Why Ortom is not the defender of Benue valley
Terfa Naswem I am so disappointed in many in Benue State and elsewhere who are not only gullible but strong-willed to swim in ignorance and negligence that the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom is...
View ArticleBetween Buhari and Aregbesola
Lanre Matiluko The 2019 presidential and National Assembly elections have come and gone. But their ripples are very much around, especially the underwhelming performance of the All Progressives...
View ArticleRed flags in Saturday’s governorship poll
Sufuyan Ojeifo The dusts generated by the conduct and outcomes of the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly have yet to settle. The reason is that the presidential candidate of the opposition...
View ArticleThe role of women in raising good children
Samuel A. Ogungbemi Today, I join the rest of the world to celebrate the liberation of women and their remarkable contributions to reshaping the global world. There is no doubt that the world is not...
View ArticleOshiomhole and his playbook for APC’s victory
Patrick Obahiagbon Nigeria is the world’s fifth largest federation after India, the United States, Brazil and Russia. Almost 60 years after independence, Nigeria’s political leadership has rather been...
View ArticleLet’s move Nigeria forward
Without doubt, Nigerians did not bargain for the avoidable hitches that followed the 2019 presidential poll. They did not envisage that they will pass through such a harrowing experience in the course...
View ArticleHow Buhari won the battle
SKC Ogbonnia I am very happy that President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress (APC) won again in 2019, but I am equally finding it difficult to celebrate the victory. While accurately...
View ArticleThe value of a Nigerian life
Caleb Adebayo About a week ago, I was passing through one of Lagos’ very busy roads and an ambulance, its sirens blaring, was trying to weave its way through the traffic, repeatedly sounding its horn,...
View ArticleBuhari’s next level and Nigeria’s unity
Nweke Samuel Chinonso As a child that was born in the North Central part of Nigeria, Lafia in Nassarawa State to be precise, I grew up with Muslim kids in a Muslim dominated neighborhood. We played, we...
View ArticleResisting the assault on the spirit of Lagos
Tayo Ogunbiyi Highlighting the ethnic and tribal composition of our great country is always a hurting venture for patriotic and detribalized minds. One of the banes of the country’s march to greatness...
View ArticleBuhari’s re-election and matters arising
Carl Umegboro Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, President Muhammadu Buhari polled 15,191,847 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples’ Democratic Party who...
View ArticleSecond term: Can Buhari reinvent himself?
Banji Ojewale …We will continue to engage all parties that have the best interest of Nigerians at heart. Our government will remain inclusive and our doors will remain open. That is the way to build...
View ArticleExcise duties hike and revenue generation
Akinremi Sobowale In difficult economic situations, government and policy makers are faced with various policy options. These may include increasing taxes on luxury and lifestyle goods, while...
View ArticleThe menace of military involvement in our elections
Anyone who keenly followed the conduct and outcome of the just concluded general elections will never stop to wonder why things don’t follow the natural curve in Nigeria. From what we have seen so far,...
View ArticleDeconstructing Buhari’s ‘tough’ last term
Emmanuel Onwubiko As a young claretian who just got enlisted into the sacred vows of chastity, obedience and poverty in the claretian missionary sons of Mary of the Catholic Church in Utonkon, Benue...
View ArticleIssues in the governorship polls
The results of Saturday’s governorship and state Houses of Assembly polls are a mixed grill in different parts of the country. In the South West, but for the exception of Oyo State where the exercise...
View ArticleAfter the elections, what next?
Promise Adiele Many issues agitate my mind. I am weighed down by events in Nigeria since the beginning of this year. I concede that the portrait of a writer as a moral gadfly is constantly blurred by...
View ArticleOyetola’s poise to move Osun forward
Sola Fasure SATURDAY March 9, 2019 marked the 100th day in office of Mr Adegboyega Oyetola as Governor of the State of Osun. After serving as Chief of Staff to Governor Rauf Aregbesola who served two...
View ArticleNow is the time for the people’s constitution
Ayo Oyoze Baje AMENDMENT of a nation’s constitution is never a tea party. Especially given our peculiar challenges of long-drawn ethnic disharmony, political marginalization of some sections of the...
View ArticleUnemployment: Where are job creation strategies?
“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.” THOMAS CARLYLE, Chartism The above quote is aptly fitting for the...
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