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Osun Election: Victory For The People

The result of the just-concluded governorship election in Osun State still resonates across the country at deafening decibels. Everybody is celebrating the Accord Party’s...

Osun election: Between hope and fear

Hope springs eternal, and with elections just days away to determine the next governor of Osun State, we should strive to keep the hope...

President Tinubu’s Recent Lines of War

President Bola Tinubu recently set Nigeria’s political spaces on fire by declaring that “all is fair in politics”. According to the president, killing, cheating,...

What’s a Nigerian Worth?

In a sense, the debate over the minimum wage for Nigerian workers raises a more fundamental question: What’s a Nigerian worth? And since there are different kinds of Nigerians, one ought to clarify that the question, at the deepest level, has to do with the least privileged of Nigerians...

Still Nigeria Rises

Boko Haram, MEND, bombings, kidnappings, political schemings and all, can only but last a moment. Battered though Nigeria might be by all your efforts...

Comparing nigeria with developing or developed countries

That I frequently hear Nigerians, educated and exposed, make illogical excuses for Nigeria is unexplainable. This weird idea of rebuffing anybody who dares to ask why Nigeria, in spite of her natural and human endowments, is not sitting up the ladder of developed countries is first of all sycophancy of the first degree...

Amaechi’s Sanitation Decision The Frustration Of Residents

Majority of the Rivers masses are today laughing at people like Ige, who saw the Ikoku spare parts market as the only place where poor sanitary condition was in Port Harcourt, and shut it...

Let us reform or disband this NTA

NTA is an open wound that hurts millions of Nigerians within and beyond the shores of Nigeria and it needs urgent healing; there is no other way of saying it, this NTA as it stands today needs to be either thoroughly reformed or completely disbanded...

‘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...

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...

Further and Better Assessment of Transformation in Nigeria 2

In the grammar of Nigerian politics, things are easier said than done. The declaration by this administration that it proposes to transform Nigeria tacitly implies that past Nigerian governments had failed to seriously confront political, economic and social development challenges in our country...

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Boko Haram, Human-gods, and Allah’s Will

I love Allah, he is a merciful God. I know you love Allah too, he is a God of peace. Allah will not ask you to go and destroy innocent lives...

Yes, INEC Has Lost The Game

It is necessary to state from the very outset that whatever difficulties INEC claims to be facing currently in the discharge of its constitutional responsibility – conduct of free, fair and credible polls – were avoidable...

June and its Disappointing Tales

June, the 6th month of the year and the...

Aso Rock Media High Command: From Dream To Nightmare

As head of the Aso Rock media high command and undoubetedly its fugleman in the black arts of spin doctoring, Reuben Abati failed woefully in the way he communicated with the public during Jonathan’s worst and fractious week in government...

Comprehensive Health Centres: Lagos State and Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria

Nigerian governments, over the years, have voted barely single digits of our budgets to health contrary to international recommendations and the requirements of the World Health Organisation...

Agbani Darego and the fallacies of Uche Nworah

Men encouraged women, or at the very least, acquiesced to whatever indecent behavior we may associate with women. And in some cases, men forced women to engage in indecency. Men, we all know, are the repository for licentiousness...

About Life’s Tragedies

One thing about impartial, dead reality is that ubiquitous tragedies - feared guests you hate to have at your table - imperiously find their uncheerful, rugged routes to your life anyway. Tragedies are ostensibly mere alien stories when you are not a victim of their brutality...

Oyebanji: Knowledge, Development And Human Wellbeing

Since assuming office as the Governor of Ekiti State...

Tinubu’s Strategic Outburst, Buhari’s Undoing

The media space was awash with the video clips...

As Kalu Dialogues For National Dialogue

Nigerians are contributing their voices to the national dialogue that was given heed by President Goodluck Jonathan on Oct. 1st...