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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...

Jega, Address this Charge of Fake Polling Units

Jega must do everything to free the system of the negative influence of unscrupulous characters that would not mind playing with the interests and all the expectations placed on the coming election...

Ogboru, Uduaghan’s Poor Rejoinder and this Writer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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Shades of Racism

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Funke Adedoyin – An Odious Impertinence?

The princess should have done a bit of background checks on the senators that humiliated her publicly. If she could not anticipate her woes, maybe she is not fit for a ministerial position…

Black Women Arise: The Fairy Tale of Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle’s bloodline serves as the confluence of many...

Nigerian Youths and their Golden Aspiration to Leadership

This article opens up with a rejoinder to Yahaya...

Ogbonna Ike: Another Young Turk Goes Down!

Maybe being a young person, I feel that one should not be slowed down by the fear of death. However, the death of two very close young people is beginning to make me think that maybe after all the good die young...

A Wall Street crash will affect Nigeria – Dele Ashiru

"Because Nigeria is a large market, the US stands to gain a lot from production activities tailored towards Nigeria, whereas Nigeria does not have the same opportunity to trade massively in the American market..." - Dele Ashiru

Nigerian teachers for South African schools?

It is incomprehensible how Nigerian policy makers contemplate and implement evidently wrong-headed initiatives and decisions that leave not a few of us wondering and stupefied...

Northernization

For too long now there has existed an unholy nexus between Nigerian politicians and their bureaucrats leading to favouritism, cronyism, vendetta and a “revolving door bureaucracy” syndrome...