The machinery superintending the burial formalities for Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu is in place and cracking its way. Although concerned more with a major aspect of the rites of passage in Abuj... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja It is unlikely that anyone ever thought of Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu and Chief Audu Ogbeh dying within a space of less than three weeks of each other. Prof Elaigwu died on Jul... Read more
There is a way that writing about someone as Prof Ochapa Onazi (ahead of his burial on September 26/27, 2024) forces up the theory of the everyday which says that the socialisation of Idoma... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja This is one of the commonest phrases we hear or read from those who write. It is not clear why it is so freely used even when no truth claim has been able to establish... Read more
It is one of the unwritten rules about life but a rule nevertheless. It holds that few human beings, if any, got it right throughout, from the morning to the evening of their life. There is... Read more
Intellectuals, ideologues and critical observers of the Idoma identity are scheduled to converge at Otukpo in Benue State for a crucial exercise in re-imagining of the cultural group. “In th... Read more
It is a headline writer’s nightmare. “The Democratic Dilemma of the Benue People” won’t be a bad idea just as “Benue’s Mother of all Battles” would equally be a perfect fit. “The Impending C... Read more
The All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Benue State in central Nigeria appears set to remove ethnicity from the exercise of power in the state. It is not clear if that objective is what Benu... Read more
Come 2019, there is a new contender for power into the House of Representatives for the Otukpo/Ohimini Federal Constituency of Benue State. He is Barrister Manni Ochugboju, a former activist... Read more
Comrade Uche Onyeagucha, a product of the radical student politics of the late 1990s, a lawyer, a former member of the House of Representatives in Nigeria who resisted corruption and a guber... Read more
