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Government Against The People

Nigeria is in grave danger more than ever. There is no running away from the dire fact that things are not working properly in the...

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...

Why Akunyili’s God Is Not God

It is bound to happen. Nigerians are experts in the art of blasphemy. At any given time, their behaviour and language are profane and sacrilegious...

The Supreme Court of Nigeria vs the Corruption War

For lawyers, the Supreme Court of Nigeria is what St. Peter's Basilica is to devout Catholics! The Supreme Court is to lawyers what Mecca is to devout Muslims!

The Supreme Court of Nigeria vs the Corruption War

For lawyers, the Supreme Court of Nigeria is what St. Peter's Basilica is to devout Catholics! The Supreme Court is to lawyers what Mecca is to devout Muslims!

I Believe Atiku!

A lot of us hardly took Atiku seriously even when he apologized to the nation for assisting President Obasanjo put us through some very harrowing reformatory experiences...

On Your Marks, Get Set…

The fight has not started. When it does, we will all be aware. It will strike like thunder and bring down its actors. We will all be by the sides and watch and cheer…

Moving Quickly On

Before we move on, we need to deal with a small matter of the newspaper report that the National Assembly is contemplating steps to nullify the elections...

Congratulations!

Those who were unsuccessful at the just concluded elections should embrace the rule of law, due process and democracy. The burden is on them...

The Remains of the Day

I did not vote in the last Nigerian elections. I couldn't have from my abode in Europe where we tried to mobilise the Nigerian diaspora for the Pat Utomi for president project. Though the results did not go the way we had hoped, I am still a happy man knowing that we tried our best to effect change in our country...

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Gani Fawehinmi's Crass Criticism

Barrister Fawehinmi ignored all precepts of decency as he engaged in his garrulous commentary at a time Nigeria mourned the death of 117 passengers and crew of the ill-fated Bellview Airlines flight 210. Gani was indecorous on this occasion...

In Defense of Pastors Ibiyeomi and Enenche Part 2

Pastors David Ibiyeomie, and Paul Enenche two of those...

Jonathan’s Pledge to the N20 Billion Red Cross Appeal Fund

If we take the disaster in Haiti that occurred early this year as a natural disaster, what are we going to take the incessant killings of human beings and the destruction of their hard earned property in Jos...

Can we share in their glories?

Take a Nigerian and you have a survivor, take two Nigerians and you get two competing survivors, take three Nigerians and you get a series of contradictions. That in part is the story of Nigeria in the just concluded successful London Olympics...

Prof. Chukwuma Soludo: Re-education and the making of a governor

Soludo's nearly perfect record during his tenure may be scratched by the new revelation and investigation by the new CBN chieftain, Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, that exposed the corruption in the banking system...

Town Crier in the city of the deaf – Power must change hands!

Just when I was thinking of expressing comradeship with the courageous men and women in Lagos State who were planning to continue the street protests that greeted the removal of petroleum subsidy in Nigeria, I was abruptly brought to a great sadness by the scale of human and material destruction that characterized Boko Haram attacks on the ancient city of Kano...

Of Winston Spencer Churchill and Femi Fani-Kayode

There are interesting developments between the United Kingdom and...

How President Muhammadu Buhari can Redeem his Battered Image

President Muhammdu Buhari’s popularity rating must be currently at...

‘Beauty for Ashes’ Rocks the Stage At UNN 54th Convocation Ceremony

A new experience in theatre is on stage at...

In Support of Babangida…

Was Dele Giwa killed at the behest of Babangida? No one has a definite answer. There were dozens of Nigerians who disappeared, and are unaccounted for, during his watch. So, let’s ask him - through the police, the attorney general and the courts...