Rose Moses on the Xpress

By Rose MOSES An Ogoni man from Rivers State, it would appear, was recently used to attack the governors of Rivers and Lagos states because of the ongoing cause célèbre over who should keep Value Added Tax (VAT) proceeds. The Federal…

By Rose MOSES Among the popular Nigerian jokes these days is, “What politicians cannot destroy does not exist.” Those bandying this joke are wont to ask you how else to explain that a country so naturally endowed like Nigeria can be led…

By Rose MOSES When the Nigerian viewer audience has become sick and tired of terrestrial television due to the daily harvests of local tragedies that tend to dominate the space, the unveiling, by Globacom, of Glo TV couldn’t have come at…

By Rose MOSES Since August 15, 2021, when the Taliban, the counterpart of Nigeria's homegrown Boko Haram militants, took power in faraway Afghanistan, it would seem most Nigerians have, outside of the now showing Big Brother Naija…

By Rose MOSES If the present federal government were able to do so, it could have you not just pay for, but also add premium tax on the air you breathe. Afterwards, the government would possibly blame it on the so-called mess caused by…

By Rose MOSES On July 26 or thereabouts, Nigeria woke up to a startling event that evoked mixed feelings across the federation. There were tears of joy and sadness. The setting was Nasir el-Rufai's Kaduna State, now the hotbed of…

By Rose MOSES On July 26 or thereabouts, Nigeria woke up to a startling event that evoked mixed feelings across the federation. There were tears of joy and sadness. The setting was Nasir el-Rufai's Kaduna State, now the hotbed of…

By Rose MOSES Recently and for the umpteenth time, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese was point-blank. Need I say that no one living in Nigeria today ever talks truth to power like him? In the madness and…

By Rose Moses Many watchers of the political scene, particularly the ‘lame-duck’ National Assembly, last week, and for a long time, had something to cheer about. To many , who are daily traumatized by the inclement ecosocial weather…

By Rose MOSES It is no news that Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was captured abroad and brought home to face his shit. He continued to face trial, having fled into exile after his family home in Abia…