Opinion

You cannot tango with hyenas and not get devoured. Hyenas are vicious; blundering yet pernicious, and jocular yet devious. Hyenas do not live by the rules of the wild; they subsist on the punitive canon of their clans. In fact, infanticide is common among hyenas. They eat their young. They eat their own. So, that…

Following the Executive Order of the Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwaratim Odunayo Akeredolu SAN, to the Fulani Herdsmen illegally occupying to the State Forest Reserves to vacate within seven days With effect from Monday 18″ January, 2021, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum led by its Chairman, Dr. Kayode Fayemi met with the leadership of Miyetti…

SIR: While the world is being ravaged by the Coronavirus pandemic and permanent solution is being sought, Nigeria, as a country, has turned into a theatre of killings through the activities of terrorists notably by the notorious Boko Haram terrorist group and its splinter group Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP). Daily, the Northeast states, most…

By Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah. I am not sure I know how to address you especially now that the formal Ranka ya dade is of no use to you since you are now in eternity. However, because this is a very special year, I had decided to write two letters, one to you and the…

By Paul Ade-Adeleye Egged on by sycophants, opportunists and merchants of fortune, Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, may soon turn a dreamy eye to Aso Villa. It is not immediately clear if he will try to campaign for the presidency, especially as he has done the politically correct thing of publicly saying he is currently…

Our attention has been drawn to the above captioned “Tension mounts over end of tenure of heads of Prisons, Immigration, Civil Defence” which was published on Prnigeria an online news portal of January 6, 2021 by a shadowy group without names or fixed addresses. We could therefore have chosen to ignore their antics as the…

The forum of Kogi State Polytechnic former Students who are now members of academic staff of the institution, have conferred an award of outstanding performance on the Acting Rector of the Polytechnic, Dr Salisu Ogbo Usman. The award was conferred on Dr Usman in his office on Monday, 4th of January, 2021, in recognition of…

A man who was fed up with the failures of Our leaders wants to join politics, he asked me to tell him TEN things he should expect: 1.Enough money to spend on party Exco to get the party ticket and still no certainty they will vote for you. 2.Answer every calls and honour every public…

By Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah 5 days ago Comments Offon A Nation In Search Of Vindication By Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah 21 Views Share Save Another Christmas with Dark Clouds of Death: Let me paraphrase the holy prophet Isaiah who said: “For Jerusalem (Nigeria’s sake), I will not be silent until her vindication shines forth like the…

The day was February 28, 2020. Time: 12:36am. Word count: 47. In what would herald a major defining moment of reality, Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, took to Twitter to announce Nigeria’s index case of the coronavirus, ultimately changing the course of the new year for Nigeria, as it did the world. “The Federal Ministry…