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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...

Third Term Still Possible for Obasanjo

For over a year now, Obasanjo knew he was going to seek a third term in office. He knew it; yet he did not prepare the country for such an eventuality until it was too late and in the process gave his enemies and critics the time and the chance to organize against him...

Somalia at our Corridor

We need to be vigilant and recruit real political armies against those bent on having their way at all cost. Nigeria cannot afford to shatter in the manner of Somalia...

Ndigbo: Their waning Economic Influence in Nigeria

Much as the Ibos cry over political alienation and marginalization by the Federal Government over the years, what has our collective leadership done to bring a creative turn around?

Ndigbo: Their waning Economic Influence in Nigeria

Much as the Ibos cry over political alienation and marginalization by the Federal Government over the years, what has our collective leadership done to bring a creative turn around?

Rethinking President Obasanjo

Long before Nelson Mandela, President Obasanjo was the man who was associated with high standards and probity.Somehow he threw all that away. How? Why?

President Obasanjo: The Man With A Selfish Intent

OBJ’s decision to seek a third term is creating a growing level of intolerance among other viable candidates, Nigerians in general and leaders of developed nations.OBJ’s intent is quickly and sadly building a high level of pessimism about Nigeria’s future...

President Obasanjo: The Man With A Selfish Intent

OBJ’s decision to seek a third term is creating a growing level of intolerance among other viable candidates, Nigerians in general and leaders of developed nations.OBJ’s intent is quickly and sadly building a high level of pessimism about Nigeria’s future...

Backward Nigeria of the White Man’s Dream!

One Paul Valley writing in today’s Independent glorifies the finance minister of Nigeria, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the woman who has power to change Africa. One greatly doubts how this Paul would fare in a test of honesty because; only rogues and idiots have seen any progress in the present Nigeria...

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Reaching For The Goal

I don’t read inspirational books, reason being that I believe they are junk. You know, books that tell you how to become a millionaire... I wonder if it ever works for anyone...

Pope Benedict XVI Lacks Moral Authority to Sanctimony

Pope Benedict XVI and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church deserve worldwide condemnation for failure and wanton neglect to act, again, and again and again in connection with the pandemic of sex abuses and molestations of children...

Agbani’s Sickening Folly: Responding to Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

What is it, what was it about a “bare breast” that so infuriated the author that he couldn’t help but call Agbani all sorts of names? I’d rather ogle and admire Agbani’s bare breasts than engage in hypocrisy and the level of intolerance and bitterness exhibited by Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye...

Fahrenheit 911

When you remember that good and evil are often two sides of the same coin, you have to understand why America is never going to be perfect...

Tribute To My Peerless Pearl – Deaconess Comfort Oluremi Ajala (1952 – 2021)

'Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world...

“6e” to the Rescue of National Capital

We must put a discontinuity to the slavery ideology in the governance of Nigeria and value mental development of Nigerians...

Ensuring Effective, Qualitative, Affordable and Accessible Health Care for All Nigerians Beyond 2007

Nigeria trains and develops human resources for health, but loses them to other sectors within the country and abroad due to relatively higher remuneration, welfare and motivation packages...

From U.S.A. with Love: See Me See Marriage

My older brother, Oyaw, lives in New York. In the summer of 2005 he went home to Naija to get married, dragging me along with him. His American girl friend was not told. My brother is educated but stupid...

Letter From London: Another October, More Khakistocracy

October holds memorable significance in my diary. It’s of course time of year to reflect on the state of our national journey since independence, which many of us still regard with great patriotic zeal despite the fact that the elapsing 45 years of unparalleled khakistocracy has condemned Nigerians to seeming perpetual purposelessness...

Between (their) Harcourt and (our) Port Harcourt

Extreme violence has given birth to chaos and anarchy in Port Harcourt. For the past week or thereabout, cultism and cults have taken over governance with their agents spreading death, destruction and mayhem...