Everywhere you go is red Red dress day? Yes Red letter day? No What is going on? I ask Is there a game of football today? Maybe Man U is playing Or Arsenal gunning for fourth place Or Liverpool walking alone But I feel so all alone In a sea of red...
Valentine and the day after Pity the flowers that got pluckedAnd got delivered to express lovePity the flowers that got crushedIn-between bruised lovers Pity the ones that got thrown awayOr the flowers that got despisedOr the flowers abusedAnd the...
Everywhere you go is redRed dress day? YesRed letter day? NoWhat is going on? I askIs there a game of football today?Maybe Man U is playingOr Arsenal gunning for fourth placeOr Liverpool walking aloneBut I feel so all aloneIn a sea of redRed sea if...
As you read this piece this moment, someone’s right is being violated. No, I don’t mean in those far-flung places that you can truly claim inability to do something about. It happens all around you, in your immediate environment; maybe even in your...
Last week, I wrote about the need for Nigerians to pay more attention to what their state governors are doing, if we are to save our present and future. There is every reason to stay on the matter a bit more. And a few news items in the last few...
Last week, the Independent National Electoral Commission once again postponed an election after much arm-twisting by Nigerian security agencies, few days to the date set for the polls. This happened when most stakeholders had mobilised for the Edo...
Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari urged the meeting of his senior government officials with economic experts to think outside the box, in trying to resolve the country’s economic catastrophe and swim out of the troubled waters. It must surely be...
It has been a week of interesting news reports. We saw the continuing saga of Mrs Patience Jonathan’s struggle to claim and keep sums of money (ranging from $15m to $31.4m, depending on which report you read) found in bank accounts allegedly opened...
The coup couldn’t last
As Turkey refused to chicken out
In the face of tanks and guns
They dared to fight the goons
And stood to save their country
(OE July 16, 2016)
After nearly 10 years of struggling to extricate himself from the proverbial long arms of the law, Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, who goes by the religious title of ‘Rev King’ got the final words from the Supreme Court last Friday. In the wisdom of the...
