Campaigns matter because they are supposed to give voters an opportunity to hear what candidates intend to do, question them, compare their proposals with their records, and decide what matters to them. The danger is that campaigns can also become dominated by slogans, personality politics, endorsements, social-media battles and promises that are difficult to verify….
Alhaji Aliko Dangote said he wants millions of Nigerians to share in the wealth which will be generated by the Dangote Refinery by buying at least ten shares priced at N525 each. That amounts to N5250 for each minimum investor. The impression was given that wealth sharing is guaranteed once the investment is made. Even…
By Gogi Serikoromo Purely in a historically anticipatory celebration of scholarship, friendship, Tompology, and Dr. Enewaridideke Ekanpou’s books, Tompolo’s Haulers and Hailers and The Wanted Man in Camp Four, the exceptionally gifted Ijaw highlife musician JKing Dr. Izonebi Alfred has once again emerged in public discourse. This emergence in public discourse is foregrounded by the…
The tragic death of 37 artisanal miners under the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, more popularly known as Civil Defence, in Minna last week reveals, yet again, the kind of structural violence against ordinary Nigerians perpetrated by the state itself. The circumstances of the mass arrest and detention in unsafe and…
By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY — The Chairman of Etsako East Local Government Area and Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Edo State, Hon. Sunny Ekpeson, has redeemed his N20 million pledge to the family of late Lance Corporal Fahad Sani of the 195 Battalion, Nigerian Army, Agenebode. Sani died on…
Troops under Operation Enduring Peace have rescued two kidnapping victims and arrested 12 suspects in separate operations across Plateau State. The operation’s Media Information Officer, Captain Polycarp Oteh, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday. According to Oteh, the first operation took place on Saturday when troops of Sector 1, Sub-Sector 12, acting on…
Fulham head coach, Alvaro Arbeloa, has claimed that the referees did not want Manchester United to lose against them, because of the injustice they faced in the Manchester derby last weekend. United played out a 1-1 draw at Craven Cottage on Sunday, after Matheus Cunha scored a deflected 89th-minute equaliser. Arbeloa was left fuming after…
By Chuks Okoye Recently, the Oko community, particularly the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, (OkoPoly), Anambra State, was agog with dignitaries, including the academics, captains of industries, politicians, businessmen and women, as well as students and Oko residents as the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, visited the polytechnic. Senator Tinubu was at the Polytechnic to inaugurate an…
Gradually, we are coming to the end of the year, my prayer is that the LORD keeps us beyond this year and gives us the grace to end the year joyfully in Jesus name. Brethren, the reality is that we have only a few months to go in 2026. The past eight months have been…
“As I talk to you, after I left office, vehicles that were given to me legitimately by government, this government went and seized them in a manner that was not befitting” – Former Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State Last week, former Governor Donald Duke of Cross River declared that military rule was, in many…
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