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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...

Nigeria: The Burden of a Lie

Until recently, I had retained residual hope in the prospect of the birth of a viable nation out of the space called Nigeria. I’m now – I must confess – filled with deep doubts...

Restoring hope at a time of a nation’s despair

When I read the Facebook posting by Ukeoma Ikechukwu, a corps member serving in Bauchi State, before his gruesome death in the hands of rioters who were protesting the outcome of the April 16 presidential election won by President Goodluck Jonathan, I became misty-eyed...

Wild Wild North: A festival of Incompetence and Mischief

Lest we all become guilty of what we accuse others of doing, two things need to be said very clearly about the ongoing crisis in the Northern part of Nigeria...

Politicians Without Conscience

While many Nigerians and the politicians talk about God so much, they behave anyhow, and do not care who may be watching them...

Delta Gubernatorial Election: Anioma’s Best Bet

Come April 26, 2011 Nigerians will be going to the polls to elect their governors. This is an opportunity to correct the past. And many states are set to do just that. Perhaps none is as poised to put behind it an inglorious past like Delta...

Understand Help People

Those we are under are hardly being truthful and practice in reality the language of the visionary and the idealist they preach to us; their behaviours and ulterior motives toward us are not ideal...

Fashola Remains The Best Man for the Job!

Much has been said of Fashola's ground breaking achievements on such gigantic spheres as infrastructural renewal, urban transportation, health, education, security, environment, justice system, job creation, etc. but I think he excels equally in giving the much needed attention to the little things that matter...

Politicking Against the Tide: The 2011 Presidential Polls In Nigeria!

Today, there is widespread belief that the vote will be difficult to manipulate, irrespective of the major parties in the areas where incumbency is enjoyed...

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Nigerian Universities Strike: To Redress Or Regret Past Neglect?

If Nigerian society is truly egalitarian, university education should be a part of the larger effort for the society to be inclusive...

Good speech on “Democracy Day, 2023″ by President BAT: Not much has changed

"We can easily recall the sacrifice and martyrdom of...

Oh, At Last We Are Here!

Has anyone located any of Prof Iwu's polling centres? Has anyone seen where he has displayed the voters' registers for the elections that are just a couple of days away? Please, if you have, just give me a call and I would go and see the wonder with my own eyes.  

Atiku: The Limit of ‘Bolekaja’ language!

Atiku's combative language deployed so assiduously mirrors the unbroken command and control mentality of the North toward uppity Southerners looking for power - power which the North has long hijacked as their birthright!

A Man Of Steel & Character

The only super power like Jesus was, in the Holy Trinity concept, had neither silver or gold nor military power. It had only two things, namely moral suasion and world consensus based on representation and participation...

TBJ: A Prophet and his Sex Slaves

The Nigerian Pentecostal movement is presently embattled. Its umbrella regulator, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, an impotent outfit, cannot pretend to be unaware of the dark dealings of the human mirage of Ikotun Egbe. Nigerian pastors, ministers, reverends and priests are becoming spiritual aggressors who prey on the weak, the poor and the gullible…

CKC Onitsha Won World Cup For Nigeria In 1977

I had a pleasant phone call from my dear...

Dasukigate or Dasukibonanza

A name that has always been associated with controversy...

We Need To Re-Strategize

Image matters in everything, our appearance matters. Foreigners will make up their mind on Nigeria through those representing us outside our shore. We must make do with our first eleven...

Managerial Problem Of The UN

Washington has allowed issues irrelevant to American commitment to the UN to intrude. The US must pay its debts just like any other nation. Congress must immediately stop hectoring the UN...