Opinion

Indigenous textile operators are howling that Chinese operators have taken over the Nigeria’s textile industry. From East to West, North to South there is ranting. The local operators weep stalks to the fact that China, which was formerly an...

Turkish leader, Tayyip Erdogan decided to change his country’s ceremonial Presidency to an executive one. So he told his countrymen  “There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler’s Germany. There are...

The story of the Ogoni is not new. A well known and established case of state repression against civil rights. A rather pathetic story of a people repressed by their own government, dehumanized by those who should protect them,...

Nigerians watched a tipsy Olamide bring the Grammy awards of Nigeria (yimu) 'The headies' to ridicule as he disgustingly pulled "off" a Kanye West on stage because his YBNL 'rookie' Kesh (whose lewd songs are meant to be thrashed),...

It is indeed 50 years after the demise of Sir Ahmadu Bello, Premier of Northern Nigeria in a botched coup masterminded by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, others in 1966. Sardauna of Sokoto was killed and so was other prominent...

New Year, new resolutions. There was a time when only a few influential people had a telephone, at home, in the neighbourhood. There was also a time when you had to wait for a thing called a letter to arrive...

The name, Asuquo Ita may not ring a bell in the country. But, Eskor Toyo does amongst intellectuals, academics, economists, trade unionists, human rights activists, leftists and in university campuses across the country. However, both names refer to the...

I read the above article written by the Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Willie Obiano. My first reaction, even before reading it, was to question why it is only those working for Obiano or those that are paid are...

When Governor Udom Emmanuel was declared winner of the April 11, 2015 governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Akwa Ibom State erupted in rapturous joy, the type that can only be compared with a football loving...

The postcolonial world is a dangerous dualistic prism.  Both the ruler and the ruled walk between precipitous lines of forged but certainly unpretentiously doomed identities.  Unfortunately, for the most part living inside of the darkly haunted tinted glass corridors...