Jane Uyi Orobosa There is diabolical and sinister plot by one Kassim ‘Alaroka’ Afegbua to set Edo State on fire ahead of the coming September 21 governorship election in the state through his improbable concoction. Afegbua, once aptly described as ‘Alaroka’ by a guest writer, Femi Alaka, in TheCable of February 28, 2022, has … Read more
HOW time flies! When Governor Godwin Obaseki assumed the leadership of the state in 2016, he felt like being on top of the world. He was seeing 2024 like year 3000, thinking in his vainglorious egotism and arrogance, that 2024 would never come. After running an administration that has been characterised by leadership disaster, storm … Read more
TOO many troubling occurrences have taken the stage in Nigeria lately, with heated commentaries on them dominating public discourse. Top on the list is the issue of the One Hundred and Thirty Seven School Children and some others that were abducted in Kuriga, Kaduna State, leaving fear, tears, anguish and trepidation in the land. As … Read more
POLIRICIANS are a funny lot in Nigeria. They possess several skills that are simply acquired but never learned. They acquire the skill of lies telling, combined with corruption, bribes taking, betrayal, illicit acquisition of wealth and back-stabbing. They wear the cloak of pretentiousness and robe themselves in sanctimoniousness. It is similar in other climes albeit, … Read more
HUNGER, melancholy and poverty are written of many faces everywhere one goes these days. And many times I hear people express regret that President Tinubu is in office. President Tinubu is certainly not one of the challenges confronting us. Not at all. He’s assuredly offering solutions to the chronic ailment, now manifest, that was embedded … Read more