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Cardinal Onaiyekan’s Abuse of Clerical Privilege
By Temitope Ajayi There is something fundamentally inappropriate about Cardinal John Onaiyekan granting a television interview to offer his own…
Qualification for Election as President Under the Nigerian Constitution
The lesson is clear: While education is desirable, effective leadership rests on vision, courage, character, empathy, administrative capacity, and the…
Dìbò k’ó se’bẹ̀_ and the raw reality of politics – (2)
By abiodun KOMOLAFE _(Published in The Nation, Saturday, August 1, 2026)_ As Adlai Stevenson Jr. famously observed, _“A hungry man…
Joseph Greenberg and the Fourfold Classification of African Languages: Dismantling the Hamitic Myth American linguist Joseph
In essence, Greenberg's classification did more than organize languages; it restored intellectual agency to Africa. By proving that the vast…
The Fallacy of “Semi-Bantu”: An Obsolete Concept in the Light of Modern Anthropology and the Bantu Homeland
To continue describing any group as Semi-Bantu is to perpetuate a colonial typological error. The term has no linguistic validity,…
Tinubu Says He’s in Politics for Nigeria: Is This Deception, Amnesia, or Chronic Bwala Syndrome?
by Mohammed Bello Doka 31 July, 2026 There is a widow in Maiduguri who has not tasted rice in three…
Every Nation is an Artificial Construct: Reassessing the “Colonial Mistake” Narrative in Nigeria
The discourse on Nigeria’s legitimacy must shift from colonial determinism to civic responsibility. Nations endure not because they are “natural,”…
REDISCOVERING OURSELVES: LANGUAGE EXTINCTION, CULTURAL AMNESIA AND THE URGENT NEED TO RECLAIM OUR HERITAGE IN CROSS RIVER STATE
We are indeed getting closer to the re-discovery of ourselves. Our monoliths, our Nsibidi, our history of Princess Ibum and…
SERVING MY FATHERLAND My NYSC Camp Experience) By JOHN BEMSHIMA BENEDICT: New Book
https://selar.com/480n4cb155 SERVING MY FATHERLAND My NYSC Camp Experience) By JOHN BEMSHIMA BENEDICT “Life is a voyage. It is about the…
THE STATE MUST NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERROR: LEGITIMACY, POWER AND THE HOBBESIAN ABYSS
To openly propose dialogue with murderers is not strategy; it is abdication. A state must not negotiate with terror. Once…
WHO IS RUNNING THE FUTURE?: How Nigeria Uses Its Youth vs How Developed Nations Do
By Comrade Kunle Sodipo anipr _Ogun State, Nigeria based Public Affairs Analyst and Security Strategist_ 31 July, 2026 kdrexafricanchild@gmail.com If…
FROM PRISON CELL TO ASO ROCK: THE REMARKABLE POLITICAL COMEBACK OF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO
by Agbomagbe Kazeem "In June 1998, former Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo, regained his freedom after spending three years…
