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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...

Can Tinubu Deliver Nigeria?

Many Nigerians pray fervently that the Buhari prediction – that Nigerians will miss him greatly after he leaves office – will not come to...

Fuel subsidy: what’s really going on?

I am an angry Nigerian and those who know me must know why I have to be! As the pioneer Administrative Secretary of the...

Obafemi Awolowo and Nigeria’s latter-day progressives

There’s an awe of a legend; and this awe is fed or fuelled by the happenings in the life of that legend. When Obafemi...

Fuel Subsidy Removal Will Be Good If Tinubu-Shettima Buy Their Fuel

One of the very first things Obama did when he became president of the United States was walk into the White House Kitchen. He...

Still on Fayemi and Ekiti politics

On July 29, 1966, Adekunle Fajuyi, a Lieutenant Colonel, and Military Governor of Western Nigeria, staked his life, when some revenge-seeking counter-coupists came for...

Fight the Politicians Not Emdee Tiamiyu

In the past week, discourse in the public space lingered around three issues. The first is the coming inauguration of Bola Tinubu as president...

Who’s Really On Trial At The Presidential Election Tribunal?

Permit this controversial entry. For you see, I'm one of those who ardently believe that all the democratic regimes we have had in this...

Osun: au revoir, IleriOluwa; et tu, TOP?

There is an unraveling mystery about the Nigerian press. The custodian of this value is clearly misunderstood and misused in opportunities. But it is...

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Ijaws and Ijawnation: What are Our Goals and Destiny?

Where do the Ijaws belong? Where do we belong? What is our destiny? Why do we remain part of a republic that treats us like a broken piece of glass? What makes us carry the cross our neighbors have forced us to bear? Why do we, with our eyes closed, turn the other cheek for unnecessary slaps and abuse? Why are we the way we are? Why?

Polygamy: A Cancerous Issue in Nigeria

One of the concerns I had with MKO presumably winning the presidency that was annulled by IBB in 1993, was the way Nigeria would have been perceived around the world when a highly polygamous man leads a country of such potential greatness...

Malaria-infested Abia Government

It is observable that somebody in Abia State Government House, Umuahia, is taking a prescription for leprosy in the place of malaria...

River's Brand Image And The Competitive Struggle

It is the idea of joining unionism with politics that has swelled the nation’s security, unity and democratic lapses...

Health care financing in Nigeria

Financing health systems is a major challenge in both developed and developing countries, but Nigeria has yet to show the ability to face this challenge so that the health system can benefit all the citizens of the country...

Prosperity, Eternity (10 ): Brotherly Love, Spirit’s Unction and Life for Evermore!

We are individually called unto Holiness. That is our individual identity that we must keep and grow in. Its taproot must be firm in the Cross of Calvary where we are saved and where all graces flow to keep us through this dark world of sin...

Free at last? Nigerian Artifacts may finally return home

Debunking persistent myths and showcasing that Africans had developed...

Ahmadu Alli: A Man Of National Honor Or Horror?

It is a height of crassitude for organizers of the National award in Nigeria to vacuously consider bestowing a National Honor on this horrific man known as Ahmadu Alli whilst men and women who actively and sedulously worked towards the emancipation and liberation of our Country are superciliously discounted...

Edwin Clark versus Nigeria

Part of the significant changes that came with the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in Nigerian national discourse are the metamorphosis of and the new role assumed by Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clarke...

Revamping The Nigerian Leadership: Applying What We Know

A society that finds itself losing grip or veering off the course of basic leadership responsibility has a superior responsibility to redirect its course which in many cases would mean a change of the status quo...