Third term agenda and the Buhari we don’t know
Banji Ojewale Some compatriots say we wouldn’t know the real man we have as our president until the chickens come home to roost in 2023. In that year, would President MuhammaduBuhari have removed the...
View ArticleFrancis, the Pope for the youths
Emmanuel Onwubiko Pope Saint John Paul the Second is perhaps one of the few modern day Popes that made significant impacts in the annals of the sacred papacy as a constantly travelling holy father who...
View ArticleMatters arising from Bayelsa governorship poll
There are certain things in life that are possible to predict with some measure of precision. Politics is not one of them. One major event may just be enough to alter pundits’ permutations. That is...
View ArticleMatters arising from Bayelsa governorship poll
There are certain things in life that are possible to predict with some measure of precision. Politics is not one of them. One major event may just be enough to alter pundits’ permutations. That is...
View ArticleDisobedience to court order: taming the looming anarchy
Rilwan Balogun Dear President Buhari, Let me commence by stating that, I did not intend to achieve any parochial or cynical interest for making this a public consumption, no matter how minute it may be...
View ArticleProcessed foods: medicine or toxin?
Kayode Ojewale Most times we are compelled to take a closer look at what we consume only when we are ill or when the body begins to show strange symptoms. Sometimes, we adhere strictly to taking some...
View ArticleImo election petitions: blackmail won’t work
Ossai Ukwu A few weeks ago, the Court of Appeal seating in Abuja adjudicated on the Imo State governorship election petition. The court upheld the earlier verdict of the Imo State Governorship Election...
View ArticleMountain Top University: Blazing the trail
Promise Adiele During my formative years as a scholar, I struggled to come to terms with the works of American poet, Joachin Miller, apparently because some of them combine a sense of majesty and...
View ArticleNIPOST, FIRS and stamp duty collection By
Abiodun Komolafe It is neither a bad idea for the Federal Government to take measures aimed at bolstering the total revenue accruable to its purse, nor was it ignoble or less productive for its...
View ArticleLetter to Buhari on police “checkpoints” (1)
Chuks Iloegbunam Dear Mr. President, Travelling from Lagos to Anambra State on November 9, 2019, I counted 67 “checkpoints” mostly manned by armed men of the Police Mobile Force along the 371 kilometre...
View ArticleAkwa Ibom Senatorial Rerun: Why INEC must not allow APC to replace Akpabio...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been warned to avoid allowing itself to be used to perpetrate illegality by accepting a new candidate from the All Progressives Congress (APC)...
View ArticleGarlands for Senator Abiola Ajimobi at 70
In a few hours, precisely December 16, the immediate past governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi will celebrate his 70th birthday. There’s no doubt that this is a major, significant milestone in...
View ArticleCKC, ‘76 set and their alma mater
Chike Anyaonu In a matter of weeks, Saturday, December 28, 2019 precisely, history will be made at Christ the King College (CKC), Onitsha as the 1976 set of this great institution plans to give back to...
View ArticleTribute to Isaac Delano
Toyin Falola History, it is said, would always remember the brave and the weak, but with different records of deeds. For Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano, who died 40 years ago, it is indeed a record of...
View ArticleWe’re all guilty of xenophobia
ERIC TENIOLA It’s sad, very sad but we must admit that xenophobia is still subsisting in today’s world. Xenophobia did not start in South Africa and it will not end in South Africa. Nigeria now a...
View ArticleYour Excellency, the SGF!
Yinka Olujimi Your Excellency, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation! How sweet! Is anyone still in doubt that we are not only in government but also in power? One by one, the junior...
View ArticleNigeria and leadership challenge
Chiedu Uche Okoye It is an incontrovertible fact that good and purposeful political leadership is the sine qua non for development in any country.So, no country in our today’s world can rise above...
View ArticleGood talk, Aisha Buhari; but who will bell the cat?
Banji Ojewale No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable – Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher About the...
View ArticleMy take on NCC & Glo’s 50m subscriber base
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in its latest report last week declared that telecommunications Trojan, Globacom, topped the subscriber gainers’ chart by adding more than one million new...
View ArticleNDDC Board: A seed of discord between Buhari and Senate?
Taiye Odewale The slight disagreement between President Muhamnadu Buhari and the Senate on NDDC’s board to be recognised seems a seed of discord that may tear their harmonious relationship apart...
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