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Hello! Be Wise As The Campaigns Begin

Promise Adiele -
Barring any divine intervention, and never ruling out the unpredictability of the cosmic regime, the 2027 general elections in Nigeria will be held. The...
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Nigeria Is Dying In Bondage

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu -
The calls came to me in quick succession - from the United States and some cities in Nigeria - concerning the health and accommodation...
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Osun Election: Victory For The People

Promise Adiele -
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...
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Ogboru, Uduaghan’s Poor Rejoinder and this Writer

Eferovo Igho -
It won’t be long before these Ibori-Uduaghan boys know the cost of sycophancy and what it means to create the Augean stable they have created in Delta while living in sickening opulence. I write that Delta may be free...

Made in Lagos for Nigeria

Anthony A. Kila -
In 2011, all Nigerians of goodwill with honest and upright intentions, regardless of their political affiliations or the candidate they support should seek the Lagos model and clamour for public debates with incumbents fully involved...

Jonathan: Thank you Sultan, thank you Shagari

Eferovo Igho -
The more Atiku and ACF try to scuttle Jonathan’s party mandate, the more the man has overwhelming national support and approvals from personages that matter. And now that the Sultan has spoken, and Shehu Shagari has spoken, ACF and Atiku may want to file in...

Nigerian society and Our Moral Dilemma

Paul Ogwu Okwuchukwu -
We face a serious moral dilemma that pervades all sectors of our national life. It appears that our sense of wrong and right has blurred to the extent that we cannot differentiate between the two...

How Not to Loot a Rural State

Michael Oluwagbemi II -
It is that time of the year again when Nigerian politicians make bogus promises which they intend not to keep once elected into office. Lies, double speak and vain talk like “Agent of Change”, “Hope of the common man” among others is being thrown around like they are going out of fashion...

Ogun PDP: An atomistic party at war with itself

Max Amuchie -
In the last few weeks, the struggle over those who will carry the flag of the People’s Democratic Party in Ogun State for various elective positions in the forthcoming elections has made headlines and the issue appears unresolved three weeks to the beginning of the elections...

We are Bode George

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
I have read some of the outrage some of us have expressed concerning the lavish and tumultuous reception that heralded Bode George’s release from prison. While some can be excused for the honest expression of their outrage, others are just being good old hypocrites. You want to know why?

Chuma Nzeribe, Peter Obi, and Political Treachery

Okey Ndibe -
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra is one of the luckiest politicians in Nigeria’s history. He’s in danger of turning himself into one of the most historically blind as well...
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