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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...

President Tinubu Discovers Ice In Macondo

Let the whole wide world join me in universal celebration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has just repeated the immortal feat of discovering...

Tinubu and his Special Advisers

Without doubt, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s greatest inner gift is the uncanny ability to deploy native intelligence. Some people rarely talk about it because...

Osinbajo Foot Soldiers: Rise of Hungry Authors and Pseudo-Intellectuals

I have found myself at the centre of an awful scenario, and recipient of unnecessary public interest from certain hungry authors and pseudo-intellectuals. My...

Battle for space: the Nigerian context

Birthdays come with their own adequate burdens of celebrations which the celebrants may not get out of, even after the celebrations may have ended....

Emefielization of the Buhari Administration

If we were under any circumstances to say that we did not expect the suspension of Mr Godwin Emefiele as Central Bank Governor, we...

Rubber Stamp 9th NASS: Should Lawan Bother?

Mr Chairman, members of the high table, impartial judges, accurate timekeepers, co-debaters, ladies and gentlemen. I'm standing perpendicularly before you here to outline a...

Of Tinubu, Legislative Aspirants And Compromised Watchdogs

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has today become the darling of all those in the leadership race of the 10th National Assembly, NASS. Aspiring legislative...

Good speech on “Democracy Day, 2023″ by President BAT: Not much has changed

"We can easily recall the sacrifice and martyrdom of Chief MKO Abiola, the custodian of the sacred mandate that was so cruelly annulled. He...

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