by Tony Ogunlowo A few days ago a rather chilling and disturbing video emerged, online, of a young teenage girl cradling a recently decapitated human head. On her own admission, she was going into the bush to bury it and she had already killed two people herself. Considering her young age it would be otherwise... Read More
by Olusegun Adeniyi As one would expect from such IT persons, the duo of Mr Ye Zhenzhen, the CEO of People’s Daily Innovation and Mr David Chen, Vice President of Microsoft, dazzled their audience with the coming world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the implications for the new media age. This was at a discussion... Read More
by Ijeoma Ndukwe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a natural response to sexual trauma, and yet it remains profoundly stigmatized in our society – to the detriment of the millions of survivors dealing with the disorder. Beginning with Childhood sexual abuse, a gross and significant violation of the human spirit, crossing the sacred space of... Read More
by Simon Utsu Without beating around the bush, I’ll like to state in categorical terms that I’m highly disappointed in the Vice Chancellor of the Cross River state University of Technology. This was an institution that was started during the Donald Duke administration (from the old PolyCal), which grew in strength under successive (University) administrations... Read More
by Rev Fr Felix Uche Akam To the dead, those who received on our behalf the death brought to our doorsteps with a code name, Operation Egwu Eke II (Python Dance II), I say rest in Peace. You will not experience injustice and hatred again, you will not be discriminated against because of your tribe... Read More
by Jennifer Nagu Traveling by Air with children can be pretty daunting experience especially in cases where delays and further delays are encountered. When you consider the hassles of checking in, passing through airport security, navigating your way to your gate and finally getting on your flight; you realize you require much preparation to avoid... Read More
by Bura-Bari Nwilo In 2017, children given birth to in 1970 would be 47 years old. These are people who were born at the end of the 1967 – 1970 civil war that rocked the foundation of Nigeria, and grossly, the Igbo nation. To know the impact of the war, you’d have to look... Read More
by Vera Ezimora Kevin Hart has been in the news since Saturday, but for all the wrong reasons. A while ago, it came out that Kevin Hart was cheating on his wife and he went above and beyond to discredit the allegations. He made it sound like you’d have an easier time eating beef in... Read More
by Sam Hart “We are grateful to God for intervening in stopping what could have been the greatest bloodbath known in the history of mankind” The above were the remarks of Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu when he visited the Press Centre of the Nigerian Union of Journalists in Umuahia on Sunday,... Read More
by ‘Fisayo Soyombo Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. — Albert Einstein Whoever he is, the military officer who coined the codename ‘Python Dance’ is a genius. Although an original version of the military operation, the Python Dance I, held between November 27 and December 27,... Read More
by Reuben Abati Operation code-names have been an important part of military operations since the Germans first applied them in World War 1 but it may be said that the recent (or ongoing?) controversial military exercise in the South Eastern part of Nigeria codenamed Operation Python Dance II is the first major incident in Nigerian... Read More
by Funmilola Ajala At least for now, the gale of political implosions within Donald Trump’s White House and trading of diplomatic salvos between Washington and Moscow have taken the back seats. Attention has been hijacked by nature’s unpalatable visit to mankind and the attendant testimonies of woes by those directly affected. Hurricanes, curried with some... Read More
by Joseph M. Cachia “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” ― Emma Goldman The name of a quiet medieval town in Hungary – Visegrad – has in recent times become synonymous with the word “rebellion” in Brussels. The Visegrad Group, also known... Read More
by Pius Adesanmi (This is a long read. I plead guilty. I humbly ask for one hour of your Sunday to come along with me.) There are two research questions I have to start asking Nigerians who were at least 40-years-old between 1960 and 1970: what was your police experience? What was your perception of... Read More
by Farooq A. Kperogi President Buhari is held prisoner by what appears to be an obsessive impulse to desert Nigeria when the going gets tough. On at least two occasions, he has publicly confessed to feeling the urge to abandon his mandate in midstream. The first time he gave public expression to this runawayist emotion... Read More
