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The Impossible Death Of Dele Giwa

It has been 40 years since the satanic assassination of Dele Giwa through a letter bomb delivered to his home, but the departed iconic...

Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

​In the experience of Nigeria, focusing largely on the post-1999 return to democracy, second terms have turned out to be a mixed bag. Very...

Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Fela's Music Galvanise Protests Against Fuel Subsidy Removal In Nigeria

Even in death, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was larger than life. “I no be gentleman at all oh. I no be gentleman at all oh,” sang an angry wave of protesters among tens of thousands at the Gani Fawehinmi Park...

Quizzing President Jonathan: Beyond Fuel Subsidy

Why should Nigerians trust you and your government to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates and improve the country’s infrastructure when you can’t handle the simple task of identifying a handful of leeches who’ve been stealing from fuel subsidy funds?

The Two Opposing Worlds Of President Jonathan

Squandering of the goodwill of the good people of Nigeria! The spontaneous goodwill the Nigerian people had for President Jonathan has been squandered irretrievably. The Aso Rock lord has unwittingly dug his political grave...

This Jonathan must go

This Jonathan is made up of people who have so far shown themselves incapable of understanding or caring for Nigerians and the more they talk the worse they seem. For things to work again in Nigeria, this Jonathan must go. We must see a new Jonathan, one capable of listening to the many and standing up to the few...

Mistakes, Pains, and Gains of Fuel Removal – Interview with Mr. Odilim Enwegbara

If we agree that the best way to lead is to lead by example, we should then agree that in this mother of all sacrifices, the Presidency and the National Assembly should lead the sacrifice by making their financial recklessness a thing of the past...

Police, Federalism and Nigerian Democracy: A Case for Decentralization

The police are the entry point into the criminal justice system and the effectiveness of the system resides in the effectiveness of the police system as well as its other tag team in the criminal justice...

These People Sef

When a state, constituency or country is issued a bad leader, we grin and bear it for four interminable years. That needs to change. We need a process whereby bad leaders are kicked out by citizens, with minimal fuss...

Sovereign National Conference: For the Avoidance of Doubt

It has been widely reported in the media that Nobel Laureate and social activist, Professor Wole Soyinka and Yale educated economist, Olu Falae have declared their intention to convene a Sovereign National Conference in the immediate future...

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2023 Presidential Election: Very Curious Case of CITEC Estate, Mbora, Abuja

A lot of water has passed under the bridge...

Whiteman: The Heart of Our Darkness

Whiteman is an improbable tale told beautifully. It is possible but highly improbable that the main character could zip through a wide swathe of Africa and not meet an intellectual of stature that he can have an adult conversation with. People will see what they wish to see...

Bat Out of Hell

The enemies America has created over the years do not think about immigrants when they plot their dark acts. We're all Americans to them, and likely to be targets, especially now that America has decided to fight back.

President Jonathan and Juju Heritage of Cursing

President Goodluck Jonathan's invocation of curses on his appointed ministers may look like falling into our primordial and juju heritage, but the action has proved a sound point. "May your road be rough. May you have hard time this year. May you have plenty of troubles", are the curses hurled on his ministers to prepare them for the murderous task ahead...

Naija Notes: A Pox On You Sir!

IBB is a mere man, a sad and scared man, pursuing a vain campaign to reconstruct and rewrite history...

A Mother’s Christmas Present

I do not discuss my family because along the years, I have had to determine who is in and who stays out. I come from one of those families with countless children and a string of wives that surprise is a tool when a particular woman escaped the bedspread of the child making factory room...

Biafra: Now that Nwodo is Talking

I will start this report by drawing copious excerpts...

PDP's web of double-standards the vehicle riding against Nwodo

The event that saw to the emergence of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as the Peoples Democratic Party's national chairman was a two-horse race between him and the former National Vice Chairman, Mr. Chukwu Ozichukwu...

‘Joy of the Senate’: Does Jonathan sanction Rigging?

Emordi is like a student expelled from a school for worst of crimes, and who we all would agree without question cannot, in the very next breath, be contracted by the principal to advise him on student matters...