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By Casmir Igbokwe ‘Ngaahika Ndeenda’ (I Will Marry When I Want) is a controversial play written by Kenyan authors, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ngugi wa Mirii. The play was staged in some parts of Kenya on June 1, 2022 when that country marked its 59th anniversary of internal self-rule. The drama revolves around Kikuunda, a peasant whose small piece of land ...

By Casmir Igbokwe Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu are desperate to rule Nigeria. This is understandable seeing that, at over 70 years, both are playing in injury time. They very much wish to score a goal and win the presidential game. They know that, if they fail to get it this time, they may never get it again. ...

By Casmir Igbokwe An Igbo adage says a child who dances melodious ‘surugede’ does not know that ‘surugede’ is a song of the spirits. The road to 2023 general election is filled with many ‘surugede’ dancers. But, in a bid to out-dance one another, they fail to realize that those beating the drums for them in the bush are possessed ...

Ahead of its primaries, Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has decided to throw open its 2023 presidential ticket to all sections of the country. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this at the end of the PDP’s National Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. The decision to throw open the ticket he said, was in line with ...

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party is currently battling a crisis over the refusal of the southern and northern elements to agree on zoning, The PUNCH has learnt. Impeccable sources within the PDP told The PUNCH on Wednesday that the crisis was worsened by the absence of a defined leader, who could bring together opposing forces to reach an agreement. The PUNCH gathered that because ...

…promises to build Jos into international city Frontline 2023 presidential aspirant, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has urged the people of the North Central geo-political zone to resist social injustice in Nigeria reminding them that their zone and the southeast zone face similar problems in the country. Anyim who said these on Monday while addressing leaders and delegates of his Party, ...

Against the backdrop of efforts by aspirants for the 2023 presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the 2019 vice presidential candidate of the party and one of the hopefuls, Peter Obi, has said that it would be the decision of the party to decide the zone to produce the flag bearer, taking into consideration, such critical factors as ...

By Casmir Igbokwe I hold former Nigerian Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in high esteem. In 2019, I voted for him to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari. Many other Nigerians also campaigned and voted for him. Although many of our votes did not count, we believed that the former VP would have done far better than the incumbent President. He is ...

There are strong indications that the All Progressives Congress is in a dilemma over the zoning of the 2023 presidency. The PUNCH gathered on Sunday that although the party was looking southwards to pick its presidential candidate, there was a strong possibility that it could still throw the race open for both northern and southern aspirants. A top leader of the ...

An independent survey conducted by an international policy and governance think-tank, the Council on African World Affairs, has rated Mr Valentine Ozigbo as the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) aspirant with the highest chances of winning the upcoming Anambra governorship election. In the statement made available to the press on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, the Washington DC-based Council on African World ...