Author: Emporium Reporters

In a world where it is considered more altruistic, fitting and popular for women to project feminism, where patriarchy has been accused of most crimes against women, and where patrilineal perspectives are seen as organically conferred with advantages, a young woman, Ameh Odachi, in addition to her conscious fight for women to have their fair share of the world, chose to call special attention to the circumstances of men.   With alluring candour and thirst, she tells everyone to behold the world of men differently – the burden of silence,…

This article was first published on April 11th, 2022. Last week, we revisited the first part because its message remains as relevant today as it was when it was published. Only that it is now: “No one is safe”, not only “nowhere”, with generals being killed on the roads (read General Alkali), abducted from their fortified homes (read General Tsafe), or whisked away on highways (read General Rabe), and killed in the bushes, not while on active service or as Prisoners of War (POWs), but as shackled captives. I believe…

Northern Nigeria is angry. This anger is not strictly borne from the unremitting, horrific spillage of blood on its soil. Rather, Northern Nigeria is angry because it has been rightly called by the name it gave itself.   Recently, the progeny of Shehu Usman dan Fodio – the 19th-century Islamic scholar and founder of the Sokoto Caliphate – have been losing their crème de la crème. Northern Nigerians are dying in droves, mostly at the hands of their own sons who have made the thick forests their comfortable abode. The…

When dispassionate commentaries are made by independent analysts in the fullness of time about the Tinubu presidency, a striking reality will emerge: he infused the political economy with fresh thinking. Let us be clear: it is not just about a birth date. As former Governor and Minister Babatunde Raji Fashola has often indicated, leadership is less about biological age and far more about the currency and age of one’s ideas.   President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has infused the polity with a new age predicated on fresh thinking, sweeping away the…

There are few spectacles more embarrassing in politics than a man arguing passionately against himself while pretending to be attacking someone else. Psychologists call this cognitive dissonance. The rest of us call it eating your own words without choking. It is a difficult performance. The audience remembers the speech made earlier out of conviction, the newspapers preserve the quotes, and the politician is left insisting that black is white and that he has always believed the reverse of what he said. This is a classic Catch-22 situation. Senator Adams Aliyu…