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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...

Do not pity President Tinubu

“We have corruption, insecurity, and many problems confronting us … but don’t pity me. I asked for the job. I campaigned for it. No...

How long can Nigeria go under Tinubu?

I have always been fascinated by a phrase in the marital vows of Christians during wedding rituals: “till death do us part”! My candid...

Lest We Tar the CBN With Emefiele’s Brush

Recent developments in the country’s economic sector have become causes for concern to all patriots. That is, if that word still has a meaning...

The Eternal Echoes of June 12: Nigeria’s Unfinished Symphony

"We cannot continue to live with the ghosts of our past. We must move forward, but move forward together." - Nelson Mandela Tomorrow, June 12,...

Cult Prohibition Law: A Lifeline to End Cult Wars in Edo

By Eben Enasco In December 2018, the Edo State Government took a bold step to address the menace of secret cults by passing a bill...

Ekiti, Osun: Getting the battle lines drawn

Barring unforeseen circumstances, the 2026 Ekiti and Osun governorship elections are less than 27 and 28 months respectively. In Osun State, it is believed...

“Great Nation” Should Be Nigeria’s National Anthem

Anybody interested in a prosodic analysis of a poem, a piece of music or an anthem will need to focus on only four elements....

2027: On the Grave of Nigerians?

By Promise Adiele It is needless to repeat or chronicle Nigeria’s multi-layered, hydra-headed woes ranging from a moribund economy, evident social dislocations, and unrecognisable political...

Is Bola Tinubu Really a Master Strategist?

In the days and weeks before Bola Tinubu became president, he had many sobriquets. The sobriquets depended on the side of the aisle that...

Kano Emirate and the irony of innocence

There is a ticking time bomb in Kano and President Bola Tinubu has to move in quickly in a statesmanlike way to diffuse it....

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Lawless vs. the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Since 1960, our Federal Republic has been injured very often by criminal conducts. Lawlessness has been rife, lawlessness has been on the rise and the serpents of illusion have crawled around the nation...

Yar’Adua: See What the Cabal Has Done!

The death of any President, a country’s number one citizen is a watershed in the life of any nation. This rare but sometimes inevitable occurrence in the life of a nation often evokes a deep sense of loss and a prolonged period national mourning...

A nation at war with itself – the dawn of the second Nigerian Civil War

To say the least, the submissive and tepid reaction of the Nigerian President to the latest round of violence unleashed on the citizenry by Boko Haram was irksome and left a sour taste in the mouth...

Karl Marx Thesis On Religion

Karl Marx hated with ceaseless passion capitalist created millionaires and billionaires anywhere in the world. In fact, if capitalism was a human being, Karl Marx was ready, during his times on mother earth to seize it, squeeze its head and have it smashed against a wall...

Igbos In Lagos State: My Experience

Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation...

Of Election Tribunal and Electoral Reform

The Nigerian democratic experiment is in its eleventh year and appears to be surviving in spite of its inadequacies. One may be tempted to call this "quantitative assessment". I have observed in some of my previous articles how dangerously our brand of democracy is being handled...

The Game Of The Masters

Mischief makers claim that IBB and OBJ may still be seeking to cash in or make good on bets which they may have made years ago over a game of draught, on who will be the longest serving Head of State in Nigeria - in or out of uniform...

Tonye Princewill: Using Serene Capital to Reduce Poverty

There are billionaires in Nigeria who do not know what to do with money again. They only continue to stockpile more money in different hard currencies as if they are preparing for a competition...

The Canards of Continuity and Change

In less than two weeks, Nigerians will unveil a...

Toward an Evaluation of the Educational and Sports Sectors in Nigeria

For the past two months, since returning from Nigeria in July after living in America for 30 years, I have been thinking and reflecting on my observations of how the educational and sports sectors work...