Opinion Corner

THE HOMICIDAL RYTHM OF THE PYTHON DANCE On the 15th September 2016, one year ago today, I wrote the following. “You bathed in the blood of Biafrans, you crushed their bones and stripped away their dignity and self-respect just to keep Nigeria one. Now you say their children have no right to ask for self-determination simply because you killed their …

In a clime where pensioners are not paid as at when due, civil servants are often owed their basic salaries, teachers have become laughing stocks and unemployment has skyrocketed, it is easy to abandon time-tested positive behaviorism and embrace sheer survival tactics. Therefore, the need to re-organize landlords associations, street meetings, age groups and other community structures upon reawakened moral …

For the most part of my life, I have never experienced power ever run uninterrupted for 24 hours except maybe when abroad. And here therefore, we rely on power generators as instruments of self-help and an as metaphors of comparative betterment. But increasingly, the noise irritates and annoys, and worse of all is that we use diesel power generators to …

The name Adams Oshiomhole evokes good, bad and the ugly. The good in it is his ability to showcase himself relentlessly as a labor leader of note, behind facade of deceit, self-righteousness and his minimal dent on Edo State governorship for 8-year. The bad in it has always been his actual self – a creature of mere surfaces; shallowness, hollowness, …

When will the Nigerian slave masses realize that they’re in bondage to attain their desired freedom? Nigeria is a nation in different kinds of bondage. The ruling class is in looting bondage while the masses are in poverty bondage. The formal deafeningly cloaked the minds of the rulers’ insatiability and the latter keeps the downtrodden in the ditch upon which …

By Crusoe Osagie The logic and reason behind the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) criticism of the policies of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State are often disturbingly shallow and many times, absolutely ridiculous. This is especially so because this same political party ruled over this country and indeed Edo State for nearly two decades and literarily left the …

There is no question about Godwin Obaseki’s commitment to the welfare of Edo people as he continues to make the difficult decisions to clear out entrenched behaviours that inhibit growth Crusoe Osagie writes Lying adjacent to the University of Benin, Ekehuan Campus, is Garrick Memorial Secondary School (GMSS), a privately owned institution, which consists of rows of classroom blocks facing …