Jim Nwobodo @ 86: CELEBRATING AN ICON
By Ofor Nwodo
In the words of Michael Jordan, “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, while others make it happen.”
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Nigerian News Leader First with details then facts
By Ofor Nwodo
In the words of Michael Jordan, “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, while others make it happen.”
By Max Amuchie
A nation does not declare its own decline. It performs normalcy — until the performance can no longer hold.
What follows is not an announcement, but a pattern — visible to those willing to look beyond the performance.
By Azu Ishiekwene
The former Labour Party presidential flagbearer, Peter Obi, thinks he is Nigeria’s most misunderstood politician. Why is it hard for us to see that his serial party flipping is not a sign of desperation but a tactic of survival for our own good? Why, even though he has flipped political parties five times in three election cycles, should he be compared to Vice President Atiku Abubakar in political vagrancy? Who is chasing Obi and his new soulmate, former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso? There are three possible answers.
By Max Amuchie
A nation does not collapse all at once. It erodes — layer by layer, system by system — until what once appeared unshakable begins to give way under the weight of forces it can no longer contain.
By Azu Ishiekwene
Listening to Kenyan President William Ruto diss Nigerians with a smile from faraway Italy, one would think he had taken a page from Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard. It was obvious that Ruto assumed Nigerians spoke that variety of unconventional English rendered by Tutuola in his story of magical realism from Yoruba mythology.
“Comment Is Free, But Facts Are Sacred”.... Charles Prestwich Scott.
By Bolanle Bolawole
Let me state from this starting point that I am an accidental journalist, sort of; just like Nasir el-Rufai, ex-governor of Kaduna state, described himself as an accidental civil servant. But let no one mistake the reference to el-Rufai here to mean anything! He is neither friend nor foe!