Opinion

Since he won the primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo state in 2015, he has been galloping from one crisis to the other which has greatly affected the fortunes of the party, including during the last general elections. Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) has, indeed, found himself …

  turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 News, last week, that some land-grabbers poisoned Opa Dam, the main source of water supply to the Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife), Ile-Ife, made me sick to the marrows. What has taken over this country? How bold has criminals and criminally-minded persons …

The post-election actions and inactions of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration in Enugu State in sustaining the tempo of peace and good governance have further demonstrated the governor’s sheer dexterity, vision, passion and commitment to rapid development of the state as well as the wellbeing of the people. Gov. Ugwuanyi who …

I first came in contact with Professor Edward Oparaoji in a hotel in Washington DC during the Peoples Mandate Party breakfast meeting addressed by Dr Arthur Nwankwo, the Chancellor of Eastern Mandate Union and Peoples Mandate Party presidential candidate in 2003 Nigeria elections. I have followed Professor Eddie’s antecedents as …

  Still smarting from the national embarrassment of topping the odious table of states that have not been able to keep fidelity to payment of workers’ salaries, which are in arrears of many months, Kogi State is once more in the news.  Again, for the very wrong reason! The three …

LAST week, I was trapped for hours on the Isolo-Apapa Expressway in an unprecedented traffic gridlock. Many lanes of the so-called expressway were seized by articulated vehicles especially trailers carrying containers and fuel tankers, forcing other vehicles to drive against the traffic, in an effort to move forward since most …

By Ayodele Oni At last, Ekiti state governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, early this week forwarded to the State’s House of Assembly names of 14 persons to be appointed as commissioners. Two days after, the assembly, dominated by card carrying members of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) ratified the names. They are …

There are several Biblical Guides to  courage and victory in the face of extreme ungodly obstacles. One of such guides is the one recorded in Numbers that involved Caleb. As I tried to internalize the fundamentals of the victory of the Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and other PDP candidates in …

turnpot@gmail.com  0705 263 1058 Last Friday’s decision of the Osun election petition tribunal to shoot down the All Progressives Congress and its “impostor” governor, Gboyega Oyetola, while affirming “dancing PDP Senator” Ademola Adeleke as the duly elected governor of ”The State of Osun” or the state better known for its “Osun …

The pen is ordinarily a sword of justice; a tool for pounding oppressors and elevating heroes of democracy and rule of law. Unfortunately, in the hands of sworn peddlers of democratic discord and anti-people propagandists,it has now become a weapon to sustain election riggers and harass voice of reason in an …

(Opinion article sent in just before the Tribunal ruling declaring Senator Ademola Adeleke winner of the Osun State governorship election) Nigerian democratic experiment has passed through several phases.The turbulence of the polity can be demoralizing and the contestation can be truly ungodly.In the brickbat of power struggle at times emerged …

Suddenly, attention is shifting to Okotie-Eboh Primary School in Delta State. A video that has gone viral on social media shows little Miss Success Adebor protesting that her school sent her home because her parents failed to pay her exam fees. “Oh poor girl! Even the school is dilapidated!” And …

turnpot@gmail.com  0705 263 1058 Reading my “Now Amosun, Okorocha have repeated OGD’s mistakes…” (“TREASURES” column, New Telegraph of Wednesday, 13 March, 2019 Back Page), a reader asked why I did not include Oyo State’s Gov. Isiaka Ajimobi in the list. The reason is that while Ajimobi failed like his Ogun …

Whoever came up with the wise saying that Nigerian politics is dirty deserves an award for perspicacity. I have just returned from that dirtied, muddled up, confused, uncertain, unpredictable zone of Nigerian life and society with truck loads of stories in my head and enough impressions in my mind to …

  “If you are incapable of gratitude, you are incapable of noble sentiments. Even animals are grateful,”   —    By Sir George Bernard Shaw.   In that famous romantic Comedy, Arms and the Man,  Sir George Bernard Shaw, the English dramatist and playwright observed that  ‘If any man (by extension a community, society, country or even …

  On February 27, 2019, lawyer and activist, Mike Ozekhome, wrote a piece under the headline, ‘Buhari’s skewed view of the Igbo race.’ On face value, the piece seemed to advocate the cause of the Igbo race, but a dispassionate analysis shows it for what it truly is: drivel meant …

Twice on Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari displayed an uncommon generosity of spirit. We had set forth at dawn, shortly before 5 a.m, to visit the presidential campaign office in Central Area of Abuja. The purpose was for the President to read his victory speech, having been pronounced winner of the …

 I’d never had the head for figures. In fact, the enmity between me and mathematics was so bad that if you gave me a bottle, and you asked me to use the bottom to write the letter ‘o,’ it may likely come out as ‘p’ or ‘q,’ or even something …

  Who misadvised President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Samuel Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, using the instrumentality of an ex-parte order procured at the black market? Here, Danladi Umar and Julie Anabor apparently re-scripted the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) engagement rules last week, in Onnoghen’s …

turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Now, are the Igbo marginalised in the scheme of things in Nigeria? On the economic front, they do not appear so. Despite the bitterness of many Igbo against Awolowo’s 20 pounds policy after the Civil War, the Igbo are today at the commanding height of Nigeria’s economy. …

  Tues Jan 8, my arrival at Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport Abuja coincided with the arrival of the Presidential delegation to President Muhammadu Buhari’s flag off campaign in Yola, Adamawa state. I could not hide my curiosity to engage party and non-party stakeholders on the outcome of taking the campaign …

Choosing Peter Obi as the Vice Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, was a great delight to Nigerians all over the world. He had indeed been tested and trusted in the area of governance with particular reference to saving a sinking economy and fighting corruption while governor of …

 In all human societies, the Almighty God and Creator has always implanted people with a sense of propriety who serve to moderate the excesses of others. That way, we are not in a perpetual state of anarchy and can claim to be higher than other animals that we, often arrogantly, refer to …

What would happen if the Nigerian government proscribed ASUU, NASU, NANS and their cousins in polytechnics and colleges of education? What if, in a bid to prevent them from regrouping (as they did in 1988 by taking new names), the government outlawed unionism in all its forms in tertiary institutions? …

 Although boasting a lot of potential, Nigeria’s travel and tourism industry has remained in a state of near-misses and failed projections occasioned by the glaring gap and huge vacuum in the online travel booking space. According to available statistics, the direct contribution of Travel and Tourism to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic …