Opinion

BY ABRAHAM OGBODO Dear Waziri, Last week, I ended on a hopeful note. That, it is possible to dispatch Caesar for Rome to remain a real Republic. I added that the conspirators would only need to bring on board, a Brutus to strengthen the conspiracy beyond collapse. I promised also to do you a personal letter to explain better. I am therefore writing today to inform you that you are the Brutus that must come on board to give oxygen to the conspiracy to take out the Emperor on the ides of 2027. You may not strictly fit into the…

By OREVA GODWIN I know, the first instinct of most of my dearest readers, in reaction to the question of whether women are weaker vessels may be in the affirmative. After all, the Bible calls women the "weaker vessel." But today, I want to challenge that idea and to postulate that women are not inherently weak. Rather, they’ve been programmed to be seen as weak, so they don't rise to compete with men. When did God call women weaker vessels? Never. The Creator has never called them weak. Why? Because we were all made in His image and likeness, and…

FESTUS ADEDAYO At the risk of being labeled thanatophobic - a preoccupation with death or its anxiety - the grim reality is that, last Tuesday, Nigeria’s music world would have lost veteran Yoruba Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde. Being Muslim, it is in order to say the man popularly known as KWAM 1 would have been buried same Tuesday or early Wednesday. He would have been killed over a mere tiff with an airline official over allegation of carrying liquour on board an aircraft. There is no grimmer way of putting the potential calamity than this. It is a signpost of…

NEWS ANALYSIS By TONY ONYIMA, Ph.D. The recent closure of Badeggi Radio in Niger State by Governor Mohammed Umar Bago has reignited a fundamental national conversation around press freedom and the limits of executive power in a democratic state. The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has condemned the governor’s action in unequivocal terms, describing it as “a blatant attack on press freedom and democracy.” Beyond the headlines, however, the incident reveals a more profound unease with how public office holders relate to independent media, and it raises urgent questions about the protection of constitutional rights under Nigeria’s democratic dispensation. At…

FUNKE EGBEMODE I was scrolling through Facebook and I stumbled on this yet-to-be-verified ‘data’. Elumelu’s mom is 97 years. Otedola’s mom is 93 years. Jonathan’s mom is 88 years. Dangote’s mom is 90 years. Where are their fathers? Long gone in most cases. Did you notice the unsaid and unwritten insinuation that the women are somehow at fault and should be found guilty of ‘long life’? But I won’t let the insinuation distract me, after all, my father has celebrated his 90th birthday and my mother died five years ago. There are men who are also 95 whose wives died…

INTIMATE AFFAIRS with FUNKE EGBEMODE For a woman, sex is not just physical. It is much deeper. Her orgasm is not just about reaching the peak of pleasure. It is about peaking happily and happily peaking. And for her to be roused and aroused, the arouser must be more than physically fit. He must be to her more than a warm and solid body. It is good for a man to be loaded downstairs but it is even better and more effective for him to be the man in whom she is truly pleased. That is why each time I…

BY ABRAHAM OGBODO It is like no lesson was learnt. I had expected that after the demise of former President Muhammadu Buhari and the reviews that followed, chronicling the hollowness of a life without impact, and how his departure would not leave behind sweet memories, subsisting political actors would be wise. This is not the case. In Psychology, there is something called Constitutional Theory of Personality, or simply, Constitutional Psychology. It seeks to project the personality from the physique. It says, in characterisation and social ranking, there is a correlation between what is seen and what is hidden. Almost like…