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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...

There Could Be Some Method To Obasanjo's Ways Of Doing Things

Obasanjo's Wars against Corruption as derelict and one-sided as it may appear to many, is definitely doing some good. Today when you see a one time Inspector General, past and present Governors and intimate buddies of Mr. President in handcuffs to answer for their past misdeeds, it sends a powerful message to all Nigerians...

There Could Be Some Method To Obasanjo's Ways Of Doing Things

Obasanjo's Wars against Corruption as derelict and one-sided as it may appear to many, is definitely doing some good. Today when you see a one time Inspector General, past and present Governors and intimate buddies of Mr. President in handcuffs to answer for their past misdeeds, it sends a powerful message to all Nigerians...

Reaction to Gbenga Obasanjo

I can understand that Gbenga Obasanjo became lily-livered due to untold pressure brought to bear on him by his father's office and the decadent Nigerian political establishment since this story broke...For the sake of history, truth, sacrifice and the love for my country, I

stand by the story!

Citizens As Journalists

We constantly clamour for change in our society but refuse to accept the fact that age-old dogmas, beliefs and practices may have to give way to new paradigms. Change has only come to societies where the citizens will it...

Citizens As Journalists

We constantly clamour for change in our society but refuse to accept the fact that age-old dogmas, beliefs and practices may have to give way to new paradigms. Change has only come to societies where the citizens will it...

Ladoja Is Done – So What?

I was born in Ibadan and I understand the rudimentary politics of that state. Since the days of penkelemes to the days of the Cicero of Esa Oke till this day, no Governor in Oyo state ever gets a "thank you" for any task no matter how major...

Gift Giving and our Nascent Democracy

There is fraud in the land, and this fraud has been escalating in bountiful dimension since the beginning of this democratic dispensation. Our public officials have elevated the game of bribery and corruption and have come up with a system that has turned the African culture of giving on its head! This is Nigeria, anything can be anything...

Deji Of Akure: A Post Mortem of The Winners and Losers

I honestly believe that one of the observations that separate or distinguish the developed countries and the Free World from the developing ones and those still in mental chains, is lack of documentation. If you don't know where you are coming from, you are not too likely to know where you are going!

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Of Inflation and minimum wage demands in Nigeria

Is the perennial agitation for minimum wage increase justifiable? This is the question many people have been asking. From an economic point of view, continuous wage increase is not justifiable. In fact it is ruinous to the economy...

Unmasking the Corruption in Nigeria’s Prison System – A Call for Urgent Reforms

Nigeria’s prison system, notorious for its corruption and deplorable...

James Ibori: Nigerians’ Collective Shame

As I watched the end of James Ibori’s money laundering trial in London, UK, I knew that Nigerians could only manage a constricted sigh of relief. Yes, Ibori was headed for prison – 13 years...

Oyebanji @ 2!

On Wednesday, October 16, 2024, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (aka...

Goodbye “No Probs”: Tribute to Otunba Jobi Fele

The late Otunba Mohammed Jobi Fele possessed a lot of the values and attitude our society desperately needs today; he was best known for his virtues and capabilities as an efficient and honest administrator, successful and resourceful businessman, brave and focused industrialist, and on top of all that he was also known to be generous and humane...

Nigerian Politics and Why Neutrality is Untenable: J’Accuse Pius Adesami!

If not that Prof. Pius Adesamni is my Broda...

A Night Out With TOS Benson

Despite military dictatorship, Chief Benson exuded courage objectivity and independence. He used full-page paid advertisements to express his views on crucial National Matters so that you could not be in any doubt where he stood on those issues...

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Emerging Leaders And Citizens As Catalysts

The Obasanjo government may have laid the foundation for a new Nigeria, rescuing it from the claws of military oligarchs in 1999, but now is the time to move on...