By Jude Ogechi Eze

"When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state." - Euripides

“You will find Nigeria a very interesting country" wrote P. Nwadike, "if you have the right mix of narcissism, sarcasm and sadism.” The unveiling of Senator Kashim Shettima as the Vice Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming 2023 general election threw up yet another scathing cocktail of sarcasm and sadism. Some great men of letters in sacred science like Thomas Aquinas had argued that no sin of lying exists alone. It has multiple subsets of itself trying to cover the primordial cause. To cover the sin of lying, man blows more lies. It was likened to digging holes to fill a hole.

By Azu Ishiekwene

The advent of any significant changes in technology has often triggered concerns about the fate of journalism. Even at the infancy of social media, TIME covered one of its editions of February 5, 2009, with concern about the imminent death of journalism. To drive home the point, the graphic was illustrated with a copy of the New York Times wrapping a tilapia.

By Bola Bolawole

Vice presidents are ineffective and ineffectual spare tyres that are hardly put to use. That has been our experience here. Otherwise, tell me, of what benefit has the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, a senior pastor at the Redeemed Christian of God, been to Christians and Christianity in their hours of need? VPs are near worthless even in the advanced democracies, such that when a presidential aspirant in the US lost his party nomination and was asked if he would consent to being the running mate to the winner, he quipped: “I hate all vices, including the vice presidency”! In the same US, they have a cliche, to wit, that the vice president is to be seen, and not to be heard.

By Jude Ogechi Eze

Tuesday last week defined more concretely our previous assertion here that 2023 general election may be the most critically decisive poll in the anals of our national history. I was having a rough time, trying to tie off a tragedy that befall my family two weeks ago, which kept me away from this space for the first time in four years, when barrage of messages filtered into my WhatsApp, followed by torrential calls. It was so urgent, I had to mute notifications.

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