November 07, 2023 Corruption has long been a pervasive issue in Nigeria, particularly within some government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), which may not be necessary to name and shame at this time, but are well known by both Nigerians and Foreigners who transact businesses with them, for their history …
Read More »Peter Obi: My position on Supreme Court’s verdict on Presidential election petition appeal
From Courtrooms to National Conscience: Our Democracy is the Victim Remarks at a Press Conference by Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, CONPresidential Candidate of the Labour Party on The Supreme Court Judgment of 26th October, 2023 On the 2023 Nigeria Presidential ElectionHeld in Abuja, FCT, on [Monday 6th November, 2023Protocols, 1.Fellow …
Read More »Politics of Statistics in Nigeria By Dakuku Peterside
Statistics should help settle arguments, in theory. We assume they provide stable reference points that everyone – no matter what their opinion, persuasion, belief, or politics is– can agree on. However, there has been a global trend in recent years showcasing that divergent levels of trust in statistics have become …
Read More »Amaechi’s glib talk and threat to democracy in Rivers By Alabi Williams
06 November 2023 Rotimi Amaechi, former minister and governor of Rivers State, at a public lecture on Thursday, October 26, sounded rather melancholic. For a man who has been in government since 1999, first as two-term speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly and later as governor for eight years, …
Read More »Abobaku, japa and Tinubu ‘haters’ By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 6 November, 2023 “We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it.” I do not know under what condition Bob Dylan wrote that song line. All I know is that it serves my purpose as I sit here at the bank of Nigeria searching for …
Read More »Why was Wike admiring Adedibu’s bust? By Festus Adedayo
November 5, 2023 Apologia: Though the most trending issue at present is the yacht yaks, my offering today will not dwell on it. Nor will I want to talk about the army of deliberately befuddling narratives on the yacht from the Nigerian authority. Today’s is also not about the familial …
Read More »Atiku, Obi and the Road to Kilimanjaro By Azu Ishiekwene
Former vice president and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, said on Monday that Nigeria was the bigger loser in last week’s decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. That was a convenient exaggeration to hide his misery. But it was …
Read More »Justice is what the people say By Abraham Ogbodo
I have known Dr. Reuben Abati almost from the cradle. We were not only in the same university but the same department. When he was leaving University of Calabar in 1985, he had in his bag, all the prime prizes. The best graduating student of the University which meant he …
Read More »Between Wike and Gumi, who really owns Abuja? By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 30 October, 2023 Before Abuja, there was Lagos as our Federal Capital. And this is where I would want to believe that there is something about our North and Federal Capital Territories. Before independence and immediately after independence, Lagos had a succession of two ministers of Lagos Affairs, both …
Read More »Budget of booby traps By Dakuku Peterside
There is a deafening silence in the land over the state of the economy. No right-thinking person can take this silence or mood of the nation for granted. This eery silence is invariably linked to a cost-of-living crisis, exchange rate crisis, uncanny economic uncertainties and other unfavourable economic variables hovering over Nigeria …
Read More »Justice Dantijjo, public opinion and the rumble in Supreme Court’s jungle By Festus Adedayo
October 29, 2023 Is there any connect between law and public opinion or judgments and public opinion? Before Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad’s (rtd) valedictory speech at the Supreme Court last Friday, the connect or disconnect between those two had begun to assume a life of its own. The presidential election …
Read More »Expect the best, but prepare for the worst By Rev. Fr. Peter Iwuala
Life will inevitably involve failure, but it can also provide invaluable life lessons. Resilience and success both depend on having an optimistic outlook. With this kind of thinking, people can see failures as opportunities for personal development, for enhancement of their ability to solve problems; and for preservation of their emotional …
Read More »Gumi’s extremism shames decency By Azu Ishiekwene
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, 60, is a medical doctor and retired army captain. But he has not had a job after retirement 37 years ago. His day job since has been bandits’ advocacy. He has become so used to getting away with saying what he likes when he likes and how he likes …
Read More »The greatest contribution to human advancement By Nelson Aluya
Tribalism is the emperor of all isms By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Tribalism is the ism topping all isms! All the talk of Socialism, Communism, Humanism and so on must now be put on one side to make way for the true king of the jungle: Tribalism! Of all the isms of the whole wide world, the most triumphant ism is without …
Read More »Mohbad: When the highly-connected can kill and go By Felix Oboagwina
Two highly-connected characters have their hands soiled in circumstances climaxing in the tragic death of 27-year-old Afrobeat Rapper and Musician, Mohbad, on September 12. Sam Larry is one. This music promoter and Lagos socialite flaunted his heavy connection with the high and mighty, climaxing in him posting a selfie with …
Read More »Epidemic of illicit arms By Dakuku Peterside
From the small handguns of the 15th century to the sophisticated machine guns and other small and light weapons of our time, the world has suffered mayhem and wanton destruction due to the rightful and wrongful use of these weapons. In the hands of non-state actors, these weapons are used …
Read More »A Yoruba king’s Sodom and Gomorrah By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 23 October, 2023 Susanne Wenger was famous as Adunni Oloriṣa. The BBC in 2008 described her as “white priestess of ‘black magic.'” A Nigerian said she was “white priestess of an African goddess.” Until her death in 2009, she was the custodian of Osun Osogbo grove and everything connected …
Read More »Freudian fraud, Akpabio and EFCC chair By Festus Adedayo
October 22, 2023) Father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, must have had the conversation last week between Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the recently cleared Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede in mind. While propounding the theory of what is now known as Freudian slips …
Read More »Tribute to Prof. Joe Irukwu: Pioneer, doyen of Nigerian Insurance Industry By Sonny Iroche
We gather to pay our respects and bid farewell to a remarkable individual, Professor Joe Ogbonnaya Irukwu, our own very dear, Dee Ogbo, as most of us fondly called him. He was a pioneer and doyen of the Nigerian insurance industry, who left an indelible mark on the sector and …
Read More »Making of A Better Society By Azu Ishiekwene
I grew up thinking that a judicious mix of crime, sex and money might not only help a publisher turn a good profit but could also be the catalyst for a better society. But my friend, the Publisher/Editor-In-Chief of NaijaTimes, Ehi Braimah, subscribes to a slightly different model. When he …
Read More »Salute to Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, OFR, SAN, as he takes a bow from the ICPC By Sola Akinrinade
One day, several months ago, I was on a flight to Abuja with a Senator who said to me, “Prof, you need to warn your Chairman; the way he is going, he is not going to get a second term because we are not going to confirm him.” My response …
Read More »Africa in the Turbulence of a World in Search of Direction By Dr J. ‘Kayode Fayemi
Being Text of the Annual Lecture Delivered by His Excellency, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, CON, Former Governor of Ekiti State and Former Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum to the Society for International Relations Awareness (SIRA) on Wednesday 18 October, 2023, Abuja, Nigeria. Protocols Allow me to start by celebrating the …
Read More »Once upon a life on the dangerous seas By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The talk of oil thieves across the waters of the Niger Delta has made me to remember the journeys I undertook through the seas and waters once upon a dangerous assignment in my journalism doings. It was a journey of immense wonder and danger sailing on the waters of the …
Read More »Surviving Nigeria’s Pan-Fulani President with Sunday Igboho By Felix Oboagwina
After a house detention spanning two years, Nigeria’s Sunday Igboho earlier this month finally secured his freedom from Benin Republic. He did not return to Nigeria. He jetted out to Germany. Igboho, 56, a Yoruba nation separatist and whose real name is Chief Sunday Adeyemo, ran afoul of that Francophone …
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