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THOSE who were disappointed by President Barack Obama when he blocked Nigeria from buying arms to fight the Boko Haram insurgency now say there is more than meets the eye. To be fair to the duo of Obama and David Cameron of Britain, they may not be directly involved in plotting a regime change in…

FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954), the Mexican self-portrait artist said “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” This classic saying is in tune with the biblical “It came to pass.” “And it came to pass” is a biblical phrase that occurs many times in the Old Testament. It occurs 396…

A NUMBER of questions are pertinent at this point: Were the soldiers who prevented Governors Amaechi and Oshiomhole from entering Ekiti to monitor the elections, and those who escorted Chris Uba to the state not acting under orders? What duties, under the constitution, were the police minister and junior defence minister, in Ekiti to perform…

WHAT is the age when men and women can legally have sex in Nigeria?  This is a round about way of asking what is the age of consent?  A simple question; but an extra-ordinarily complicated one.  The new Child rights Legislations stipulate that having carnal knowledge (sex) of a child below the age of 18…

SINCE his audacious but people-driven decision to venture into the 2015 governorship election in Abia State, the man of the moment, Dr. Alex Otti, has not only stolen the political show in Abia, but has engineered a new atmosphere of rare political consciousness amongst the Abia populace.    Certain factors could be attributed to this…

I AM deeply concerned and flummoxed, as are most decent Nigerians, about the present political quagmire we find ourselves in, against a backdrop of the collapse or near collapse of governmental structures and services, widespread poverty, insecurity and economic and social regression. Without trying to sound too dramatic or overstate the problem, we are approaching…

FEW people are likely to be surprised that the Jonathan administration has not reacted to the recording released by Sahara Reporters in which a junior defence minister claims that he was mandated by the president to draft a couple of army officers to facilitate and coordinate a subversion of the 2014 Ekiti governorship elections. Having…

I MUST give kudos to the progenitors of the peace accord between President Jonathan and General Buhari for this 2015 general election into the office of the president, and now being emulated and adopted at other levels of government across the federal republic.     Initiated by erudite professor and seasoned diplomat of all times…

A  MULTI-COLOURED full  page  advert  in  a national newspaper  of Monday February  23 titled ‘Let  My Experience  Work  For  You’ showed the CV  and work experience  of  APC governorship  candidate  Akin Ambode in  various  colours  of  the rainbow. It  was an advert meant to  arrest  attention  and it surely   did  because of  its picturesque  layout and…

LAST week, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State put figures to its human casualty in the ongoing politically instigated violence across the country. Chairman of the party, chief Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, disclosed that over 30 of its supporters had been killed in the state in the past few months. His media aide, Eze…

AS a Nigerian who has experienced Turks and their culture both at home and in Turkey for over a decade of my life, I have come to see and feel Turkey as my second country. My first interaction with the Turkish society was through education in Abuja at one of their many schools nationwide before…

SIGBONLE came home to confront her parents. Alaba had stressed to her the need to let her parents know what was going on with Trouble. After six months of a steady relationship with Trouble, it was time to come out into the public and declare an intimate relationship with Trouble. How do you tell your…