Opinion
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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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Trump’s character tragedy: Lessons for Nigeria . By Dakuku Peterside.
“Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.” – Mahatma Gandhi. It was apparent…
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Interrogating Falana’s Ekiti State University Convocation Lecture – 4 By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 We continue with Femi Falana’s Ekiti State University Convocation Lecture: “Awolowo and Restructuring: No doubt, Chief…
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Mutawalle, Our Own Chancellor of the Exchequer By Muhammad Bello
Statesmen everywhere around the globe are a success story not only politically but in terms of superb management of men…
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Nigeria’s second wave of cervical cancer: How we can eliminate the silent killer By Dr Abia Nzelu
The whole world is currently grappling with the second surge of COVID-19 infection. This pandemic destabilized year 2020, affecting over…
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COVID-19 and the Professors By FEMI ADESINA
I hate to see professors die. And in recent days, we have lost three of them to the strange ailment…
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To Comrade Isa Aremu: A tribute By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 On Friday, January 8, 2021, Comrade Issa Obalowu Aremu turns 60. According to him, a month-long…
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2021: Year to calm down, and wail less By Femi Adesina
When the year 2020 popped out of the womb of time, nobody knew that it was going to be what…
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Build factories, not churches or mosques By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Comparing notes with Comrade Issa Aremu a few days ago, we wondered why things are always…
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