Tag: TheNEWS/P.M.NEWS
Cult Of Jesus And The War In Warri
By Osuolale Alalade It is much simpler to see the advent of the Maitatsine and its contemporaneous expression in Boko…
The Politics Of Headcounts In Nigeria
By Kanayo Esinulo What I have done this week is merely to reproduce, word for word, without any editing whatsoever,…
Emergency Proclamation: So Far So Good
By Chris Olukolade Boko Haram, a religious sect which had emerged by taking advantage of democracy–the system of government which…
Dance Of The Penguin
By Ademola Adegbamigbe Any country that wants to be great technologically and economically cannot afford to joke with university education.…
Immortality
By Ademola Adegbamigbe Kenya does not have oil. Tourism is, apart from coffee, its own hydrocarbon. It is quite unfortunate…
The Martyrs
By Sola Adela Now Mustapha is free at last, the public wants to know how and who will compensate the…
Between Man And Beast
By Ademola Adegbamigbe I was an undergraduate visiting Lagos in the 1980s when I experienced my first culture shock. That…
Al-Mustapha Should Shut Up
By Ola Balogun In general, most citizens of Nigeria are peace-loving and law-abiding. Although we actually know better, for the…
Waiting For Africa To Emerge
By Adebayo Lamikanra Ebenezer Obadare is never likely to forget the first time we sat down to hold an intellectual…
Cannon Fodder
By Ademola Adegbamigbe As a reporter with Tempo in the early 1990s, during the military era (may Nigeria never experience…
How Asari-Dokubo Became A Big Man
By Ebenezer Obadare A while ago, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo’s visceral defence of the Jonathan regime against all real and perceived enemies…
Opeyemi Bamidele’s Selective Amnesia
By Abiola Olufemi In a democratic dispensation, anyone has a right to aspire to any political office insofar as he…
Obafemi Awolowo: Knowledge, Leadership, Governance
By Olúfémi Táíwò Something significant happened two weeks ago in Ikogosi-Ekiti. A state government, at the suggestion and under the…
A Combatant’s Chronicle Of The Nigeria–Biafra War
By Kunle Ajibade It is quite thoughtful that General Godwin Alabi–Isama has chosen Nelson Mandela’s birthday to present his book,…