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Famous Nigerian femunist activist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recently spoke with The Guardian UK and she touched on topics such as feminism, racism, how pregnancy affects women’s growth, the #MeToo movement and women and the culture of likeability. She also explained why she's not on Twitter. Speaking on the #MeToo movement, the Purple Hibiscus author said: I feel optimistic. But cautiously optimistic. It’s either the beginning of a revolution, or it is going to be a fad. We just don’t know … I do see in women a sense that ‘We’re done, this is it ... No.’ and it gives me hope. The award-winning writer spoke about her fight against sexism. She had written in  Dear Ijeawele: A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions that she is angrier about sexism than she is about racism. Explaining what she means by this, Ms. Adichie said: I don’t think sexism is worse than racism, it’s impossible even to compare. It’s that I feel lonely in my fight against sexism, in a way that I don’t feel ...

Writer and journalist Fredrick Nwabufo replies author, Chimamanda Adichie after she questioned why former First Lady Hilary Clinton would describe herself first as a wife considering all her accomplishments. Read the full article below.. Who made Chimamanda Adichie the supremo of feminism? Who made her the feminist papal? How did she become the feminist potentate? By asking Hilary Clinton, former US presidential candidate, why her Twitter bio starts with “wife’, Chimamanda has not only intruded into the personal business of Clinton, but also scorned a key principle of feminism – “choice”. Besides other leanings, feminism entails freedom of choice. A woman is at liberty to be anything she wants to be – doctor, lawyer, housewife or mother. The right to choose is principal, and this should not be prejudiced. Setting straightjacket standards and rules, which Chimamanda’s brand of feminism promotes, will result in a second captivity – by matriarchal she-lords. Notable feminists of ...

Earlier today ,the social media was thrown into confusion over comment made by one Professor Umar Labdo Muhammad. where he stated that, 'BENUE STATE BELONGS TO THE FULANI BY RIGHT OF CONQUEST'.  He wrote; Benue State belongs to the Fulani people by right of conquest. This is because half of the state is part of the Bauchi Emirate and the other half is part of the Adamawa Emirate. Benue is therefore part and parcel of the Sokoto Caliphate. So no one has the right to expel the Fulani from Benue under any guise. Second to the Arabs, perhaps the Fulani are the most benevolent and merciful conquerors in history. If they had applied the Nazi final solution to the natives, or if they had treated them the same way the European settlers treated Red Indians in North America or the Aborigines in Australia, the story would have been different toady. The Fulani are the largest single nation in West Africa and, perhaps, on the whole continent and they have remained unbeatable through...

By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, thanks for the deluge of messages and phone calls last week after reading my memo to our dear President. I doubt if any article of mine ever generated such amazing interest from the rich and poor, educated and not so educated, alike. The closest to it would be the letter I wrote to our wonderful First Lady of yore, Dame Patience Jonathan at the peak of PDP rascality.

Nigeria's former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani Kayode, has described Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai as a backstabber in a series of tweets.

The former commissioner of police , Alahaji Abubakar Tsav who has been a strong critique of the Benue state government ever since it emergence dropped this major bombshell on the 6th of January 2016.

 Joy Isi Bewaji, Writes about Linda Ikeji on www.happenings.com.ng . Please read below...

What Baba did was to look beyond the oil and diversify the nation’s economy. He conspicuously invested in the agricultural sector and also developed a tangible and plausible framework for other mineral resources to be harnessed.

By Abraham Orkuma Ortom is feasting on elephant meat at Benue people expense. Ortom has proved again and again just how little he cares about the people whose catastrophic situation his is engineering

     By Emmanuel Akosu Early in the life of the new administration, a member of the Federal House of Representative  from Benue State, Hon Benjamin Wayo ESQ had questioned the rationale behind the nomination of an Idoma, Chief Audu Ogbeh as Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria over and above the Tiv who had overwhelmingly ensured the successful election of President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR far above their Idoma neighbours. Being that the Idomas had voted massively for the PDP in the last April, 2015 general elections with over 90% of Tiv casting their bet on the APC and President Buhari to ensure he won Benue state convincingly.

By Peter Shande  It was September 2006, that Wantaregh Paul Iyorpuu Unongo was finally convinced to abandon his consistent opposition to the central government and join Olusegun Obasanjo in the PDP. Samuel Adaa Maagbe was the liaison between Obasanjo and Unongo in the scheme that Maagbe claimed was going to network the Tiv into central participation in Nigerian affairs. Being part of a prayer group in the Villa, which comprised others like Prof Jerry Gana, Adaa Maagbe became a constant visitor to the Kwame Nkrumah residence of Unongo at Asokoro, pleading Obasanjo’s cause, wheedling and offering guarantees.

Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Wednesday, spoke about racial issues in America and the continual reports of black people killed by police.

By Stephen Akuma A nincompoop will say “Stephen you have changed from being a nationalist to an ethnic bigot”. To the nincompoop, being a nationalist is to keep quiet and watch your people die in the hands of Fulani terrorists while you shout and cry for “core” Northerners when they are attacked by Islamic terrorists (Boko Haram). In the last election, most Christian/Minorities in the MiddleBelt supported a Fulani/Muslim man against a minority/Christian man because they feel they will get a better president in Buhari. So while we were calling for a better Nigerian president, they were agitating for power to return to the “core” North. To some of them, they have used us to install their brother; over 99% of the “core” Northerners voted Buhari simply because he is a Hausa/Fulani Muslim. When Buhari came in, we tried to give him some early support despite some of his wrong decisions. The more we gave him cover, they more they saw us as willing puppets to be used...

 A member of the United States Congress, Tom Marino, has written a letter to Secretary of State, John Kerry, asking the US government to withhold security assistance to Nigeria until President Muhammadu Buhari demonstrates a “commitment to inclusive government and the most basic tenets of democracy: freedom to assemble and freedom of speech”. He also asked the State Department to refrain from selling warplanes and other military equipment to Nigeria until President Buhari establishes a track record of working towards inclusion.   In a two-page letter dated September 1, 2016 and addressed to Kerry, a copy of which was exclusively obtained by THISDAY yesterday, Marino, a Republican from Pennsylvania who assumed office on January 3, 2011, said there were a number of warning signs emerging in the Buhari administration that signal “the man who once led Nigeria as a military dictator might be sliding towards former autocratic tendencies”. The Congressman, who is a member of ...

The Former media aide to ex- President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Reuben Abati has called on Femi Fani-Kayode and Reno Omokri to shield their sword over Fecebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Nigeria.

WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO, DO IT QUICK.... The Nigerian State governments have to be treated like primary school pupils. If they don't know their contributions to take the nation out of this current mess. Here is my suggestions in the area of rice production for example.

By Orshi Daniel Following Ewerem’s ouster, the Oyi of Oyi, Chuba Okadigbo mounted the seat of the Senate President. His leadership ushered in the most cerebral and robust Senate.

By Orshi Daniel   “Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason.”- Jose Maria de Eca Queiroz.

By Orshi Daniel  “The greatest authority which a legislature wields in a democratic society is not its legal powers as contained in the constitution, but its moral authority, as the conscience of the nation and the protector of the sovereignty of the people. Thus, members of the legislature must be men and women of high moral authority and integrity.” Professor Itse Sagay, SAN. The events of last Tuesday and Thursday on the floor of the Benue State House of Assembly should serve as an early warning signal to democrats.

By Orshi Daniel Last Tuesday, the political health of the 8th Benue State House of Assembly was nearly thrown into coma following unrest on the floor of the Assembly as reported by both the print and electronic media.