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Viewpoint: Re: Where is Kano going to?
By Muhammad Garba
My attention was drawn to an opinion article in the Guardian of Tuesday, September 8, 2020 authored by a veteran journalist, Ray Ekpu titled: ‘’Where is Kano going to?’’ Mr. Ekpu is a respected journalist in…
For the records: BETWEEN ‘DIVIDERS-IN-CHIEF’ and DIVIDERS-IN-LAW
By Wole Soyinka
I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect with other past leaders of the crumbling edifice that is still generously called Nigeria. I have no reasons to…
Viewpoint: HEROES AND VILLAINS OF POLITICS (PART 1)
WHO ARE THE REAL ENEMIES?
By Chike Onwe PhD
It is generally agreed that an enemy is a person or group, real or imagined, considered to be adverse or threatening. The ability to identify ones adversary in any given…
Viewpoint: The rains, flooding and Sadiya Umar Farouk’s warning
There is an Igbo saying which I became aware of when I was serving in Nanka, Anambra state. It goes thus: “you do not have to shout to tell a blind man that war has broken out!”
But there are always exceptions to that rule and…
Viewpoint: Ikpeazu: Aba, history and posterity
by Ben Udechukwu
When the history of Aba will be written Okezie Victor Ikpeazu Ph.D will be reserved a pride of place. This is not so much for recovering the city in phases, it will be for his deliberate, frank and concerted…
Viewpoint: PDP 2023, ZONING AND WIKE’S WEIRD WINNING FORMULA
By Law Mefor
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
–George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905
The riding quotation is an apt counsel from a celebrated thinker, George Santayana, who, at the age of 48, left…
Viewpoint: Enugu killings of IPOB Members
By Obi Aguocha
My heart grieves with sadness as my attention is drawn to the recent incessant clashes between members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and security agents which has again led to deaths of many citizens in Emene,…
Viewpoint: El-Rufai’s Humiliation and Mamman Daura’s Curious London Trip
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
The rescission of the invitation extended to Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak at the annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) as a consequence of sustained social…
Viewpoint: Let’s tell Arthur Eze the Inconvenient Truth
By Ngwu Nweze
If Ndigbo do not tell Arthur Eze that money is not everything, he will destroy whatever value is left in Igboland. The self-acclaimed Igbo Messiah (Ozo Igbo Ndu) has become a most irritating pain in the neck of…
Samuel Okwaraji: A Football Gen lost during National Service
By Wale Williams
On this day, the 12th of August in 1989, one of Nigeria's sporting horrors happened. The nation lost a rare gem in former Super Eagles midfielder, Samuel Sochukwuma Okwaraji on the field of Play.
The Green Eagles of…