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May

19

2025

The Scary Rise in South-East Organised Systematic Exclusion From Nigeria.

Column, Metro, News, Opinion, Politics, SponsoredBola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, South East

It’s time to strip away the propaganda and confront the truth: the South-East region of Nigeria continues to suffer calculated exclusion from national development policies and federal investments, an injustice both glaring and dangerous to Nigeria’s unity. Let’s break it down, fact by fact: President Bola Ahmed Tinubu STUDENT LOAN SCHEME, South-East Excluded. The 2024 rollout of the Nigerian Student Loan Scheme by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has so far failed to include a single public tertiary institution from the South-East among the first batch of beneficiaries. While students in other zones are applying, over 100,000 South-East students…

May

17

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

Housing: The urgency of an emergency – By abiodun KOMOLAFE

Column, Metro, News, Opinion, PoliticsAbiodun KOMOLAFE

I was out of town last Saturday when a sudden phone call shattered my plans for the weekend. My co-tenant informed me of a shocking rent hike by a staggering 75% increase! In one fell swoop? In a letter to that effect, the Estate Agent, or ‘Caretaker’, as they are called in this part of the world, added a caveat, which more or less sounded like a formal threat: “In view of this, we hereby review the rent to N350,000.00 (Three hundred and fifty thousand naira) only for your subsequent tenancy period commencing from 10th November, 2025; if you so…

May

17

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

Nigeria’s governors: Halfway to where? (1) By abiodun KOMOLAFE

Column, News, Opinion, PoliticsAbiodun KOMOLAFE, Nigeria, Politics

To begin with, any assessment of the subnational level must acknowledge that Nigeria’s federal system is defective and quasi-federalist in nature. Put bluntly, it operates with the ethos of a tightly centralized “Bonapartist state”. This is the truth of the matter: no matter how well a subnational governor performs, the operating framework handicaps him. It’s like a boxer fighting with one hand behind his back. In other words, there’s a debilitating limit to what a governor can achieve. For instance, governors of states like Benue, Plateau and Zamfara have discovered that the title of Chief Security Officer is more in…

May

02

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

Of Stupidity, Show Of Shame And Shenanigans 2.

Column, News, Opinion, PoliticsChris Nwaokobia, Nwaokobia Jnr, Opinion, Politics

It has been a full week of listening to Politricktians struggling to defend the indefensible. I have watched some struggle to present purely self-seeking and egocentric predilections and decisions as altruistic and popular. The usual lie told when politicians decamp from one Party to another was rife in the news-wave. It was repeated every so often they were confronted with 'why did you decamp to a Party you had mocked and described as soulless and directionless?". And the lies would come streaming with shameless Olympic stupidity and shenanigans unbridled. If your reason for moving from the PDP to the APC…

Apr

27

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

Ekiti: A path to economic emancipation

Column, Economy, News, Opinion, PoliticsBiodun Oyebanji, Economy, Ekiti State, Opinion, Politics

By Damilola Adeniran Since the creation of Ekiti State on October 1, 1996, various administrations have beenfocused on achieving rapid socio-economic development. The quest for development wasundoubtedly a fundamental factor driving the calls for the state's creation. This isunderstandable, given the historical context: the old Ondo State was dominated by theOndo clan, while Ekitis were marginalized from governance. Governor Biodun Oyebanji assumed office at a time when order and efficiency ingovernance were crucial for Ekiti State. The state is often characterized as an "agrarianstate," reflecting its rural agricultural lifestyle, subsistence farming system, and historicalpolitical decentralization. In this context, agriculture and…