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Oyebanji: The countdown starts!

At exactly 1:34 pm on Friday, October 16, 2026, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO) took the Oath of Allegiance as Governor of Ekiti State for...

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...

Developing Nigeria’s Economy: The New Challenges Of Industry Policy-Making

Through industrialization, developing nations aspire to achieve higher economic growth, and to eventually attain developed nation status. Yet, it remains doubtful whether the approach of industrial policy-making in developing countries has indeed been successful in transforming their economies...

Developing Nigeria’s Economy: The New Challenges Of Industry Policy-Making

Through industrialization, developing nations aspire to achieve higher economic growth, and to eventually attain developed nation status. Yet, it remains doubtful whether the approach of industrial policy-making in developing countries has indeed been successful in transforming their economies...

Igbos of Delta State and Crisis of Identity (Part 1)

It is unfortunate that our crisis of identity extends to our own Igbo brothers and sisters across the Niger who are supposed to know better. Unfortunately, they regard themselves, as “the proper Igbos” while the Delta Igbos or Ika Igbos or Western Igbos are regarded derogatorily as “Hausa-Igbos”. ..

Call For Interim Government: Undemocratic Games?

If a doomsday prophet defines politics as a mean-spirited enterprise motivated by greed, it can be accepted and used to describe a new political paradigm as seen through the eyes of opposition parties in Nigeria...

Conversation with Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State

We were the first government in Nigeria to establish a functional due process unit. We are very clean; my hands are clean. I am not corrupt. My government is very transparent. Those who say I am a thief are not being 100% correct...

Infrastructure Concession in Nigeria as Panacea

With the support of the World Bank and other financial institutions, many African governments are adopting the concession option for the development of their basic infrastructure...

How PDP Governors are Under-Developing the South-West

The giant strides in economic, education, industrial and infrastructural development of the South West witnessed during the First Republic was unprecedented. These gains are being threatened under the present set of Governors!

Tax Reform and Illegal Commission Agent: Oyigbo Example

The State of Rivers is guilty of illegal taxation of its residence, who, with a fair and objective policy on traffic speed enforcement, would not be considered criminals and could not be reasonably or ethically expected to pay what can only be described as a tax...

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The success of the 2012 London Olympics is ineluctably linked with good organisation and the application of human intelligence at the highest level. There is evidence that there is no end to the ingenuity of men and women...

Buhari’s Major War

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The Voice of Mutallab, the Hands of the Dead

It must be said that the complicity and guilt of the northern establishment finds comfort in the attitude of the Nigerian media and intelligentsia. The imperative of naming names and ascribing responsibility for these things to specific people and fragments of Nigerian society – where evidence abounds – has always given way to clever demission and political correctness...

Mike Okonkwo Essay Competition: A Vision Without Borders

I never knew how similar my experience was to other winners of the Mike Okonkwo Essay Competition for Secondary Schools until I had the opportunity of meeting some past winners for the first time recently in Lagos...

Rivers The Admirable Security Achievements

Governor Chibuike Amaechi's speedy response through a television broadcast quelling the minds of the residents on the explosion which nearly sent the residents packing does not only require commendation, but has taught the residents that the governor was not ruling the state from abroad...

Ilesa Varsity and PDP’s Diversionary Therapy

At last, Osun State College of Education, Ilesa (COEILESA),...

Corruption: Nobody Should Be Deceived

Despite some progress by the government of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo in fighting corruption and improving the economy, Nigerians are deeply disappointed with how the country has turned out...

Aguma’s Call for the Closure of APC State Party Secretariat: A huge surprise – Nwuke

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The Return of Aladin

Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima interviewed Aladin, Nigerian musician based in Austria. Aladin spoke on the reason for his migration, the reception in Austria, his home coming to Nigeria in August, his Bulgarian wife and three children and the release of his new cd…