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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...

The Masses as Instruments

Politics, ultimately, is about the people. Policymakers always allude to the interest of the masses as the raison dètre of their policy contents. It...

Kano-Maradi Rail Project: Amazing Piece of Wrong Journalism

It’s amazing what partisan reporting can do to a distressed nation. The reports that came out of the request by the Presidency to the...

Fani-Kayode: Footsteps of the Forerunner

Just like a flash of lightning and the sound of the thunder, the media space was buzzing with the news of Femi Fani-Kayode's defection...

Buhari, Health of the Nigerian Nation and the Human Body

The Nigerian Human Body and the Body of the Nigerian Nation are continually interacting with one another. They ought to be interacting harmoniously but...

Ghana-Must-Go Bags of Mass Destruction

The bag named Ghana-Must-Go is at the very root of all the evils afflicting our dear country Nigeria. All the funds voted for the cure...

Alliance of Nigerian Leaders and Igbo Dropouts

All that any Igbo charlatan needs to hoodwink many a Nigerian leader is to claim that he has the beans to bring the Igbo...

Not On Their Watch!

Adegboyega Oyetola and Olugbenga Babatunji are two leaders in their own right. While Oyetola is the Governor of Osun State, Babatunji is the Bishop...

Capitulation Of Boko Haram, ISWAP Elements – Need For Caution

A couple of weeks ago, the Nigerian Military High Command announced that several commanders and members of Islamist insurgent group, Boko Haram and one...

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An Open Letter to the President of the Feudal Republic of Nigeria

Mr. President, I am not one of those beer drinking Nigerians that say your administration is the worst in the history of our nation. Far from it. You have done some things right, but you have gotten more things very wrong...

Democracy: A Rebuttal to Socratic Pessimism

Socrates’ critique of democracy, as preserved in Plato's works,...

To ‘Flush’ or Not To ‘Flush’

From a religious perspective, it is all too easy for us to sit in the comfort of an armchair and place a value on anyone who decides to practice abortion. But abortion is one issue we cannot view with any degree of objectivity using religion or science...

Men In The Pursuit Of Love

I have always wondered why we men can't easily resist the emotional pull that beautiful women exact on our hearts...

Letter to The Guardian Editor: Awaiting UBA-Zenith Merger

As a close watcher of recent trends in the Nigerian banking sector, I observed that a lot have been said about having a global bank emerge from Nigeria...

Pseudo-Leadership And Nigerian Politics

All of these pseudo-leaders who like posing as leaders, are leading the country on the path of ruination and destruction. And the irony is: If they are allowed to destroy the country, they also destroy themselves...

Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport or a Siddon Look Matter

Any true democracy and constitutionalism is maintained through active involvement, engagement and participation by the electorate and the citizenry...

Should MEND Become a Political Party?

The Niger Delta militants are not one organisation operating under a common leadership with unified ideology. There is no central chain of command or a clearly defined political ideal. Rather, the militants are a loose eclectic mix of several aggrieved armed factions...

Between Atiku and Obasanjo: Beyond the rhetoric

In the street fight between the president and his "vice" truth is indeed very scarce to come by. Both camps have behaved as if they have the monopoly of truth...

Are Some Men Really “More” Equal? Identifying the Trained Elephant in You

Many of us exist in various states of mental freedom. Whilst the fetters and chains have been physically removed and laws have long declared us free, many of us continue to struggle with our mental freedom for various reasons...