Emeka Obasi

Sports minister John Owan Enoh must believe in the ashes of his forebears. Let me make it clear to him that this job will mark a new beginning. You cannot come from Cross River State and relegate yourself to the background. Calabar is the cradle of Sports.

By Chido Nwakanma

Arise, O compatriots, the call of accountability obey. Demand from your governors and LG chairpersons actual dividends of democracy in performance management. Do so in tears because your pains from the Tinubu Fuel Tax have inflated the coffers of the federal and state governments.

By Funke Egbemode

Efe and Dayo dated for three years and we all thought they were headed for the altar. The introduction ceremony had already taken place and we were already picking out colours of the day, at least in our heads. Then out of the blue, things fell apart. Dayo dumped her in the meanest way. He took her money, her pride and her love and jetted out to Canada with another woman. After three years of romance andscented candles. Efe tried to be strong, putting a fake smile on, like everything was going on well. We all thought she was strong and doing fine until tragedy came calling. She wrapped her Toyota Camry round an electric pole and almost died.

By Femi Babafemi

If there is anyone who is not undaunted by difficult assignments—someone society can bank on to take on an existential problem and find a lasting solution to it—that must be Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd).

By Amb. Lilian Onoh (Chief C.C Onoh's Daughter)

In 1970, shortly after the Civil War, my sister’s secondary school had a temporary English teacher who taught them the immortal nonsense: “I threw the ball and catched it,” being the past tense of the verb “to catch.”

By Emmanuel Ogebe

Nigeria’s epic presidential election challenge, which I had flown from Washington to cover over the summer, just ended with a 13-hour live broadcast. It was tiring even watching from my home in Washington and not from my tight courtroom seat.

By Steve Osuji

JUDGMENT WITHOUT JUSTICE: It was an unduly long and tiresome pronouncement last Wednesday, 6th of September. One couldn’t help but feel for lead justice, Simon Tsammani. For over 12 hours, he rattled on and on like a cranky molue.

By Chido Nwakanmma

Reactions to the PEPT judgement across several platforms confirm the broad division in our land. The division is political, ethnic, and regional and takes other forms.

By Bola Bolawole

All around us, the barrel of a gun is seeking justice for the long-suffering, long-oppressed, long-pauperised, and long-marginalised African. Chad, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and now Gabon, the military have deposed sit-tight civilian dictators and are railing at the French colonial masters that has sustained the caricatures of leaders in office. France has only acted in its own self, even selfish, interests; it has maintained in office spineless African leaders who let her exploit the resources of the erstwhile colonies for next-to-nothing. The colonies of France in Africa might have been given flag Independence; they remain, in words as in deed, slaves of the French. Their resources are mindlessly exploited to gift the metropolitan power the comforts and privileges of a First World country while the African backwoods remain, like the biblical Israelites of yore, hewers of wood and fetchers of water.

By Azu Ishiekwene

It’s more than one year to the next governorship election in Edo State, which prides itself on being the “heartbeat of the nation”. But in a maelstrom that has forced the state’s heart to beat faster than is good for it, you would be forgiven to think the election is tomorrow.

By Jude Ogechi Eze

"Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy." — Thurgood Marshall

By Ikechukwu Amaechi

On Wednesday, September 6, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) delivered judgement in the petitions filed by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi and the Labour Party, and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as winner of the February 25 presidential poll.