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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,...

Boko Haram on Nigeria: Error On Terror!

Anyone who knows Nigeria very well has every reason to be surprised and worried about the recent bomb-blast at the Louis Edet building which housed the Nigerian police force headquarters at Abuja FCT....

Neither Speakership nor Chairmanship, Just a Yoruba Nation

What the people need is good education, good health care, massive infrastructural development, and an environment that allows trade and industry to flourish all in a vibrant intellectual environment...

Response to Maurice Iwu’s Rejoinder on the Sale of Nigeria’s Collective Inheritance

Nigeria and the rest of Africa should quit begging for crumbs from the West and begin to canvass for a change in the WTO agreements that leave the continent vulnerable to poachers of its indigenous knowledge. Clearly the drum beat must change so that the dance steps would change with it...

Spotlight on Dr. Dawari’s Reign as Commissioner for Energy Natural Resources

As commissioner, Rivers State, he made plans and developed a master plan for the state, which will enable the government to utilize gas for both domestic and industrial activities. His reign as Commissioner introduced a legislation that will enable intervention directly in the oil and gas sector...

Amaechi Odili: Fasten Reconciliation With Forgiveness

Amaechi and Odili henceforth should wear Unconditional Love and forgiveness as a garb, because of its essence to humanity, while we embrace the ability to forgive and eliminate judgment unconditionally...

The scourge of internal terrorism

Terrorism is no doubt a global security problem. The frightening phenomenon manifests itself in forms of suicide bombings, arson, kidnapping, murder, false imprisonment, and the like, all of which deny peoples of their rights to life and personal liberty...

On NASS of greed and conspiratorial leadership

In line with Mrs. Farida Waziri, EFCC’s Executive Chairman’s recent submission at a forum for the newly inaugurated legislators, leaders should be made to publish what they earn from the tax payers’ money...

Nigeria’s choices: right or wrong?

The last national assembly failed to impact positively on the lives of ordinary Nigerians with no single bill passed for the purpose of lifting the people out of poverty. This has been the case since the country returned to democracy since 1999...

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FAO Abiola Family

As we mark yet another June 12, there are some simple but important considerations that we, the people of Nigeria within and beyond the borders of the country need to continue to seriously make. Ordinarily, considerations and discussions about a Nigerian June 12 should be general and amongst citizens and scholars on civics and sovereignty of nations...

Rejoinder To Mr. Femi Olawole

Your comments on my article, "Patriotism, Dead or Alive," came to my attention only yesterday. Installing me in a group, you accuse me of "a chronic pessimism as to become pathetically blind to the emerging new Nigeria," and of not bothering to "proffer alternative leadership or management strategies..."

The Green Passport Reality TV Show

Every Nigerian is a critic.  We love to criticize others for every problem in the world.  We especially love to criticize leadership in every stratum...

Anambra State – A Reversed Renaissance?

So, what type of political intrigue does Anambra State define? Certainly not one that promotes democracy; its state governor is right in the warning that the political upheaval may subsume the current democratic dispensation...

Buharism: A Doctrine That Will Change The Way We live in Nigeria 

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes...

Anambra Governorship Election: Incumbency, Credibility And Past Record As Deciding Factors

Today, governorship candidates appear to be chosen based on three major yardsticks: incumbency, credibility and past records. These three yardsticks can easily be spotted among the three major political parties...

The Niger Delta Doesn’t Need War But Sincerity

The Niger Delta is in ferment and with it the Nigerian state and the entire world oil industry. For now, the hottest issue in international oil politics is how to deal with the cyclical Niger Delta problem...

Gov. Oshiomhole’s Woman, go and die and Narrow-minded Religionists

The religions in the country do not make some people to see things beyond their already programmed minds or, as a friend would put it, Zapped minds...

The Core North and the Rest of Us

If  most of us want  Nigeria to be one, then there is a need for the people of the Middle Belt to be ready to take a strong, firm, and  ideological paradigm shift in their cosy relationship with the core North...

CBN First Quarter Report: A Roadmap for Economic Recovery

The recently published first-quarter report from the Central Bank...