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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...

Will A Good Man in the Tinubu Epoch Please Stand Up?

There are very strong indicators that almost 90% of the members of the Tinubu administration came to steal. Or perhaps not. But strong evidence...

2024: Let’s pray for Nigeria!

Since Nigeria is a star gold medal winner in prayers and celebrated spirituality, I think this intervention should be a special focus on the...

Daunting state of education in Northern Nigeria

By Isah Aliyu Chiroma “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X. We live...

Brutal post-election litigation: eyes on the judiciary

By Isah Aliyu Chiroma “It is a common experience in Nigeria that those who lose elections invariably credit their defeat to the alleged foul activities...

Koboless Christmas

Most Nigerians are koboless – I mean, they have no kobo coins in their pockets, let alone naira notes, and they must perforce celebrate...

Why Is Oshiomhole So Obsessed With Fayemi?

Former Edo State Governor who graduated to become the chairman of the country’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), ex-Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, always...

Osun APC and some hard home truths – (2)

Read Part 1 As of July 16, 2022, Iyiola Omisore, a Prince of Ife and a celebrated political strategist and master of the game, was...

Buhari And Fashola’s Legacy Of Killer Roads

This fateful Friday of 28th July 2023, a heavy blanket of sorrow enveloped the entire population of Eket Council in Akwa Ibom State. A...

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EFCC vs. Kalu: Looking Beyond Slander, but Truth…

The EFCC made Kalu a culprit whereas no court has said so, which is against the Nigerian judicial notion which says that a suspect remains innocent till convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction...

Speaking Truth to Power: The Man of God and Mass Hysteria

"I am sure by now you have received a text message saying that Pastor E A Adeboye said you should pray from 1am to 3am so that someone close to you wont die or something like that...Well this is to let you know this text message is NOT FROM PASTOR E A ADEBOYE..."

PDP And Its Many Self-Indicting ‘Looters Lists’

Since Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, released what he...

Truth about African Relationships: Beyond the Rhetoric

Nigerian women in Diaspora love Nigerian men. I can attest to this. They are fiercely protective of us, and they take good care of us too. Woe betides any African man that will deny this...

2007 Presidential Election: A Review of Top Candidates

Nigeria is fast becoming a circular system where the same sets of names are waived around as the best candidates to fill the top positions...

Wike: Walking Into the Landmines

I find it difficult to comprehend the fuss surrounding...

Nobody Asked Me, But…

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The Nigeria of Our Dream

At the moment, Nigeria is a stout source of credit to many countries including the US, UK, South Africa and Australia. What is more, the Nigerian Naira has attained a world currency status seconded by the Chinese yuan and the US dollar...

Okotie's Failed Marriage In A Failed Nation!

The marriage institution is generally on the decline in many parts of the world. With the advent of the modern world and the modern man loving just only a woman is becoming more and more challenging in a new world of possibilities in which the internet has revolutionalised the way we relate with the opposite sex...