Opinion
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I hate trains. I hate bridges. I hate rice. I hate tallest building East of the Niger. By FEMI ADESINA
Let me give the background to this piece. I was reading some comments on Twitter early in the week, when…
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Funtua: Honour not deserved (4) By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Last June when Mr. Sam Amuka Pemu aka Uncle Sam (pen name, Sad Sam) celebrated his…
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Can Naira be saved from further devaluation? By: SONNY IROCHE
In the complex interrelated Global Macroeconomics dynamics, a country’s currency is determined by a matrix of economic considerations and not…
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Kashamu: The verdict of history By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 In life, he was controversial; in death, no less. Who else but Kashamu Buruji, who boarded…
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Ismaila Isa Funtua: We began as adversaries … By FEMI ADESINA
For decades, I had known him as a politician, businessman, and media entrepreneur. His reputation was as impressive as his…
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The night Carrington staked life for Nigeria’s democracy
By Louis Odion, FNGE Lagos, like other states, was groping in the ghost land that Nigeria had become that dusk…
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Funtua: Honour not deserved (3) By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 We start the third part of our subject matter today with the views of three thoroughbred…
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Chinese African loans in perspective: Facts, records, myths – Nigeria’s case By Dr. Kazeem Bello
There has been recent outcry about the Chinese loans for projects development in Nigeria and its implications for the sovereign…
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With love for my brother, Femi Adesina By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he…
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Why we need to calm down By FEMI ADESINA
There’s this hilarious video that went viral recently. A boy had offended his mother, and was about to get a…
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Funtua, honour not deserved (2) By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 The fire stoked by the Nigeria Press Organisation, NPO, comprising the Newspaper Proprietors Association (NPAN),…
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COVID-19: Governor Wike’s succour strategy By Paulinus Nsirim
It is an incontrovertible fact that since the deadly coronavirus pandemic broke out globally, Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of…
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A 2023 agenda for southern Nigeria… (3) + Funtua: Honour not deserved… By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 I feel the compelling need to yield space to a few of our teeming readers…
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Adelusi-Adeluyi @ 80: The giver’s hand is on top By Louis Odion, FNGE
Not until playwright Sophocles sired character Oedipus in his definitive Greek play was human imagination tempted to consider the…
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Peter Obi: Game changer par excellence By Tai Emeka Obasi
For those who were not yet in secondary schools when HE Peter Obi became governor, you might truly have physically…
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The Buhari international community knows; Celebrating Adelusi-Adeluyi at 80 By FEMI ADESINA
The Nigerian President is different things to different people, depending on the prism from which he is being considered. To…
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GEJ meets PMB: A lesson for bitter-enders By FEMI ADESINA
In the build-up to the 2015 general elections, the country was divided right down the middle. On one side were…
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There Was A Warrior Called Ojukwu By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
He did not deliver on his promise to write “The Book” before his death. The fact that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu…
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Not corruption but banditry By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 I considered three other titles before settling for the one above: Banditry and not corruption;…
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Let’s join hands to make the NDDC work for Niger Delta and Nigeria By Pius Ughakpoteni
As a participant observer in the Niger Delta project, I am amazed that over the past few weeks an…
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That Ondo State may not burn… By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 It was with an air of clairvoyance that we started the series on Ondo governorship…
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TRIBUTE: At 59, Peter Obi, unyielding in integrity and commitment By Valentine Obienyem
I shall take the liberty to begin this piece with the conclusion. Today, the 19th of July, 2020, Mr. Peter…
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Tolulope Arotile: Too early for hangar in the sky By Femi Adesina
When a pilot dies, the colleagues say he or she has gone to the hangar in the sky. Hangar is…
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The imminent collapse of Eko Bridge By Sonny Iroche
Handle: @Irochesonny Our nonchalant attitude to governance and preemptive action against avoidable calamities as a country, to say the least,…
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A 2023 agenda for southern Nigeria…1 By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Some think it is foolhardy for the North not to want to relinquish power in 2023.…
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