Opinion
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Ex-Service Chiefs as Ambassadors. And why not? By FEMI ADESINA
That was what happened last week when the nomination of the immediate past Service Chiefs as non-career Ambassadors was announced.…
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Tribute to Barrister Osca Onwudiwe By Chief Bar Goddy Uwazurike
I met the man Barrister Osca Onwudiwe in the early 90s. But his reputation preceded him. To many of us,…
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2023: APC, PDP should give presidential tickets to South East zone – Uwazuruike, ex-president Aka Ikenga
Chief Goddy Uwazuruike, former President of Aka Ikenga in this interview discusses the nomination of the immediate past security chiefs…
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Lest the South-west explode in our face… By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 “There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes, he will move mountains.…
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Herdsmen and the Security Challenge By Dakuku Peterside
In the South West, Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho has recently been in the news. The self-styled…
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Deconstructing Fayemi @ 56 By Olatunde Abraham
If you are at the top, you’d certainly become the topic. The above saying goes well for the persona of…
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Please spare our fragile forests By Adeze Ojukwu
Nigerian environmentalists are petrified by the flagrant destruction of forests across Nigeria. Their foreign counterparts are equally alarmed at the…
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Nigerian Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB): Balancing Stakeholders’ interests By Prof Chijioke Nwaozuzu
There is a fundamental interdependence between host countries and the international oil companies (IOCs) in the development of natural resources.…
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The Priest and the President By FEMI ADESINA
Let’s go back in time to May 2004, when the lands of Yelwa-Shendam, in Plateau State, had turned crimson. Primitive…
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Inside PMB’s first meeting with new Service Chiefs By FEMI ADESINA
Whenever you see them file in, it is always in this order: Chief of Defence Staff first, followed by Chief…
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Igangan, Igboho and the burden of history By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his…
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COVID-19 RELOADED By Dakuku Peterside
That Nigeria currently battles with a second, more deadly wave of Covid-19 is no longer in doubt. The numbers are…
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N500 million donation: Have we lost our sense of humanity? By Paulinus Nsirim
Our attention has been drawn to the verbal furore generated in some quarters by Governor Nyesom Wike’s recent comment that…
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The New Nigeria we seek to build – By Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa
Speech by Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa at the launch of the New Nigeria Group (NNG) at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja on…
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Reflections from a Wreath Laying ceremony By FEMI ADESINA
There’s no year I attend the Wreath Laying Ceremony marking the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration that I don’t shed…
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Wike in history By Paulinus Nsirim
Rivers State was on the global map for three weeks as eminent citizens of Nigeria joined Governor Nyesom Wike to…
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2021 Budget: Why selling national assets to fund budget deficit will be counter productive By Dr. Kazeem Bello
The fallout from the Minister of Finance’s Ministerial Briefing on the 2021 Nigeria’s National budget is mainly the proposed action…
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Governor Wike silences critics with legacy projects By Paulinus Nsirim
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike started 2021 pretty much the same way he ended 2020, by playing host to a number…
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A postscript on Uganda’s election. By Dakuku Peterside.
Ugandans went to the polls last weekend in a hotly contested election and supposedly re-elected President Yoweri Museveni for a…
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COVID-19 and the dynamics of climate change adaptation
Adeze Ojukwu COVID-19 has continued to rattle the world and ram its economy, since its stormy advent in 2019. Most…
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Nigeria: No real industrial growth without government-led industrialization policy By Dr. Tim Anusiem
It is now clear from all indications that Nigeria’s economic growth has once again stalled since after the last recession…
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Farewell Prof Ebere Onwudiwe By Apollos Nwauwa
Nigeria has lost another eminent scholar, Prof Ebere Onwudiwe. He died in the early hours of Saturday, January 9, of…
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Unending tussle between OAU and Ife ‘land-grabbers’?
By Bola Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 When one had thought the matter was settled, drums of war were beaten…
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Lawan: A messenger of harmony @62 By OLA AWONIYI
High political office is surrounded on all sides by distractions. Experience best teaches this. It is not enough to take…
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The Federal Republic of Bulldozers. By Owei Lakemfa.
THE stories I am going to tell in this very short piece would have been regarded as fiction except that…
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