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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...

Civic engagement: the Osun State Example

Not long ago, Osun State Government launched a feedback platform to further bridge the gap between policy implementation and the experiential realities of the...

2023 Presidency: Much Ado about Godwin Emefiele

The rumour mill has been raucously agog with an amalgam of assertions and insinuations that Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the incumbent Governor of Nigeria’s apex...

Soludo: The Job Meets the Man

It is crucial to state from the very beginning that Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo is a man of destiny. He did not hide it...

The Loud Silence Of PYO And The Mahuru Mahuru Of BAT’s Minions!

"I am a product of gifted INSULTS. "- BAT "Hate speech is a specie of TERRORISM" - PYO Our crowd-pleasing ace Afro-Juju music maestro, Chief Sunday...

Buying And Selling Human Beings

Many Nigerians will gladly sell themselves to travel out of Nigeria for keeps. Back in time, there were plenteous noises against the capturing of...

A Nigerian President from the Other Side of the War

It is 52 long years since the much-ballyhooed end of the Nigeria-Biafra war, yet nobody from the losing end of the war has served...

How To Kill A Third Term

Democracy and the African chief are mortal enemies. The chief in Africa sees himself as a permanent fixture who must never be disturbed by such...

Lessons from Osun APC Governorship Primary

“As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” -Winston Churchill The...

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Nigeria’s Sea Of Poverty And Her “Prosperous” Government!

Nigerians are being subjected to emotional labour by this government. Day by day we narrate dark-figured crimes. The manner in which we are exposing our inability to prioritize and solve more crucial problems first is crazy...

Emerging terror threats for Nigeria

Christian religious leaders in Bauchi who were in the thick of the action when the mayhem of February 22 lasted insist that the riots are the handiwork of terrorists in military uniform bent on perpetrating an agenda to unleash terror and to Islamize Nigeria...

Metaphor of the Beard

I remember growing up and wanting to have beard. At fifteen, all I ever dreamt of was having a face covered with hair. Why? Just so I could be respected by everybody around...

Marwa Will Do A Great Job At NDLEA

For those of us in the Diaspora, there is...

Why The Short And Ugly Are Married

The Nigerian man, aside listening to his mother's golden advice when its time to choose a life partner, wants a happy home, wants to be in control and be respected...

Blessed People, Reluctant (Political) Will, Little Direction

There can hardly be a greater obscenity than having a clergyman’s aircraft, just by sitting idle in a hangar at an airport, gulp millions of worshipers’ money every month while the worshipers are supposed to subsist on the whole package of faith, the Holy Spirit...

Ali Baba Jokes from Rags to Riches

The man bears a heavy-duty name, and it is...

The Withdrawal of US troops from Iraq

After six years of engagement in a contentious war in Iraq, there appears to have been a re-think about the military intervention in that country...