People in Action
So vivacious that dying dramatically in a matter of 15 hours was out of the minds of anybody around her – family, friends and colleagues. But that was what happened by 1:05 a.m on February 2... Read more
As stressed as the popular space and its culture is from the impacts of insecurity and an excessively weak state, it has not lost its capacity for creativity in bringing humour to tension. O... Read more
By Tunde Akanni, PhD For my former colleague at Concord Press, now a young grandma, Patience Akpan, every child or grandchild of hers is her favourite. The scintillatingly beauteous and fash... Read more
There is no doubt about it that Nigeria’s Society for Peace Studies and Practice, (SPSP) is yet to establish itself in terms of what might be reckoned with as cutting-edge practices. Notwith... Read more
It must be that there have been extremely low cases of women in the sort of crime that attracts capital punishment. That can be the only explanation for why whether women are ever hanged or... Read more
Nigeria’s share of unspeakable, humiliating horrors wears a gender face although ethno-regional representation of the entire crisis has drowned the gender perspective. But the more chilling... Read more
Dead people do not come back. That was Obi Oknkwo’s father in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease, protesting loudly when the elders said the returnee was a reincarnation of his grandfather or... Read more
It is turning out to be a wise saying that can probably not be over-used. That is the wisdom that the dead does not weep at his/her own funeral, popularised by the Tiv soloist on the air wav... Read more
Africa is mourning again and at the same time contemplating the future along Professor Ben Turok’s all time significant poser he raised more than 30 years ago in a book form: Africa: What Ca... Read more
We would not know now what he would do if and when he controls budget, police, INEC, etc as a governor, local government chairman or minister in the future. For now, however, he has passed t... Read more
