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Malawi Opinions 

Opinion: Keeping Malawi’s Tripartite Elections Calendar Inviolable

Global Author,
By Maxwell Chisala Although Malawi’s constitutional-experiment survived its biggest test arising from the now-confirmed bungled 2019 Presidential election, Malawi’s ballot-box democracy experiment will continue smarting from Parliament’s self-serving legislative decision to extend its current tenure beyond the constitutionally prescribed five-year term, long after books on ‘widespread, systematic and grave’ irregularities and anomalies that seriously compromised the integrity of the results… Read More
Opinions Sudan 

The Real Price of Marriage in South Sudan

Village Reporter,
By Hanna HassanVirginia, USA August of this year will mark the one-year anniversary of the end of South Sudan’s civil war, yet recent surges of violence suggest that peace is far from being realized. These attacks by armed groups include instances of sexual violence against women and girls. Sexual and gender-based violence (GBV) continues to be a significant characteristic in… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Twitter Ban: Welcome To A Reloaded Version Of Dictator Buhari’s 1984, By Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed

Elwin Mandowa,
Nigeria is a country where its daily catalogue contains spilling of human blood, killings, rape and human slaughter. The pelvic girdle as a structure that holds the country has been damaged by nepotism and egocentricity by a man who turns deaf ears to people’s yearnings.  Killings and kidnappings have been allowed to reign and made a lucrative business in Nigeria,… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Igangan Massacre: Buhari And Ethnic Cleansing Of Yorubas By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Elwin Mandowa,
General Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign to cleanse Yoruba territory of Nigeria assumes a gruesome and tragic indiscriminate slaughtering of Igangan people. Given the hatred and hostility of Fulanis, the latest attack is neither new nor remarkable. According to SaharaReporters, Fulani herdsmen arrived Igangan in Ibarapa North area of Oyo State around 11 pm Saturday, leaving early Sunday morning with 10 persons… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Who Offended Buhari? Twitter or Nigerians? By Fredrick Nwabufo

Elwin Mandowa,
Government is a relationship – between the leadership and the governed. A democratic government, in particular, should not operate in vacancy of citizens’ imprimatur. A government needs the trust, support and goodwill of its citizens. Legitimacy is the reward for good governance. Any government, which by intransigence severs the funiculus that links it with the citizens, is taking the highroad… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Ogun State Education System On The Verge Of Being Bastardised Under The Watch Of The So Called Education Guru By Balogun R. Oluwafemi

Elwin Mandowa,
I have pondered over time, on whether the youth (myself inclusive) are prepared and ready for the mantle of leadership if we have the opportunity, and I conclusively agreed with some elders notion who are afraid of entrusting the younger ones with a leadership position, because a larger number of the youth LACK AN IN-DEPTH ANALYTICAL SKILLS required to become… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

The Battles Of Ibadan In The June 12 Uprising, By Owei Lakemfa

Elwin Mandowa,
The bloody five-year pro-democracy uprising that forced the military back to the barracks after a cumulative 29-year military dictatorship began on Monday July 5, 1993. Hundreds of lives were lost. Some of the bloodiest battles were fought in Ibadan on Tuesday April 14 and Friday May 1, 1998. Ibadan is the traditional capital of the West where after the stiff… Read More
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