Opinion
At 82, Nduese Essien’s Warning to Nigeria: Restore Discipline or Risk Further Decline
By Solomon OKPO By any measure, Chief Nduese Essien has earned the moral authority to speak on Nigeria’s trajectory. At…
COMMENTARY Chef Hilda ‘Jollof’ Baci: In The News Again With 3rd Guinness World Record
By Ebuka UKOH The cynicism had come too quickly. A couple of years ago, after Hilda Baci, Nigeria's celebrity chef,…
Urban 2 APC Mobilisation: A Vote of Confidence Anchored on Results, Not Rhetoric
The recent mobilisation led by the APC Urban 2 Ward leader and the Commissioner for Sports, Elder Paul 'Sports' Bassey,…
Beyond Handouts: Why Senator Ekong Sampson’s Record Rewrites the Meaning of Representation in Akwa Ibom South
By Solomon OKPO In Nigeria’s political space, constituency projects are often reduced to token gestures, symbolic handouts timed for optics…
January 19: What MLK Day Should Ask Nigeria
By Ebuka UKOH Monday, January 19, was the 39th anniversary of MLK Day, a U.S. federal holiday on the third…
When The Police Guard Power Against The People: Ekid Protest And The Dangerous Optics Of Force
By Solomon OKPO What should alarm any serious observer of Akwa Ibom’s civic space is not merely that Ekid youths…
