CELEBRATION – 40 years of punditry
By Etim Etim The month of August is typically filled with celebrations in my household – a wedding anniversary and two birthdays; but this year, there’s additional reason for a drink. It is the 40th…
Category: Discourse
PERSPECTIVE – Days of rage when reason is treason
[caption id="attachment_23393" align="alignright" width="190"] Comrade Owei Lakemfa[/caption] By Owei Lakemfa The thuggish criminality in the United Kingdom exempted, mass protests have been sweeping through many countries with people standing up for their right to decent…
PRESS RELEASE – #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria Protest: Tinubu’s administration has adopted propaganda, misinformation and disinformation as a state policy
By Paul Ibe In the afternoon of Wednesday and on Day 7 of the #EndBadGivernanceInNigeria protest, the official X handle (formerly known as Twitter) of President Bola Tinubu posted a video clip of the President…
Aisha Yesufu mocks Tinubu over insinuations North is plotting against him for being a Southern President
By Dachen Isaac Political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has derided assertions from the presidency that the North is plotting against President Bola Tinubu because he is a Southern president. Following violence that erupted in some parts…
PERSPECTIVE – President Tinubu: A tyrant in the making
[caption id="attachment_15634" align="alignnone" width="283"] Prof. Farooq Kperogi.[/caption] By Farooq Kperogi President Tinubu’s self-serving speech–which basically sang his own praises, said he’d heard the people’s anguished cries but won’t do anything about the cries and then…
FOR THE RECORD – PRESS RELEASE: #EndBadGovernanceProtest: Tinubu’s speech is hollow, fails to address the hardship of Nigerians
President Bola Tinubu’s broadcast this morning, intended to quell the fervour of public protests against his administration's poor governance, utterly misses the mark. His speech neglects the pressing economic hardships that have besieged Nigerian families…
PERSPECTIVE – A rot underrated
[caption id="attachment_27741" align="alignright" width="300"] Mr. Pius Mordi[/caption] By Pius Mordi Ensconced within the luxury confines of the Villa, awash with trillions of naira the kind never seen before, Aso Rock and the National Assembly have…
PERSPECTIVE – Tinubu’s Livestock Ministry: Matters arising
By Tony Eke The creation of the Ministry of Livestock Development by the Tinubu administration may seem purposeful from the conceptual framework yet it's beguiling in every material classification. As noticeable since his emergence fourteen…
PERSPECTIVE – Ladi Olorunyomi: Thrice detained by Generals, exile was only option
[caption id="attachment_23393" align="alignright" width="190"] Comrade Owei Lakemfa.[/caption] By Owei Lakemfa THE first detention of Ladi Olorunyomi was in 1993 under the Babangida military regime. That regime had annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election, and…
PERSPECTIVE – Five lessons from the ongoing hunger protests
[caption id="attachment_28227" align="alignright" width="207"] An old woman joined in the hunger protest.[/caption] By Farooq A. Kperogi The nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests that are convulsing the neoliberal fundament of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration are redefining…