Africans rage at Dove over racist advert
Personal care and beauty brand Dove found itself in the midst of a social media storm on Sunday after it released a series of images that showed a black woman…
Commentary: How hate speech can harm your brain
In a flurry of confident pronouncements within an hour of the massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival, conservative commentators and activists linked the perpetrator, Stephen Paddock, to liberal…
ICT University? Not Again!
KEN UGBECHIE The problem with Nigeria is much more a leadership deficit than it is a followership disorder. It’s only in Nigeria that you see an engineer assigned to teach…
Kachikwu: Lest Buhari Forgets
Emma Agu What those who denied the minister of petroleum, state, Ibe kachikwu access to President Muhammadu Buhari have succeeded in doing is to force the man out of the…
POLITICAL COUP AGAINST PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI BY AMINU MASARI AND DAHIRU MANGAL
By Muhammad Galadanchi, The very fragile relationship between President Muhammadu Buhari and Aminu Masari,the Governor of his home state, Katsina is about to be further fractured. The relationship between both…
IPOB: A needless Army arrangement
KEN UGBECHIE The South East is under military siege. It is a needless siege to unarmed civilians in a part of the country famed for hard work, peace, order and…
To lie to a nation…
KEN UGBECHIE Some things confound and confuse. Some things are hard to believe, difficult to understand yet happen every so often as part of a people’s ethos. Some things simply…
Why Nigerians must first restructure their minds, by Femi Adesina
Hearing some Nigerians speak (whether based at home or in the Diaspora), you discern that they are “in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity”. They spew…
16 years of GSM…
KEN UGBECHIE This month makes it precisely 16 years since the Global System for Mobile, GSM, genre of communication was introduced into the Nigerian market. GSM in itself is not…
In Nigeria, Everyday is a Bribe
KEN UGBECHIE The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has told us what we already knew. It says Nigerian public sector thrives on a culture of bribe me, I bribe you….