• Achebe Will Not Be Laid To Rest At Night

REALITY is beginning to dawn on the people, especially friends, professional contemporaries and the Ogidi age-grade leaders and the rest of the community, that in truth, the mighty had fallen.

The...

WE write to correct certain wrong assertions made by Mr. Hendrix Oliomogbe in his feature titled: ‘Ogboru, Ewherido plunge Delta DPP into crisis’ (The Guardian, May10, 2013).

Let me start by quickly stating that the crisis, as you referred to...

• PDP Not Dead In Ogun

Mr. Kayode Amusan, two-term Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member of the House of Representatives from Ogun State in the last dispensation, spoke to NIYI OLAJIDE on national issues, particularly the political...

• It Is Time For Us To Save This Country And Secure Its Future

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State does not shy from confronting issues. For a man so passionate about democracy, who was part of those who made sacrifices to ensure that...

Chief Edet Mkpubre is the immediate past national vice chairman of PDP South-south. He is from Oron Nation in Eket Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State. In this interview with AYOYINKA OLAGOKE, he lamented the uneven allocation of resources by...

He Should Now Go After Sponsors

Ambassador Onoja, President of Next Generation Youth Initiative International (NEGYII) and Principal Partner, FUDAC Consultancy International Ltd, told KAMAL TAYO OROPO that President Goodluck Jonathan is...

As Nigeria continues the search for effective means of stamping out terrorism within its domain, political scientist, Dr. Thomas Brister, expert in terrorism and counter-terrorism at the Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina...

Mr. Anthony Sani, chieftain and national publicity secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) told SAXONE AKHAINE, the Guardian Northern Bureau Chief that emergency rule might not solve the problem.

Do you think imposition of emergency rule...

Colonel Abubakar Umar (rtd) former military governor of Kaduna State and rights crusader spoke in an exclusive interview on the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in three states, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. Umar...

IN December 2011, the Federal Government declared a state of emergency in 15 local governments in four states - Borno, Yobe, Plateau and Niger - because of the unrelenting orgy of violence in those areas. Those areas affected councils in the...

Femi Falana (SAN), lawyer and rights activist gives perspective to the emergency rule declared by President Jonathan. 

Implications

THERE is massive violation of the rights of the people in those states in the hands of the terrorists and...

IT had been in the works for many months, but it was not an easy decision to take. There are many angles to it and if not well managed, a declaration of emergency rule could be counter- productive. That had been President Jonathan’s lot -...

WHO Let the Dogs Out? is a song written and originally recorded by Anslem Douglas (titled Doggie) for the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival season of 1998. Watching the slaughtering of two dead cows sent a wrong signal concerning the state of health of...

ACT one. Scene one.

They are dressed in white. From their clothes, beads and slippers to the staff in their hands, it is all white.  They are representatives of ifa olokun asoro dayo. While some of them are transfixed somewhere, praying for...