What Nigeria must do to avoid disintegration –Oyebola
From Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan Chief Areoye Oyebola is former President, Nigerian Guild of Editors and former Commissioner for Information, Internal Affairs and Local Government in the old Western State and...
View ArticleWasted billions: Black pots and kettles everywhere
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, hit the headlines yesterday with his castigation of Niger Delta leaders whom he challenged to come clean on how they spent the billions of naira in oil revenue...
View ArticleNiger Delta: Why Buhari should not use force
By Onyebuchi Onyegbule First, the problem with the change-mantra which Nigerians voted for is the omission of ‘Direction’. To assume that a change will move forward and better may turn a daunter if it...
View ArticleThe herdsmen killings
By Okechukwu Keshi Ukegbu IF urgent steps are not taken by the federal government to check killings by herdsmen who are ravaging many parts of the country, we will have a serious emergency on our...
View ArticleBenue State workers’ plight
By LUCY ONYANJO EIGEGE Benue State citizenry during the last general elections in 2015 had vehemently voted in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The reason for voting out the People’s...
View ArticleNASS: A dark history (1)
Barely a week after the National Assembly was inaugurated in June 1999, it was discovered that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Salisu Buhari, not only forged his education certificates he...
View ArticleNigeria’s poor outing at Rio Olympics
By PAUL OJENAGBON BUT for the consolatory bronze medal the U-23 Soccer team achieved, the country’s huge contingent to the 2016 Rio Olympics would have come back completely empty-handed just as it did...
View ArticleThe youth and joblessness: Nigeria’s enigma
Concluding his address to the youth of the diocese of Abruzzo and Molise, Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows, Castelpetroso, Italy on July 5, 2014, Pope Francis said, “I would not like to finish without...
View ArticleA case for Internally Displaced Persons
By UGOCHUKWU AMASIKE Recently, the United Nations, through its special Rappouteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s), Professor Beyani Chaloka, called on the Federal...
View ArticleTrouble and depression in the land
TheRE is problem in the land or more specifically, there’s problem in Nigeria. But before continuing, it’s essential I recall few instances of what happened during the week to buttress the issues I...
View ArticleObaseki, Ize-Iyamu and Edo 2016
By David Imafidon Adonri The gubernatorial election of Edo State is on September 10, 2016. Tempo of campaign has already escalated to feverish level. Worthy of note is that the contest is devoid of...
View ArticlePeterside and APC fantasy
As the October date for the rescheduled Rivers rerun poll is fast approaching, the ominous signals coming from certain politicians in the state leave much to be desired. The recent statement by the...
View ArticleHow clinical pharmacy supports development goals
By Fola Tayo The year 2000 was an exciting year in contemporary history. It was a year during which many felt a certain sense of accomplishment in witnessing a transition not from one decade or...
View ArticleWhat is Buhari doing with economy?
By Garba Shehu LET me start by asking an important question: who wants kill racy introspection? There is a cacophony of voices telling the Muhammadu Buhari administration to close its eyes to the past,...
View ArticleNeed for continuity in Edo State
By Sunny Edoja The people of Edo State will go to the polls to choose Adam Oshiomhole’s successor on September 10,2016. The campaigns have reached a crescendo as the two major candidates, Obaseki and...
View ArticleBefore Edo is set on fire…
By Sufuyan Ojeifo Political extremism was an outrageous flaunt by the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2015 general elections: to win at all costs. It was accompanied by virulent propaganda...
View ArticleWhy dialogue with Niger Delta militants must not fail
By The Federal Insignia While it can be argued that Nigeria is far from economic redemption, the truce by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a group that has almost single-handedly crippled oil...
View ArticleHuman Rights Commission: Fiddling while Rome burns
By Joe Ubeh NOT a few Nigerians have knocked the report recently issued by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on the Nigerian elections. Among the latest to spank the report was the immediate...
View ArticleNew deal for the physically challenged
By Rasak Musbau OF late, the management of people living with disability in Lagos State has received tremendous boost. This actually started with the creation of Lagos State Office for Disability...
View ArticleOsun at 25
By ISIAKA A. ADELEKE LET me say that divine providence, coupled with very selfless urge to serve the people, primarily informed my incursion, as they would say into, “the murky water” of politics....
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