OPINION: Transgender as Perceived by the Trans Community

It is interesting to discover a perspective (different from the norm) that a person’s gender does not always determine their sexual orientation. This appears to be the foundation of transgender. For most people who are cisgender, there abide a lot of confusion about the whole point of transgender. Many still believe that it is a sickening or mentally-ill indication for a person to decide their gender outside of conventional genderism(gender based on sex). However, whatever...

OPINION: Anambra’s Politics of Blurred Identity

Nigeria’s party-based democracy has a distinct model that is perhaps, dominant in the Anambra state. Usually, when a candidate emerges from a political party for an elective position, support from party members is exclusive and never in doubt especially when the process of that emergence is not in contest. But Anambra state has left more to be desired. For sixteen years and five months, the All Progressive Grand Alliance – APGA, has maintained its control...

OPINION: What Post 2023 Presidential Election Might Mean for Nigeria

Politics entails both public and private interests of individuals. So it happens that people always gravitate towards the direction where their interests have been served better. Although there is a near consensus that Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of Labour Party is the most suitable, in terms of age, health, credibility, and many other measurable indices that should guide the election of public officers. But politics retains all elements of surprises which always unleashed. Besides,...

This Man Is Dangerous: Go Get Him, Boys

“You can gallivant all you want with junk premises, and all of them will lead you back to the money bags in this man’s head.” Peter Cheyney, the British maestro, the one before this other British maestro, James Hadley Chase, was in the game as Britain’s most shrewd detective novelist, the second his first, the most daring book, ‘This Man Is Dangerous; Go Get Him, Boys’ hit the shelves. If I am lying, I am...

OPINION: A Religious Dilemma

Nigerian Christians must decide whether to cut or thrust.  It is not unusual that religion is getting all the attention as next year’s presidential election in Nigeria draws closer. For better or for worse, Nigerians take religion very seriously, and the often unpredictable interaction of religion and ethnicity is a key element of political contestation in the country. Yet, if the role of religion was totally predictable, that Nigerian Christians feel that they have been...

Nigeria in Uncharted Waters

The contending scenarios as social order breaks down.   In a different context, the deadly attack on the 7 Guards Battalion of the Nigerian Army Presidential Guards Brigade on the evening of Friday, July 22nd would have set alarm bells ringing in the upper echelons of Nigerian intelligence. Among the many puzzles raised by the attack, which reportedly left three soldiers wounded and eight dead, is the question of how the assailants got wind of the elite unit’s...

Everyone’s Obituary is Inevitable, Chuks Iloegbunam Tells Sam Omatseye to Cleanse His Journalism

Why does it make sense to you and to your principal that the only route to his vaulting presidential ambition must be one that sunders two ethnic groups that have since before the amalgamation been living together in amity, harmony and peace, two peoples that have always, in peace or in peril, lent each other a helping hand? Some have called you foolish, dear Sam Omatseye. Others insist that you are plain stupid. There are...

Obism—The test of translating a movement into electoral victory votes

“The duo of Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed remains the most qualified team that could steer this country in a different direction. However, a possible victory hangs on how this movement could strategically circumvent a dysfunctional balloting process and navigate past the finish line of electoral victory.” ―Anthony Obi Ogbo ________________________ During a strategic group meeting of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) held shortly before the 2015 election at a castle on Puerta Vista Lane in...

OPINION: Why Religion Should Take A Back Seat On Who Governs Nigeria

By Abba Dukawa (Guest Columnist)   Weaponizing ethnic and religious chauvinism will be detrimentally debilitating to every Nigerian because these two sickening barometers for electing Nigerian leaders have taken the country backward. Hunger and untold hardship aren’t respectful of ethnicity or religion. Just like rain, whenever there is a downpour, no one’s roof is always spared the reason why religion shouldn’t be a yardstick about who governs the country. As the country gradually counts months...

Peter Obi: Audacity of Raw Truth Over Optimism and Unrestrained Emotions

“I hope that I am wrong. I know that I am not wrong. I am a pragmatist as much as I am a realist.” ―Don Okolo I am the messenger with the bad news. Especially the kind of news so heavy to bear you’d rather hold it close to your vest for as long as you could until the waves from the resultant surge passed. But I am the one that would go the distance...

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