by Pius Adesanmi But for the giveaway that is in our names, I would have called for a daunting challenge: a national day of identity neutrality in the management of our humanity and phatic communion. I am talking about your myriad transactional moments today. Can you take a one-day break from letting the ethnic identity... Read More
by Paul Olarewaju A psychological conflict resulting from simultaneously held contradictory beliefs and attitudes is something every human being experiences, irrespective of their nationality or race. This implies that humans have the tendency of acting contrary to what they know is right due to various reasons. Usually, when we act or behave contrary to... Read More
My president, I bare my heart out in this letter with great respect and humility. Often times I wonder if you read any of my open letters. However, I write this open letter so fellow Nigerians will understand the ache in my heart. I was about 17yrs during the Nigerian civil war. My youth was... Read More
by Festus Ogun The Defence Headquarters has labelled the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) a “militant terrorist organisation”. This was made known yesterday in Abuja in a statement by Gen. John Enenche, the Director, Defence Information. IPOB is an organisation that got its mandate from the Constitution. Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of... Read More
by Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, let me confess my admiration for security forces generally. It is not just because of the cleanliness and crispiness of their uniform or the famed discipline that they imbue in their members. It is because I find their job too risky. I often wonder why any man or woman would... Read More
by Samuel Akinnuga Dear Mr President, I would be very sincere and straight to the point in this very short letter to you I have finally found the guts to write to you. I hope it affords me the opportunity to draw your attention to many issues of immense of relevance to the... Read More
by Femi Fani-Kayode On the 15th September 2016, one year ago today, I wrote the following. “You bathed in the blood of Biafrans, you crushed their bones and stripped away their dignity and self-respect just to keep Nigeria one. Now you say their children have no right to ask for self-determination simply because... Read More
by Jide Ojo Over time, as a media personality featuring on various radio and television programmes and writing for newspapers, I have often advocated for diversification of Nigerian economy as a panacea to our pulling out of economic doldrums. However, I failed to appropriate and adapt the same message for myself, until recently. I pride... Read More
by Kingsley Moghalu Can our politicians save Nigeria? Let’s get real. The answer is “No”. They can’t. Certainly not the vast majority of the dominant political leadership class we have in our country today. Let’s just spend a little time explaining why they can’t. And then figure out, as citizens, what to do to... Read More
by Anderson Ofuzim Oriahi Debate is subjective. It is nothing short of a game of thrones; explicit, vicious and scheming with unending plot twists where there is hardly hero or villain, victor or vanquished. And the anything but “Greatest Podcast You Ever Did In Your Life” debate featuring Pulse.ng’s Osagie Alonge, Ayomide Tayo and... Read More
by Pius Adesanmi Wole Soyinka’s work as a teacher of his nation and people in the last seven decades can be summed up in one word: transcendence. His entire envisioning of Nigeria – for which he has suffered persecution, deprivation, abuse, insults and other unspeakable forms of punishment – is reducible to transcendence. The... Read More
by Okoye Chinekwu Paul “If I’m re-arrested, this country will burn, I assure you”. That was Nnamdi Kanu’s statement during an exclusive interview with Okey Sampson of The sun newspaper, published on Sept 2, 2017. I have always had a soft spot for Biafra and what it stands for. Having learnt all about the Nigerian... Read More
by Bayo Oluwasanmi These are heady days for Yoruba unity. The Yoruba Summit,which held last week in Ibadan, represents a milestone in the way forward to extricate ourselves from the political sinking ship of Nigeria. Though the communique issued at the end of the summit didn’t call for outright separation of Yoruba from... Read More
by Olusegun Adeniyi It was not enough for the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Aisha Alhassan, to say that she has pitched her political tent with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 presidential election race that has, for all practical purposes, been declared open; she also had to rub it in that... Read More
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