Déjà-vu in Nigeria
Prof. Wole Soyinka, By Wole Soyinka When I returned from abroad just over a week ago, an extraordinary welcome gift awaited me. It was a movement – sometimes angry, sometimes rousing and moving, sometimes shrill,…
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Lagos Massacre 20-10-2020: The murderers must be brought to justice
Comrade Owei Lakemfa. By Owei Lakemfa Vibrant, patriotic Nigerian youths were hunted and shot like rabbits by young soldiers on diets of APC, brainwashed to shoot even their mothers. They were led by officers who…
EndSARS, StartSWAT, labour and a wrinkled leadership
Comrade Owei Lakemfa. By Owei Lakemfa The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, thinks Nigerian youths are lazy and want to be spoon-fed like babies. Some other arms of the country’s wrinkled…
PERSPECTIVE – #ENDSARS: The ‘Nigeria Youth’ reset
Sonala Olumhense Every Nigerian has a terrible police story. The disbanded rogue Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was only one of its elements, and it is fitting that it was buried by the #ENDSARS initiative of…
PERSPECTIVE – Understanding APC’s indigestion
Sonala Olumhense I quote the 2014 Manifesto of Nigeria’s ruling party (APC): “Since the historic merger that resulted in the birth of the All Progressives Congress, APC in July 2013, our intention has been to…
PERSPECTIVE – Holding the centre in Accra
Comrade Owei Lakemfa. By Owei Lakemfa Chukwuemeka Nnaji, the President of the Nigeria Union of Traders in Ghana was a pitiful sight last week as he made a passionate appeal to the Nigerian government to…
PERSPECTIVE – Nigeria and Ghana: A great past in search of a future
Comrade Owei Lakemfa. By Owei Lakemfa MAKING a choice to travel while the COVID-19 pandemic is still ravaging the world, is a difficult art. However, when the National Association of Nigerian Students, Ghana Chapter and…
Nigeria’s future depends on our commitment to a common destiny
Atiku Abubakar. By Atiku Abubakar On Saturday, 26 September, 2020 in far away Abu Dhabi, Israel Adesanya, an illustrious Nigerian, who embodies the indefatigable Nigerian spirit made the nation proud by successfully defending his UFC…
INTERVIEW – No going back on Oduduwa Republic – Prof. Banji Akintoye; says calls for Nigeria’s breakup not treasonable
Prof. Banji Akintoye. Eminent scholar and President of Yoruba World Congress, Prof. Banji Akintoye has declared that agitation for self-determination is a legitimate struggle, and not an act of treasonable felony as the federal government…
PERSPECTIVE – UN at 75 holds lots of hope and hopelessness
Comrade Owei Lakemfa. By Owei Lakemfa The United Nations, UN, commenced activities marking its 75th Anniversary on Monday, September 21, buoyed with floods of mainly congratulatory speeches in a world drenched in increasing despair and…