BY TONY EKE AN unusual feature of the build-up to the Hunger Protest which began last Thursday 1st August reflected the nature of the protest itself. At its wit’s end, the Federal Government not only dished out veiled threats to the protest planners but also made it seem as though the protest would bring about […]
A torrent of tributes has poured in from different parts of the world as Black Africa’s first Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka clocked 90 years yesterday. Whether in speech or in writing, Soyinka’s attainments both as a writer and activist had received the most profound, commendatory appraisal from a broad spectrum of scholars, the intelligentsia, […]
Minute by minute they live: The stone’s in the midst of all. Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. “Easter 1916” by W.B. Yeats BY TONY EKE IN penning the above excerpt of poetic memorial for the Irish martyrs in the Easter Rebellion of 1916, W.B. Yeats, one of the greatest […]
BY TONY EKE NIGERIA is hardly short of a tragic incident at any given time. Outside of the regular casualties in the Northeast and Northwest regions, the latest tragedy involved one of our hapless, young compatriots Miss Glory Adekolure on the outskirts of Benin City, a fortnight ago. The fresh graduate died in one of […]
BY FRED EDOREH In Ayi Kwei Armah’s “The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born”, we come across a bird called Chichidodo. The interesting thing about it is that it hates excrement so much but it’s best food is the maggot which grows best in excreta. Even when Chichidodo pollutes the air, it runs as if […]
BY NELSON AGBAJOR The Communication team of the Delta State Government under the supervision of the Honourable Commissioner for Information, Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza has been able to navigate the media landscape via a pragmatic approach and display of professionalism. In the bustling heart of Delta State, Nigeria, Governor Sherif Oborevwori stands at the helm of […]
BY TONY EKE THE official declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day six years ago ranked as one of the best policies ever initiated by ex-President Muhammadu Buhari. That act memorialising June 12 earns an occasional respect from me each time I subject the tenor of his tenure to retrospection. For once, the former leader […]
BY TONY EKE IN the past one year of the 10th Senate, no other bill was swiftly passed like the one that reverted Nigeria to the old National Anthem after presidential assent. Without inputs from a broad spectrum of the populace, the Senate resurrected the old anthem which was consigned to the dustbin of history forty […]
BY OGHOLAJA E. OLAYEMI ESQ IT is trite to say that majority of Nigerian students who have towed the legal pathway to study and reside in Europe have found themselves battling job discrimination, that unless the European Union (EU), as a matter of great necessity, does the needful to stop this discrimination by its member […]