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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,...

Rivers: The ‘Criers’ ‘Laughers’ of NASS Elections

Many of us had thought that the violent 2003 and 2007 elections would buildup to the 2011 elections, but the latter was rather peaceful, although not in the general sense of peace...

Nigeria’s 2011 Presidential Poll: What If The Vote Goes Otherwise?

Nigeria has made great strides since it gained independence from the British in 1960. Civil-War torn and ravaged by inter-ethnic prejudice, it has been able to transform itself into a state with democratic elections...

Hon Pat Obahiagbon – Farewell to the Fed House of Reps

The Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon, one of the nation’s most colourful and cerebral legislators in the Federal House of Representatives will not be returning to it as a member when it reconvenes in May...

Delta’s Stranger-than-Fiction Story of Two Omo-Ageges

Ovie Omo-Agege has always been a veritable pawn in the hands of Ibori and subsequently received choice appointments under the latter...

Amaechi, David-West and I

Today, what battles and baffles me is the unflinching love Professor Tam David-West has shown me for just that article on Amaechi, even though I have written many articles buttressing reasons Amaechi should be supported...

Nigeria’s Elections: The Past And The Present Expectation!

We praise Prof Attahiru Jega and his INEC team for the measures that have been put in place, such that brought about the credibility of the parliamentary election held last Saturday; 9th April, 2011...

My head swells, that is my country

Having sojourned in Europe for almost 10 years, I now have hopes that I may probably have a country to which I can return. It is glaring that my countrymen have decided to take their destinies in their own hands...

Before The Nightfall

We as a people have had it long and tough. A decision must be made now:  Decision to take our country back from the hands of its slaughterers; fight a good fight; use our vote as our weapon and make good use of it; vote out the useless and vote in the useful...

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An open Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan

I am writing on behalf of the deprived, dehumanized, hapless and traumatized poor people of Nigeria to express to you their disgruntled impressions about your government...

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The AJC, NIDO and NPF events were wonderful experiences in the pursuit of the common good of Nigeria...

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Oyebamiji: The Man, The Politics And The Aspiration

By Oluseyi Olonade Every political epoch produces individuals whose entry...

Cloning and the Rest of Us

I wonder why these scientists and researchers have not been able to find out how the stem cells can help cure millions of Africans infected with the HIV/AIDS...

Nigeria – Disintegration Secession: Cop Out, Not a Solution

Is Nigeria worth saving? Why is Nigeria worth saving? How do we save Nigeria? Can this about to be forty-eight years old be redeemed from itself?

Now, Will President Yar’Adua Be Kind?

Quitting now would be more redemptive of Yar’Adua’s person than being remembered later as the groping undertaker of a richly endowed but seriously ill nation?

Ekiti 2026: Continuity, Reality and Comfort Zone

June 20, 2026, is the date appointed by the...

Picking Your Self Up Off The Floor Starts With 0

Twice a week for three freaking hours, I had to sit in a room and look into the faces of people just like me - except they were not me.  I had to look at my failures dead in the eye and face them.  If I had a gun, I would have gladly put a bullet in my head...