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Edo 2024: Another Problem Coming (APC), By Erasmus Ikhide

TWO days ago, I coined an appropriate acronym for the All Progressives Congress – “Another Problem Coming” – to the chagrin of the party’s media handlers, invoking the trauma of unrelenting tragedy APC/Tinubu administration foisted the nation, while employing uncanny…

Nigeria Republic of Palliatives – Alms/Zakat A New Model For State Governance, By Ogbebor Uyi

THE Nigeria government formulation/design and use of palliatives as economic policies, fashioned in the form of a religious obligation beats every known economic and financial theorems, as no economy can survive, evolve or develop based on economic/political handouts. Almsgiving/Zakat is…

Olubusola Oluwaferanmi: A Daring Healer And Prophetess Charts Her Trajectories In Life, By Sylvanus Odion

  According to the American poet, singer, autobiographer, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou, “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” Angelou, indeed, inspires humanity with both the uncommon beauty and the call to action of her words….

Minimum Wage, Maximum Rage (Part 1), By Prof Mike Ozekhome, SAN, CON, OFR, PhD

INTRODUCTION Nigerian president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on 18th July, 2024, in the presence of NLC president, Joe Ajaero and TUC president, Festus Osifo, approved a minimum wage of 70 thousand Naira for every Nigerian worker. He also promised to review…

Nigeria Protest And The President’s Plea for a Prorogue, By Bala Ibrahim

As the hands of the clock tick towards the first day of August, the hearts of many Nigerians, particularly the patriotic ones, are beating, or breathing with short, and in some cases quick breaths, for reasons that have bearing with…

Edo 2024: The Tragedy of Shaibu’s Fake Court Ruling, By Osagie Imasogie

Yesterday, several social media platforms were awash with an Appeal Court Ruling where Philip Shaibu was claimed to have secured a pre-election matter victory over Dr Asue Ighodalo on a case bothering voters card forgery. I laughed so much. The…

Malam Isa Gusau, I want to speak with you

Today is yet another birthday of a mentor and brother, Mal Isa Gusau, though it has been six months since his death. On a day like this, we all, his associates, celebrate him with all kinds of encomium, social media…

Sen. Bala Muhammed: Governor From Triumph of Reason, By Sanusi Muhammad

It may sound a revisit of the past in view of the eventual formation of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet to revisit some contentious issues in our body polity with specific reference to the interrogation of political tolerance and its…

Memories from Childhood, By Elempe Dele

  Growing up in what can be qualified as a proper home, I still reflect on those times now I am making and gathering mine, not with the kind of success my parents did it in those days. Homemaking was…

Will Tinubu Survive Looming Hunger Protest? By Erasmus Ikhide

  Disillusioned Nigerian masses feeling the pang of economic crunch occasioned by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s wrongheaded economic blueprints and fuel subsidy removal are already throwing spit into the air and collecting it with their face over the looming hunger…