The truth about federalism, By Dakuku Peterside
The problem with this call has been the connotations it carries. Agitation for “true“ federalism or restructuring has refused to be jettisoned out of our […]
Column – Monday
Buhari’s outreach to the Southeast, By Dakuku Peterside
Symbolic gestures are particularly evident in Africa. Ndigbo or South easterners, more than any other group, attach importance to symbolic gestures. It is ingrained in […]
Plateau of crises and deaths, By Dakuku Peterside
Plateau State is named Plateau for a reason. It is approximately the Centre of Nigeria and the midpoint between Christian and Muslim civilisations in Nigeria, […]
Striking the soul of the nation, By Dakuku Peterside
Omoni Oboli’s “Wives on Strike” is a blockbuster Nollywood movie where four semi-illiterate market women eagerly protest a child marriage anathema. Amina’s dad has compelled […]
Post Afghanistan implications for Nigeria, By Dakuku Peterside
In the past week, the unfolding events in Afghanistan have dominated the media space. The seemingly unimaginable happened. The Taliban forces marched into the capital, […]
Siege on political parties, By Dakuku Peterside
Reading through the newspapers and social media in the past two weeks, I found myself thinking how nothing much seems to have changed in the […]
2023: The familiar as unknown (3), By Dakuku Peterside
We started this series penultimate week with permutations regarding the conventions and congresses of Nigeria’s two major political parties – the ruling All Progressives Congress […]
2023: The familiar as unknown (2), By Dakuku Peterside
Last week we started a series about possible scenarios in our match to the decisive year 2023. The year 2023 represents a watershed of a […]
2023: The familiar as unknown (1), By Dakuku Peterside
You could call it premonitions, dreams, forecasts, or revelations. I have a clear guesstimate of possible scenarios that will shape our political future and help […]
Beyond quantity – Rethinking university education in Nigeria, By Dakuku Peterside
The hallmark of productivity is improvement in quantity and quality. If one of these standards is sacrificed for the other, needed development is compromised. This […]
Loopholes in the Electoral Act amendment bill, By Dakuku Peterside
Traditional wrestling in the southern part of Nigeria is intriguing and exciting. To the uninitiated, it would appear there are no rules, but to those […]
Power begins with voter registration, By Dakuku Peterside
It is a cliche to refer to youths as “future leaders of Nigeria”, ignoring the fact that they have a role to play now in […]
Gov Wike: Facts versus propaganda, By Dakuku Peterside
Penultimate week, on the 19th of June, a respected Nigerian columnist published information he gathered from field visits, agents and officials of the government of […]
School kidnappings: Implications on posterity, By Dakuku Peterside
“When the spate of recent school kidnappings is added to an already bad situation, the result is a reduction in community and parental trust in […]
Deep Blue Project: Taking the Fight to the Pirates, By Dakuku Peterside
With each passing day as a nation, it becomes more apparent that we have too much on our plate. The challenge of unemployment, poverty, widespread […]
Fighting a losing war with Twitter, By Dakuku Peterside
It began with a tweet on June 1, 2021, from President Muhammadu Buhari’s Twitter handle @MBuhari. He reprimanded angry youths “misbehaving” and alluded to his […]
Transcending the challenging times with inspiring leadership, By Dakuku Peterside
Criticism makes leaders wake up, and it puts them on their toes. It is a natural component of leadership. We all acknowledge that it is […]
Secessionist agitations in Nigeria and Israel-Palestinian conundrum, By Dakuku Peterside
Perhaps no conflict in the world has lasted so long, generated as many news headlines, or engendered as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict […]
Rumblings from the South, By Dakuku Peterside
The amalgamation of Southern and Northern Nigeria protectorates in 1914 to form the Nigerian state seems unfinished. Since this union, there has been constant and […]
The scourge of ritual killings in Nigeria, By Dakuku Peterside
Iniobong Umoren was a young woman in her early 20’s who lived in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. She shared, on Twitter, her need for a job, […]