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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...

The Babangida File (2)

It is alleged that two of the presidential candidates within the fold of the PDP have collected money from one of the leaders of the Maghreb Arab nations. The leader of the Arab nation is a tent-dwelling Bedouin with unorthodox style of governance and one who possesses fatalistic interest in Nigeria and the promotion of Islamic fundamentalism in the North...

My Silly Wet 2011 Dream

I had a silly dream last night; yeah, that kind of dream. I had a dream which in the naturally befuddling Nigerian environment is nothing short of a dream...

State of The Nation: A Continuous Assessment

Okay, let me make it clearer. Every human being is like a drug addict; no matter how hard he tries...

A-Z of Delta State Sorry Story!

Ibori was an avowed disciple of Abacha. He was one of the Abacha boys in that dark age of our national life. That has been said already. But we make haste to say here: like Abacha, like Ibori!

A-Z of Delta State Sorry Story!

Ibori was an avowed disciple of Abacha. He was one of the Abacha boys in that dark age of our national life. That has been said already. But we make haste to say here: like Abacha, like Ibori!

Channels TV: Another Triumph of Journalism

Governance in Nigeria may not represent an enthralling story, but not journalism. Acts of the Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary at all levels may be nauseating, not so with the fourth estate of the realm. There are major bus-stops in Nigeria journalism that attract huge nods...

Nigerians: Please Stop Recycling

The candidates who have so far declared their intention to contest the presidency in next year’s presidential election include two retired Generals, who ruled the country for nearly a decade between them, and who first entered Nigerian government in 1975.  Although there is a case for experience, there has to be a sensible limit somewhere...

Speaking Truth to Power: The Asiwaju of Progress or Manipulation

With the reversals by the courts of some gubernatorial electoral ‘victories’ of the PDP in the South West the focus in the media and the internet chatter fora has now shifted to the person of the ‘Asiwaju’, ’Bola Tinubu of Lagos.  To some the man awaits canonisation as a saint and to others he attracts vilification...

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The Management of Nigeria’s $1b Sovereign Wealth Fund

For Nigeria to successfully manage her sovereign-wealth fund, transparency and probity must be underpinning tools that must be present. Transparency is doable and possible when responsible and patriotic Nigerians are called to duty to serve their fatherland...

Of Off-Cue Presidential Broadcasts

Many of the people who clamored for President Buhari...

The Immunity Shroud

In the age of the Internet and credit cards, persons who count hard currency in the millions have access to all forms of transfer. That is why cash transactions of thousands and millions in the modern economies are not only primitive but presumed by the advanced economies as an attempt to evade tracing...

The Balance of Our Stories

It is a great time to be a connoisseur of Nigerian literature. There are all these Nigerian writers doing some really exciting work and there are not enough hours in the day to consume all their wares...

The Great Nigerian Delusion

The Nigerian Project, whose 50th anniversary would be elaborately celebrated soon, never ceases to puzzle. Unfortunately, for so long, Nigerians have not been able to come off this jigsaw, of sorts...

Gani Fawehinmi: Between Impetuosity and Senility

It bears emphasizing that Gani is, in the eyes of many, a victim of both impetuosity and 'senility'. The degeneration of a hitherto great legal mind has struck us, his admirers right from college, as the final stage of a hero's dramatic undoing of his heroism...

Bishop Kukah and the Fractured Microcosm

Let me start this rather short Tribute by stating...

Speed Limits

It is very much in the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians that speeding is controlled on all roads. The whole idea will be to reduce to the lowest minimum, the rates of road accidents...

A Nigerian President from the Other Side of the War

It is 52 long years since the much-ballyhooed end...

Not On Their Watch!

Adegboyega Oyetola and Olugbenga Babatunji are two leaders in...