The West African Elders’ Forum (WAEF) has deployed a pre-election fact-finding mission to Sierra Leone, ahead of the country’s general elections scheduled for June, 2023. The WAEF team which is led by former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo also has former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice President of The Gambia Fatoumata Tambajang as members,…
By Edoka Itodo Nigerian disc jockey, Florence Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy, has doled out £100,000 (N58 million) to the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) to support postgraduate students from Africa at the University of Oxford. The billionaire heiress made the donation through the Cuppy Africa Oxford Scholars Fund. According to the music star, “The…
Chinua Achebe was a novelist. Wole Soyinka is a playwright. I know most of you didn’t know this, but there is really no basis for comparison between the two. It’s like comparing Sunny Ade and Oliver De Coque because they are both singers. Chinua Achebe also deserved the Nobel Prize no doubt, but he never…
Achebe was more like a true African spirit on a mission to provide a counter narrative to the faulty (rac!st) Western narrative of Africa and Africans; narratives told to maintain the supremacy of the Whites. Achebe’s literary “sin”, why he can never deserve the Nobel Laureates title was simply because his works questioned Joseph Conrad’s…
The Obi-Datti Movement has said supporters of the Labor Party, LP, otherwise known as “Obidients” and the party’s vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, are ready for a televised debate challenge by Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka. The spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Movement, Professor Chris Nwakobia, disclosed this in an interview with Arise TV on Saturday. Speaker…
By Maryam Abdullahi Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, says the process of the Nigeria presidential election was not marred by technical faults but deliberately manipulated. In a letter addressed to Joe Biden, the US president, Adichie expressed dissatisfaction over the process of the presidential election conducted on February 25. She said the election was full…
By Prince Ejeh Josh While exploring the beautiful world of artistic and poetic appreciation to draw inspiration that would enable a graphic, precise and remarkable description of the fascinating qualities that ought to adorn the human existence and shape our world to a just, peaceful, secure and egalitarian society where the spur and urge to…
By Sikiru Obarayese, April 6, 2023. The All Progressives Congress (APC) Enugu state chapter has announced the expulsion of a former Governor of Enugu State, Barr. Sullivan Chime and the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr Osita Okechukwu. The party also expelled former Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Hon. Eugene Odo, an…
By Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN. Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony criminal charges of falsifying business records in Manhattan criminal court Tuesday afternoon. Trump surrendered and was placed under arrest Tuesday before he was arraigned in a historic and unprecedented court appearance, in which the former…
We of the Labour Party (LP) in Enugu State have read, with much interest, a motion passed by the Enugu State House of Assembly urging President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to investigate the “ignoble role” of the military in the governorship and state assembly polls of March 18, 2023. At first we doubted…
