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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...

The Calamity Of An Endangered Profession…

There is no way anyone can tell me that the greatest nations of the world as at today and yesterday are in any way better endowed or strategically positioned than our dear native land, Nigeria...

A Feud of Three Bulls: A Dissenting Opinion

In his current treatise Dr. Okey Ndibe writes like a man who does not understand Nigerian history and African politics. Furthermore, he writes like a man who has never studied Obasanjo...

Baseless Optimism Will not Change Nigeria

Time is running out on the majority of genuinely concerned Nigerians to organise themselves and trade ideas on the way forward...

How to Help EFCC Succeed

Benue State has clearly demonstrated why Nigeria needs the EFCC as an external Federal agency to investigate cases of graft, cronyism, conversion and outright looting of public resources...

How to Help EFCC Succeed (2)

Benue State has clearly demonstrated why Nigeria needs the EFCC as an external Federal agency to investigate cases of graft, cronyism, conversion and outright looting of public resources...

Dear President Obasanjo et al…

While trying to build an empire for our families, we should remember that the persons on whose behalf we build will have to live among their peers...

Executive Kleptomania in Ekiti State

Have you ever been to Ekiti State? If you have, you will understand the depth of my consternation. Ekiti State is one of the poorest in the Federation. Other than a relatively higher percentage of Western education enjoyed by its people, the State has virtually nothing else going for it...

Kukah's Embarrassing Intervention

Kukah’s unfortunate defence of  Obasanjo’s abysmal misrule should provide a window for the examination of  his strange, embarrassing support and defence for Gana. His eager, uncritical romance with politics, and friendship with political figures like Obasanjo and Gana, have done untold damage to the sterling ideals he so jealously espoused...

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True Heroes of Africa

The darkest thing about Africa has always been the huge ignorance and misconceptions of this aptly termed cradle of civilization...

Policing ourselves: imagine that!

I wonder why we need to be policed all the time, why voluntary compliance is so lacking. Self-discipline has been thrown out the window, and we need the brutal arms of uniformed men to coerce compliance out...

The Bigger Picture in Ekiti Governorship Contest

A day after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...

In the Shadows of Unbridled Change

If Dibia’s book does not spark debate in Africa it is probably because that continent has a crushing burden of challenges that make the issue of homosexuality look trivial...

Forbes Billionaires: Dangote and Adenuga as symbols of Nigeria's growing economy

The emerging Nigerian business executives and Nigerian universities, especially the business schools, should look up and be willing to learn from the two most successful Nigerian billionaires.  Our universities must create curriculums on teaching students the models of operations and methodologies employed by the business trail blazers...

Ogboru’s Lincoln Argument and Otive Igbuzor

It’s strongly alleged that Great Ogboru wants to contest the 2015 guber election in Delta. For a man who has hitherto contested severally, got the people’s mandate all such times but in each case failed to get it right in the end, it is no wonder that tongues are now wagging...

Why IBB Will Win In 2011

The “Gap Toothed” General finally made public what has been a staple of Abuja political conversation in the past few months. No surprise there. It was only a matter of time before our ever dependable elasticity was tested again...

Is Your Faith Just a Holiday Habit?

As the calendar year nears its end, a familiar...

Nigerians! Wake Up!

The day we begin to focus more on our...

I don´t Blame Buhari

I don´t blame dictators for their tyranny. It is...