Opinion & Columns

By Ehichioya Ezomon  When someone does a good job, they deserve our praise, and our honour. Today, that praise, that honour goes to the Minister of Interior, Mr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, for a promise made and a promise kept. He’d pledged on September 7, 2023, that the backlog of applications for …

By Young Erhiurhoro The above topic is quite expedient as it’s woven round two important divine and traditional tools of “pulpit and palace.” A pulpit in this usage is a description of the church and the clergy, while the palace is a description of a royal throne and the king. …

By Ehichioya Ezomon  President Bola Tinubu – acclaimed cat (or bat) with nine lives – seems to face the last test of his staying political power, as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar moves to quash the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC), which’s affirmed him (Tinubu) as winner …

By Ehichioya Ezomon  “He who is begged or pleaded with is king,” is an adage that the average Edo person doesn’t take for granted, mostly if the act for which forgiveness is sought is committed publicly – such that the aggrieved feels slighted and injured – and the mollification is …

By Ehichioya Ezomon  The faceoff between Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu recalls to mind a popular meme – “If Men Were God” – adopted by a transport company plying many routes across Nigeria.  The phrase was left hanging without supplying what would happen were men to be …

By Ehichioya Ezomon  In weeks, the Supreme Court may be called upon to decide whether to admit new evidence on appeals from the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) that ruled on petitions from the February 25 election. The five-member tribunal dismissed the petitions by opposition candidates and their parties, seeking …

By Ehichioya Ezomon  In my May 15, 2023, article in New Telegraph on, ‘Election Petitions: Need for litigants and judges to avoid technicalities,’ I referenced an opinion piece by lawyer and rights activist, Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) on, ‘The evils of technical justice.’  Adegboruwa’s article of February 2, 2021 (SaharaReporters) stemmed …

By Young Erhiurhoro In this digital and computer age, there are so many cultural changes affecting many communities in Africa nay the Urhobo ethnic nation either for good or bad. No doubt, many of our cultural values, beliefs and traditions are gradually fizzling away from many Urhobo and Isoko communities …

By Ehichioya Ezomon  The import of August 19 pledge by the military junta in Niger Republic to transition for three years before returning the country to civil rule wasn’t lost on observers of the July 26 coup d’etat in the country. The coupists’ message was twofold: Consolidate their forceful hold …

By Ehichioya Ezomon  Five months after the 2023 General Election, politics and politicking has resumed in four states of Bayelsa, Edo, Kogi and Imo for off-seaon balloting in the states controlled, two apiece, by lead opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The two dominant …