Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Amb. Lilian Onoh (Chief C.C Onoh's Daughter)
In 1970, shortly after the Civil War, my sister’s secondary school had a temporary English teacher who taught them the immortal nonsense: “I threw the ball and catched it,” being the past tense of the verb “to catch.”
By Emmanuel Ogebe
Nigeria’s epic presidential election challenge, which I had flown from Washington to cover over the summer, just ended with a 13-hour live broadcast. It was tiring even watching from my home in Washington and not from my tight courtroom seat.
By Steve Osuji
JUDGMENT WITHOUT JUSTICE: It was an unduly long and tiresome pronouncement last Wednesday, 6th of September. One couldn’t help but feel for lead justice, Simon Tsammani. For over 12 hours, he rattled on and on like a cranky molue.
By Chido Nwakanmma
Reactions to the PEPT judgement across several platforms confirm the broad division in our land. The division is political, ethnic, and regional and takes other forms.
By Bola Bolawole
All around us, the barrel of a gun is seeking justice for the long-suffering, long-oppressed, long-pauperised, and long-marginalised African. Chad, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and now Gabon, the military have deposed sit-tight civilian dictators and are railing at the French colonial masters that has sustained the caricatures of leaders in office. France has only acted in its own self, even selfish, interests; it has maintained in office spineless African leaders who let her exploit the resources of the erstwhile colonies for next-to-nothing. The colonies of France in Africa might have been given flag Independence; they remain, in words as in deed, slaves of the French. Their resources are mindlessly exploited to gift the metropolitan power the comforts and privileges of a First World country while the African backwoods remain, like the biblical Israelites of yore, hewers of wood and fetchers of water.
By Azu Ishiekwene
It’s more than one year to the next governorship election in Edo State, which prides itself on being the “heartbeat of the nation”. But in a maelstrom that has forced the state’s heart to beat faster than is good for it, you would be forgiven to think the election is tomorrow.
