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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...

Another View Of Restructuring

The RESTRUCTURING debate is a smoldering topic that has continued to gain ascendancy in public discourses as the search for a magic formula to cure...

Buhari: Don’t Let Biafra Insurrection Grow Further

By Robert Nwadinobi President Muhammadu Buhari is a man of his word. When he pledged some two years ago that a free and fair election...

Epidemic of Dysfunctions

Oracles, who gave wings to their tongues. Scribes, whose minds ran gauntlet of taunts. Stenographers of time and secretaries to the oppressed, who cried...

Nigerian Elections are Bought and Sold Like Suya

There’s this book by Peter Enahoro entitled You Gotta Laugh to Cry. The so-called democratic elections in Nigeria almost always end up making all Nigerians...

Abba Kyari and the Nigerian Culture of Pseudo-Outrage

Nigerians are a very funny lot. Not only have we crowned ourselves a republic of clowns; we are an outrageous people, who are in love...

If Only AGF Malami Would Learn To Talk Sparingly

The best value sincere friends and associates of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, can inject in his career now...

After Asaba And Lagos Accords, What Next?

On May 11, 2021, Governors of Nigeria’s 17 southern states, under the aegis of the Southern Governors’ Forum, SGF, met in Asaba, the Delta...

Execution And Tracking Of Constituency Projects In Nigeria: Matters Arising

Simply put, Zonal Intervention Projects (ZIPs), also known as Constituency Projects (CPs), are projects that are conceptualised and executed on behalf of legislators in...

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Nigeria Under The Microscope: Are Christians Being Besieged Or Is This Just Political Noise?

Nigeria once again finds itself in the global spotlight,...

Nigerian Men Killing Their Wives – Calling A Spade What It Is Part [I]

What I am about to say here, I know, will annoy so many of our women. Some will like me but some will hate me. Nevertheless, I love our women and therefore, my only intention here is to inform and educate, period...

Is Government in Nigeria a family business?

Running the government by consensus without fiscal responsibility and accountability and robbing Peter to pay Paul is what has gotten us into the predicament we are now in...

University Teachers’ Strike: Why Nigerian Govt Is Not Perturbed

Now, let’s face it: there can only be one...

Nigeria Heading for Its Own Somalia

In a report credited to Robert I. Rotberg, the...

The Way Forward

Almost every Nigerian agrees with the assertion that corruption...

In A Lighter Mood: City of Jos As A Holiday Resort

This is an attempt at packaging, re-packaging, branding and re-branding the city of Jos after the last disturbance involving the indigenes and the Hausa/Fulani settlers that left scores of people dead and property destroyed...

Gov. Jang's Incompetence and the Politicization of The Jos Crisis

According to a newspaper report, total calm is still yet to return to Jos. It is for this reason that all hands must be on deck to find a lasting solution to the crisis which has led to the loss of many lives...

The Leadership Newspaper Vs. Reuben Abati

These days, I get easily angered by events happening in Nigeria. But probably nothing has riled me more than the latest garbage that emanated from the warped orifice of Reuben Abati, GEJ’s special adviser on media and publicity...