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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,...

The Nigerian Front: A Government of All Talents

Since the call from ‘The Nigerian Front’ to the organs of government and to Nigerian electorate, the Presidency has moved to reduce the excessive monetary allowances, which the members of the National Assembly voted for themselves...

The Igbo in the GEJ Dispensation

There are times when an angry but wise man realizes that he is responsible, either by omission or commission, for the pains being inflicted on him by his adversary...

What President-Elect Goodluck Jonathan Needs

The Aboki guy that sells suya in my neighborhood had a better legal understanding than the lawmakers with the world’s highest wages...

Princewill’s Choice in Jonathan: Retrospection on Zoning before 2011 Elections

Apart from being a crowned prince of the Amachree dynasty in the Kalabari Kingdom of Rivers State and also the 'new face of Rivers politics', as many people describe him as, Prince Tonye Princewill describes himself as a 'bridge builder'...

David-West: From Virology To Writing

From what David-West has been writing, it is no news that it didn’t take him sixty years to discover that he had a talent for writing and could not give it up...

Is Governor Peter Obi's APGA losing grip of Anambra State?

APGA's poor showing on the recent Nigerian elections may be due lack of strategic planning and absence of Dim Ikemba Ojukwu...

Two Governors and Many Missing Opportunities

In the absence of clear and complete explanation and indeed justification of any government action, people are left with no alternative but to speculate. Consequently, a lot of possible reasons and opinions are going around regarding the actions of the Governors...

Ibadan: Romancing the one-term jinx

Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, the outgoing Governor of Oyo State is a disturbed man. His valorous stand off to the imperial conceit of Ibadan social, intellectual and traditional elite is truly Ogbomoshonian in its breathtaking performance...

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Parresia Books: Reason To Believe In Nigeria’s Literary Future

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Gaza: As Israel Hammers Hamas

Surrounded, border-wise, by hostile neighbouring countries whose extremist wings ceaselessly denounce 'Zionism' Israel is proudly exercising her natural rights of existence...

Ivory Coast: Before Putting our Boys in Harm's Way

The quickness to which the UN took sides in the Ivorian elections was unprecedented and highly suspicious. The UN has to exercise her independence and must not make pundits see her as to be protecting the geo-political and economic interest of a leader of an influential nation...

Education in Nigeria under Dr. Sayyadi Abba Ruma: Challenges and Possibilities

The federal government has played a limited role in education. The Constitution gave the state governments the authority and power to fund education and thus the primary responsibility of educating its citizenry...

Did A 'Jezebel' Murder Commissioner Enoma?

Pray, why did the Commissioner prefer disguising himself if the business he had there was of no immoral import? Why did he instruct the hotel personel not to distract him in any manner? Or did he know by some satanic premonition that he was keeping a date with death?

Dying For Nothing in Nigeria

During the governorship and states’ houses of assembly elections...

Do Bad Things Really Happen to Bad People?

I've always liked this Somerset Maugham quote: "I do...

Nigeria May Become Somalia, Ivory Coast, Then Iraq

Some Nigerians do not want anarchy and disintegration of Nigeria, but on the contrary, some other Nigerians believe that the only end to their suffering and bondage is anarchy and disintegration...

Before Buhari is sent back to Daura in 2019

When I saw the nauseating and uglified APC 2019...

Oyebamiji: In Our Best Interest?

By Olanrewaju Iyunade ​In developing democracies, public officials constantly face...