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Jul

13

2023

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TUNDE RAHMAN: Rugged Pro Gets His Due

Entertainment, Media, Opinion

By TUNDE OLUSUNLE Non-initiates marvel at the peculiarity of the rapprochement which subsists between media practitioners, even when they differ in opinions and even political disposition. My very good friend and brother Segun Ayobolu served as Media Adviser to Bola Tinubu now President, when the latter was governor of Lagos State. Within the period, I was engaged in the Olusegun Obasanjo/Atiku Abubakar government, handling various briefs. Even at the height of the antagonism between the Lagos State Government and the Federal Government following the stoppage of remittance to the accounts of the Lagos government by the Obasanjo/Atiku milieu, the relationship…

Jul

13

2023

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Before Alaigbo Becomes A Wasteland

Opinion

By IKECHUKWU AMAECHI Yesterday, July 12, my secondary school classmate who lives in Germany sent me yet another sit-at-home notice from Simon Ekpa, the self-nominated Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government-in-Exile (BRGIE). Dated July 11, 2023, the notice read in part: “Following the demand by the Biafra people for more sit at home civil disobedience, the Biafra Republic Government-in-Exile (BRGIE) and Biafra De facto Government-in-Homeland wish to notify Biafrans that there will be sit-at-home civil disobedience starting from 31st July 2023 to 14th August 2023.” Claiming that Ndigbo want to continue sitting at home is a lie from the…

Jul

07

2023

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Mmesoma: What Really Happened?

Opinion

Mmesoma made the regrettable error of climbing the tree of her ambition beyond the leaf. And sadly, she has landed where there’s no road to medicine or pharmacy and she cannot continue to double down. Life is not over. With help, she can rise again. By Azu Ishiekwene I’m not sure what breaks the heart more: her insistence on her innocence or the prospects of a future that now hangs in the balance. For a young adult with a promising future, the emerging facts only suggest one thing: it doesn’t rain, it pours. Mmesoma Ejikeme was one of the numerous…

Jun

30

2023

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Ruminations On Tinubu’s First 30 Days At The Helm

Opinion

By TUNDE OLUSUNLE Whether the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a substantive one or a "placeholder" to deploy a new addition to Nigeria's electoral lexicon, will be decided by the courts in the land. He was declared winner of the Saturday February 25, 2023 presidential election by Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC). Two of the 18 political parties which participated in the poll and their candidates have since challenged the proclamation of Tinubu as true and authentic victor in that contest. The Peoples' Democratic Party, (PDP) and its presidential candidate, former Vice President…

Jun

25

2023

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In Owerri, Nigerian Editors Repudiated The Idiocy Of Identity Politics

Media, Opinion

By IKECHUKWU AMAECHI It is no longer news that the just concluded national bi-annual convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, which held in Owerri, Imo State capital, produced Eze Anaba, editor of the Vanguard newspaper as the new president. In the next two years, he and 15 other officers will run the affairs of the elite club of Nigerian editors. It is not going to be an easy task but editors are confident that the Anaba-led team will deliver. It turned out to be a Guild election like no other, with difficulties more fundamental than the normal schism…

Jun

25

2023

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Senator Bulkachuwa vs Justice Bulkachuwa Shines Light On Judiciary

Opinion, Politics

By IKEDDY ISIGUZOA Major Commentator on Minor lssues NOTHING is wrong about spouses sharing confidences which should normally be private. Everything is wrong with such marital bonds where they result in possible intentional mis-carriage of justice. Still worse, is when one of the parties brags about his interference with judiciary processes as an achievement to be celebrated at the valedictory session of the Senate. Senator Adamu Muhammad Bulkachuwa chose 10 June 2023, his last day of representing Bauchi North, to thank his wife, and remind some of his colleagues that his wife assisted them. He would have said more if…

Jun

11

2023

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Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu And The New Ohaneze Leadership: A New Dawn Beckons

Opinion

By Deacon MALACHY CHUMA OCHIE, Ph.D Since the emergence of Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Iwuanyanwu, CFR, OFR, MFR (Ahaejiagamba of Igboland) as the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo a few months ago, there has been a potpourri of reactions from across Igboland. While some fault the process of his emergence, a lot more others applaud his emergence as the best thing that has happened to Ndigbo at this critical moment in Nigeria’s history. It will be recalled that on April 20, 2023, Chief Iwuanyanwu was pronounced as the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. His emergence was consequent upon the invocation of the principle…

Jun

11

2023

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The Okun-For-Governor Conundrum in Kogi State

Opinion

By TUNDE OLUSUNLE For leaders, statesmen and constituents of the Okun-Yoruba sociocultural bloc in Kogi State, the last few weeks have been characterised by a flurry of consultations and interactions, meetings and engagements. At the core of these dialogues has been the unfulfilled desire of the Okun people of the state which lies ensconced at the very heart of the North Central state, to lead the multicultural geopolity. Created by the administration of Nigeria's former military President, Ibrahim Babangida on the sixth anniversary of his government, August 27, 1991, Kogi State is a bouquet of curious complexities. It is arguably…

Jun

06

2023

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Iwuanyanwu And New Ohaneze Leadership: A New Dawn For Ndigbo

Opinion

By MALACHY CHUMA OCHIE, PhD Since the emergence of Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Iwuanyanwu, CFR, OFR, MFR (Ahaejiagamba of Igboland) as the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo a few months ago, there has been a potpourri of reactions from across Igboland. While some fault the process of his emergence, a lot more others applaud his emergence as the best thing that has happened to Ndigbo at this critical moment in Nigeria’s history. It will be recalled that on April 20, 2023, Chief Iwuanyanwu was pronounced as the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. His emergence was consequent upon the invocation of the principle of…

May

30

2023

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Buhari’s Toothache And A Nation In Its Death Throes

Opinion

By CHIDO ONUMAH General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) left office on May 29 after eight uneventful years. We hope it is the last time we hear from a man who rode to power eight years ago promising to end insecurity, strengthen the economy and fight corruption, none of which he achieved. Thankfully, he has vowed not to intervene in our national life and expressed his willingness to disappear to Niger Republic if we request accountability after almost a decade of ruinous leadership. It is a fitting testament to the leadership calamity of the past eight years that Gen. Buhari (retd.) was…