Death of Civility and the Rise of Rage, By Azu Ishiekwene
If we want to change what is happening on the streets, we must start by taking civility back, the golden measure of which is doing to others as we would like done to us. We must deplore the lack of compromise in politics and call out – instead of applauding…
Masari, Zulum: Tackling A Problem From Its Roots, By Zainab Suleiman Okino
Since the Boko Haram insurgency appeared on the scene in 2009, tens of thousands of lives of the civil populace and military personnel have been lost and a large swathe of the country’s territory seized. While the war in the North-East corridors is still raging, another frontier of conflict opened…
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The Fear of ‘Black’ Foreigners, By Dele Agekameh
Rather than its policy of demonising African immigrants, the South African government can reassure its people through relevant legislation, identifiable progressive policy and by simply doing the job it was elected to do. In his Unpopular Essays, first published in 1950, Bertrand Russell says: “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and…
South Africa’s Xenophobia Has Exposed Nigeria As The Gnat Of Africa, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
No one takes a weak and crumbling state like Nigeria seriously outside its borders. No one respects an economically sick, rudderless nation. We have squandered our wealth and have become the GNAT of Africa. That we fought apartheid is ancient history. We were rich, boisterous and prodigal. Greed and waste…
The Courts Must Nullify President Buhari’s Election On Grounds of Perjury, By Femi Aribisala
In filing his Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) papers for the 2019 presidential election, President Buhari lied under oath. He committed outright perjury. Under the law in Nigeria, this renders him ineligible to contest the presidency. Therefore, his declaration by INEC as duly elected president of Nigeria must be nullified…
Mohammed Adoke Writes Back, By Reuben Abati
Adoke remarkably is the first attorney general and minister of justice in Nigeria to give this kind of account, to the best of my knowledge. And it is a refreshing contribution, an even-handed, authoritative, compelling, and well-written account of his stewardship and experience. The Goodluck Ebele Jonathan administration in Nigeria…
How Nigeria Can End Xenophobia Without South Africa’s Help, By ‘Fisayo Soyombo
Most Nigerians in South Africa own businesses that they should be running back home. And this is what the Nigerian government must focus on: To render more support to small-scale business owners, revitalise the education and health sectors, solve the perennial electricity problem. For the first time ever, Nigeria-based Nigerians…
Xenophobia, Economic Downturns, and Social Envy, By Uddin Ifeanyi
If we judge the rectitude of policies by their outcomes and not by how well-intended they were, there is no doubt that the ZANU-PF’s command-and-control policies ruined that beautiful country. Context, then, within which to appraise the decision by the ruling All Progressives Congress in Nigeria that the solution to…
Xenodochial, Not Xenophobia, By Hannatu Musawa
The horrific disturbing tales of discrimination and violence in South Africa as of recent has been nothing short of unacceptable. It would seem that the scars of apartheid are evidently obvious in these attacks of hatred and cowardice. In 1994 when South Africa was democratized; rather than decreasing the incidence…
What Soured South Africa’s Umqombothi, By Festus Adedayo
I have searched frantically for the lure of the gruesome murders of Nigerians and other African nationals by South Africans at the drop of a hat, the looting of their property and the animal instinct latent in these acts, and my findings revealed a retained savagery of Apartheid. In the…
