The Clearing House of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) is done with the screening of presidential aspirants. Baring unforeseen circumstances, the list from the exercise is the list... Read more
A nation basically hollowed out by mediocrity and liliputianism Nigeria is today has the right to celebrate the coming re-emergence of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu. A British trained Sociologist with a... Read more
Death can be constructed. Or, death is constructed. Death that is not mourned may be real but still of no meaning or significance. So, mourning is death constructivism – making sense of a pa... Read more
What tendency will prevail in Yoruba politics in the aftermath of the death early this morning of elder statesman, Ayo Fasanmi? This angle to the death recommends itself given how age and de... Read more
The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) is going down memory lane on the occasion of this year’s May Day, recalling how its two governments of Kaduna and Kano states broke the ice “and set into m... Read more
Barring unforeseen circumstances, the radical Second Republic governor of Nigeria’s Northeast Borno State is scheduled to be buried tomorrow, April 30th, 2020. He died between 8.30 – 9 pm on... Read more
All eyes are on the Northern elite again but in what sense of the word? There was a time when this would have been an aimless question. That was when what Prof John Paden called the c... Read more
All eyes are on the Northern elite again. Provoked this time by the generalized insecurity that has seized the country, the representational turbulence has seen pundits, critics and sundry a... Read more
By Benson Upah I doff my hat for the writer of the tribute “End of an Era as Chief Obande Obeya Travels Out of Idomaland”. It is the best tribute that will ever be written on Chief Obande Ob... Read more
Other than the minority status of the Idoma nationality in a nation of mega nationalities, he occupied the same status as the Adedibus, the Shehu Musa Yar’Aduas and the late Sola Saraki. The... Read more
