By SIMEON MAUTIN  Reverend Father Nazareth was alone in his office a day after the presidential election. He turned on the TV for an update and something on the news about the election caught his attention and flooded his chest with all sorts of feelings: bitterness, frustration, irrational fears, hopelessness and a compelling voice screaming: “Why?” […]

By MARINDOTI OLUDARE THE year was 1954 when 25-year-old Martin Luther King Jr became a pastor in the Dexter Baptist Church. By 1955, a now 26-year-old King organised the Montgomery bus boycott in protest of the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in Southern United States.  As a 32-year-old, he had started the non-violent […]

By Pat Onukwuli EXACTLY one year ago, March 17, 2022, Professor Chukwuma Soludo was sworn-in as Governor of Anambra State having polled 46 per cent of votes cast to beat the other 17 candidates in the November 6, 2021, Anambra governorship election. His ascendancy came with lots of hope and expectations for Ndi Anambra, as […]

‘The gale of endorsement across different demographics, social and religious groups, attests to one thing: Dapo Abiodun has taken the state notches higher’

By UCHE NNADOZIE FORGET that he could not pronounce Eko e dide! Loosely transplanted to mean: Lagos get up. This summarises the incongruence in the philosophy underpinning his political sojourn. It is axiomatic to say: Lagos no dey sleep. Sorry, it’s not an axiom, it’s a fact. Lagos does not sleep both metaphorically and factually. […]

By Kunle Somorin  ABOUT 45 months ago, Prince Dapo Abiodun came to office amidst massive hope and expectation from the people of Ogun State that at last a leader had come to truly guide Ogun to progress, development and the realisation of her destiny. The mood all over the state, at the time he took over, […]