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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...

2023 Declarations: Between Political Rhetoric and Practical Reality

Since the airwaves began to be bombarded with top politicians in Nigeria, making their intentions to run for the highest office, I have watched...

Consortium of Presidents Will Save Nigeria

Nigeria has tried the one-man president formula for far too long, and it has not worked at all. What the country needs is a consortium...

The Rotimi Amaechi Factor, the APC and 2023 Presidential Race

Little by little, the haze on the political landscape is clearing and thawing. The race for the apex and most coveted political office in...

Nigeria and its Warped Politics and Political Perverts

That crazy (and actually dangerous, if we don’t mind the banditry, kidnapping, and terrorism) season is here in Nigeria again, where all governance ceases,...

Prof Bart Nnaji: A Fellow Sportsman in Enugu Governorship Race

By Emmanuel Okala, MON, ex - Eagles Goalkeeper Like most sportsmen and women in Nigeria, I was excited when it was reported that Professor Bart...

Nigeria: Beyond Being On Auto-Pilot

The belief in several quarters that Nigeria is currently on auto-pilot has been given a bad bashing by the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu...

Ilesa Varsity and PDP’s Diversionary Therapy

At last, Osun State College of Education, Ilesa (COEILESA), has been upgraded to a full-fledged University of Education. The approval was announced by the...

Time For The Government To Throw In The Towel

Any fellow with even the minutest knowledge of boxing knows that when a boxer takes too much punishment in the ring his manager throws...

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Obasanjo: A Namby-Pamby Appeal

Obasanjo is a president that is incapable of understanding basic fundamentals of problem solving. He portrays an impression of a traveller who cares less about the compass needed for his journey…

Implications Of The Failure Of The National Assembly To Amend The 1999 Constitution

The Senate President observed that the 2007 General Elections were rigged by his party, the Peoples' Democratic Party, using the Nigeria Police and the Military. It is a fact that majority of the members of the hallowed Assembly would not return because they failed to secure re-nomination...

Feminists are haters of Men

I've seen that this feminism of a thing is becoming another religion that is gradually creeping into our clime and many people will be killing each other for it soon...

International Seminar on the Future of Africa the New World Economic Order

The Seminar recommended that courses in International Law and Diplomacy should be held  at the Bradford Initiative Seminar Room, to  prepare University students for rigorous academic pursuit...

Writing The Wrongs In Publishing: Empowering Women Through Publishing (2)

...The point is made in very subtle ways that women writers are a kind of second class citizens who should be kept together, - out of the mainstream - to read and make critical analyses of their own works. In addition, if one were to look at review space on the pages of books, novels by men get better coverage...

Atiku’s Desperation to Resume Misrule

Obasanjo and Atiku ruined the most prosperous years of our nationhood. They knew NOTHING about governance but MUCH about misgovernance. They squandered what a man like Obafemi Awolowo would have used to put Nigeria ahead of the Asian tigers and Brazil...

Female Suicide Bombers

Like most people, I believe in God. But I...

On this one Olisa Agbakoba is wrong

If we want Nigerian airlines to expand, be profitable and to employ more people, the efficient way forward is to make them competitive and attractive to not only Nigerians but also to the rest of the world...

We Shall Overcome… Someday!

I have been to the mountaintops. I have seen my hope and I have refused to let go...

Our World Needs Healing: Remembering Michael Jackson, the Emperor of Rhythms

The concept of the Judeo Christian God is that...