NOW THAT THE POLITY IS HEATED…

By Tolulope Isaac

“Your success is not only yours. It’s Nigeria's success. Generations’ unborn successes”

...two sides of the coin

The atmosphere surrounding our political transition in the past few weeks is no doubt very much heated and tensed. You and I know that quite alright. Social media and press outfits buzz by the second with hit and run innuendoes, sarcastic bullets of words and outrageously death-wishing advertorials. The latest and most noticeable happenstance being the death-wish advertorial sponsored by Gov. Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on Punch and Sun Newspapers against you-know-who. It is therefore not out of place if I opine that Nigeria’s political climate is at the highest degree of Fahrenheitial (my word) heat. All issues surrounding politics now are on high alert with strict sensitivity and no margin for error whatsoever.

VOTE YOUR CHOICE

By Adeyemi Adeniyi

“We cannot afford to make a wrong choice for another four years. Vote your choice. Vote wisely.”

 It is not unsafe for me to postulate that politics has been practiced in Nigeria today has never been right. If at some point it was, water must have slipped away from the bridge of knowledge. It saddens me at heart to witness how democracy, a form of governance which patriots and martyrs has witnessed been reduced from the real meaning as defined by Abraham Lincoln, government of the people, by the people, and for the people to a deadly, must-win game played by few people, on many people, and against most people. It has grown so worse that players in this sanity-threatening game have to be tacticians as in this game, only players with crooked tactics and sinister hearts wins.

SHOW SOME LOVE...UNDERSTAND THEM

By Tony Joy

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Often times we are made to nurture the feelings of hate, fear and dejection. We are either left at the mercies of others with little or no care given us. In fact, some parents would rather curse the day they gave us to mother earth than keep us as theirs. Some have even gone as far as forgetting us in gutters so as not to face the trauma of having to take care of us. Some say we are nothing but an abomination and a shame to the family and not worth the money.

MAY YOUR ROAD BE ROUGH

By Tai Solarin

I am not cursing you. I am only wishing you what I wish myself every year. I therefore repeat, may you have a hard time this year, may there be plenty of troubles for you this year! If you are unsure of what you should say back, why not just say; ‘same to you’. I ask for no more.