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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...

Insecurity: Time to heed Zulum’s warning

At a programme in honour of the reconstituted North-East Development Commission (NEDC) recently, Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, warned that Nigeria risked being...

Still on the Wike-Fubara feud

If we go back to the history of Nigeria, the truth is: dear fatherland has learnt nothing. In the days of Obafemi Awolowo and...

Saturday’s Governorship Elections In Nigeria And The Credibility Of The Electoral Commission

As the November 11, 2023, governorship elections in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states draw close, widespread and justifiable concerns continue to mount about the...

Nigeria, Revenue Poverty and Taxation Atrophy

When our forefathers came up with the wise saying that ‘the earnest wish of potters is for earth to be clay’, it was not...

‘Focus on Policies aimed at making life Better for Nigerians’ – Bishop Tells Tinubu

Nigeria's president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been advised to focus on policies and programmes that will help put food on the tables of the...

The passable view of roads in Southwest Nigeria

From time immemorial, the masses have relied on constituted governments to implement road projects for the socio-political economy of the society. Whichever government got...

Who Can Dance Like Gov Ademola Adeleke?

There are only four elements you look for in a song. Intellectuals identify them as imagery, diction, sound and the flow or rhythm of...

Mohbad: When The Highly-Connected Can Kill And Go

Two highly-connected characters have their hands soiled in circumstances climaxing in the tragic death of 27-year-old Afrobeat Rapper and Musician, Mohbad, on September 12. Sam...

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From People To Programs And Then Ideas

Nations are like children. They are born and they do die; they have a life cycle. Great empires have been built and greater ones have fallen...

CNN Attacks On Nigerians In Houston

Why did CNN focus on a few Nigerians in Houston Despite the Enron Catastrophe in Houston? How did CNN manage to neglect the forest of the Enron debacle, while CNN was in hot pursuit of a few crumbs of trees by way of a few Nigerian immigrants involved in frauds?

$500million Bond: Corrupt Move To Bankrupt Nigeria!

President Umaru Yar’Adua yesterday wrote the Senate for approval to raise 500 million US Dollars in the international capital market. The move underscores earlier prediction that the Federal Government is in for a long borrowing spree...

Corruption: Time For General Amnesty?

Nigeria needs to re-think the fight against corruption, and a general amnesty programme could offer the needed break with the unproductive, selective justice and vendetta-driven strategies of the past...

UN Job: Did Obasanjo Block Okonjo-Iweala?

It will be disastrous if the president saw Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's UN job bid as payback time, an opportunity to extract his vengeful pound of flesh as it is being insinuated in diplomatic circles...

Is Dianne Abbott, MP, A Friend Of Nigeria?

Dianne Abbot has shown Nigerians and by implication her many constituents her true face. Her comments are bound are likely to ignite further the flames of inter-ethnic wrangling between Nigerians and Jamaicans in the UK...

The Subsidy Crises: A Way Forward (The Nigerian Front)

We have taken stock of the grave national crises we face and we of The Nigerian Front, after a process of consultation and reflection, have come up with a roadmap to provide some solutions for the nation...

Education in Nigeria: Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai and the “Education Roadmap”

Can Minister Rufai’s four areas of reform be the catalyst to help revamp and redirect education in Nigeria? Can Minister Rufai overcome the problem of policy implementation?

What Do Africans Owe Africa?

It is impossible to tell, with any degree of certainty, how Africa would have turned out without slavery and colonialism. All we can do is guess, make conjectures...

Happy Birthday President Buhari

Dear Mr President, As you add and commence a new...