Opinion

By IKEDDY ISIGUZO THE constitutional aberration last Thursday in which an indeterminate number of the National Assembly members ousted the provisions of the Constitution to please President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a reckless step in democracy worsened by the intentionality of its execution.Section 305 of the Constitution interprets a state of emergency as a situation of “national danger, disaster or terrorist attacks in which a government suspends normal constitutional procedures to regain control.” There are parts of Nigeria that meet these conditions. Did the President impose a state of emergency? The President has the constitutional power to declare a state…

By OREVA GODWIN What is witchcraft? It is the practice of sorcery, black magic, or the use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events. For Christians, witchcraft is highly condemned. Deuteronomy 18:10-11 of the Bible states: "Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead". Relatedly, Exodus 22:18 says, "You shall not tolerate a sorceress", while Leviticus 20:27 states: "A man or a woman who has a…

By AZU ISHIEKWENE President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s proclamation of emergency rule in Rivers State on Tuesday surprised me for reasons different from those for which he has been severely criticised. The mildest criticism is that Tinubu’s failure to call the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to order was responsible for the crisis. The more severe criticisms range from accusations that the president has subverted constitutional rule to charges of potential destabilisation at the behest of Wike. A common point of agreement is that a civilian president should never have to declare emergency rule. That is the ideal. But…

By Ejeh Josh Born March 17, 1972, Governor of Enugu State, Dr Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, has continued to receive encomiums from Nigerians, especially among his people, as he marks his 53rd birthday anniversary. Different sections of the society are pouring in their tributes, describing the young governor as a man of many qualities, shattering the barriers of leadership and doing the seemingly impossible through his mantra of disruptive innovation which he introduced into governance. “He has done it before. He did it in the private sector, where he disrupted the supply chain of the downstream sub-sector of the oil and…

By Martins Oloja ‘There is fire on the mountainAnd nobody seems to be on the runOh, there is fire on the mountain topAnd no one is a-running I wake up in the morningTell you what I see on my TV screenI see the blood of an innocent child and everybody's watchingNow I'm looking out my windowAnd what do I see?I see an army of a soldier man marching across the street, heyHey, Mr. Soldier manTomorrow is the day you go to warBut you are fighting for another man's cause and you don't even know himOooh, what did he say to…

By Sulaimon Olanrewaju Family dynamics is a subset of group dynamics. The term group dynamics was coined by a socio-psychologist, Kurt Lewin, in 1945. Group dynamics is the interplay of the behaviours, attitude and aptitude of members of a group and the effects of these on members of the group as well as the actualization of group goals. Family is the smallest social unit. Family is a group of persons related by blood, marriage or adoption. According to Burgess and Locke in their 1945 work, The Family: From Institution to Companionship, “Family consists of a single household, interacting and intercommunicating…

By OREVA GODWIN Politics is a crazy and sometimes, deadly game. It can make or destroy you. Machiavelli wrote in his book, "The Prince" that "it is better, for a Prince to be feared, than to be loved". A lot of humans function by fear and not love. Politics is like an arena of gladiators; only the strong wins. The game is full of strength, Machiavellianism et al. For women, it's a different kind of game altogether. You have to fight with your fellow women that are in constant competition with themselves and the male folk. Of course, most of…

By Nusrat Lasisi, aka NusratDReteller The happy International Women's Day messages have filled the air, and numerous well-wishers have followed the trend of messaging every woman they know. But I refuse to be swayed by this faux display of solidarity for women. In the same week leading to International Women's Day, something extraordinary happened to a woman in the Senate. Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from Kogi accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio, who has been accused of similar sexual abuse, of sexual harassment. And what did she get for speaking up? She was suspended for six months while the accused remains in…