but by the institutionalization of our collective morality and evolved values.. our political culture must shift at an individual level from those that seem to subjugate or demean the people as paupers to those values that see them as humans deserving of human dignity. That we shouldn't view them deserving of our pity but of their share of quality life offered by the potential of our common wealth that should be centrally pulled and deployed for their good." Quite often, we have become inundated with the terms "empowerment…

By Ikeddy ISIGUZO NO outrage. No shock. No anger as terrorists kill Brigadier-General Musa Uba in the North-East sector. Nigerians were processing that affront when news of terrorists' attack on worshippers at Christ Apostolic Church, CAC, Eruku in Kwara State during their church service. The attackers went away with 35 worshippers. They are asking for ransom of N100 million on each of them.By Monday, 25 students of Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, were abducted, their vice-principal, and a security guard were killed.The killing of Brigadier-General Uba, and the abductions of the female students, reeked of betrayal…

By Tayo Mabeweje Residents celebrate as long-neglected communities finally see modern roads, more projects coming across Ogun State. For years, the people of Akute, Ajuwon, and Alagbole journeyed through dust, potholes, and despair — a once-vibrant corridor reduced to a trail of hardship and lost opportunities. But on a bright afternoon in Ifo Local Government Area of the state, joy returned to the land. Songs rose, drums thundered, and hearts swelled with gratitude as Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, cut the ribbon that reopened their world to progress. The newly reconstructed Akute–Ajuwon–Alagbole road was not just asphalt and concrete;…

By Noo Saro-Wiwa Earlier this year, my father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and his eight colleagues, known collectively as the Ogoni Nine, were pardoned for a crime they never committed. After peacefully campaigning against environmental degradation of Ogoniland in Nigeria at the hands of the oil industry, they were imprisoned by the military dictatorship on false charges of treason and incitement to murder, following a trial condemned by the international community as a sham. On 10 November 1995, the men were executed by hanging. Thirty years on, the government of President Bola Tinubu granted a pardon to the Ogoni Nine. While our…