PERSPECTIVE – Osun: Election year prayer in troubled times
By Abiodun Komolafe The Year 2022 is here and Nigerians have a reason to praise the Lord for bringing us this far. While thanking God for His mercy, let’s go straight to say that the…
Category: Opinion
PERSPECTIVE – A life of laughter and commitment ends as Tutu departs.
By Owei Lakemfa In its darkest days when the evil Apartheid system reigned, South Africa produced two outstanding liberation theologians who were burning torches in a country enveloped in darkness. In 1982 when Apartheid was rebuilding its…
Okowa wields the big stick, sacks Fred Oghenesivbe for improper conduct of recklessness, insubordination
For improper conduct of "manifest recklessness and insurbodination", Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has relieved his Executive Assistant (Communication), Mr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe of his appointment. The letter of the sack of the (EAC)…
PERSPECTIVE – The acquisition of Union Bank
By ETIM ETIM The news of the acquisition of of the 102-year-old Union Bank by a two-year-old Titan Bank has gripped national attention as 2021 draws to a close. It seems to be the exciting…
PERSPECTIVE – Okowa not interested in fighting anybody
BY Dr. FESTUS BOMO PATANI The recent write up by one Dr. Ejikeme Alphonsus Chukwuemika (@chukwuemika@gmail.com), titled: "THE OKOWA XMAS GATHERING AT OWA ALERO - Demigod On Stilt Against A King David", is not only…
PERSPECTIVE – Ode to a dying year, 2021
By Owei Lakemfa Many parts of the universe entered 2021 with the contentment that President Donald Trump, the American billionaire whose many crooked business deals also saw him to the White House, was leaving in…
E. K. Clark’s open letter to Obasanjo (Full text)
AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY, CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, GCFR, FORMER PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA By Chief (Dr.) E. K. Clark, OFR, CON Your Excellency, MY DISAPPOINTMENT OVER YOUR UNPROVOKED OUTBURST AGAINST…
PERSPECTIVE – How we roll in Nigeria.
By Owei Lakemfa Daurans. That is, people from President Muhammadu Buhari’s home town of Daura in Katsina State, are a lucky people. Their son, on December 17, while marking his 79th birthday in Erdogan’s Turkey,…
2023 and Kalu’s recipe for APC’s survival
By Ehichioya Ezomon Will the All Progressives Congress (APC) implode in 2022, as consistently predicted by critics of the ruling party, and especially by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)? The auguries look frightening…
PERSPECTIVE – The ideology of the goat.
By Owei Lakemfa FOUR foreigners identified as diplomats leaving Botswana on November 11, 2021 tested positive to what turned out to be a new variant of COVID-19 which has now come to be identified…