Opinion
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Two harrowing years and living in denial By Alabi Williams
On May 29 (today), it will be two years since President Tinubu was inaugurated to manage the affairs of the…
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Two years of Tinubu’s presidency: A legacy of missed opportunities By Audu Liberty Oseni
Nigerians were promised renewed hope, bold reforms, and decisive leadership two years ago. As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu crosses the…
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Akin Mabogunje: Embodying national development through Traore’s exemplary leadership By Isaac Megbolugbe
May 27, 2025 Introduction The late Professor Emeritus Akin Mabogunje was a renowned scholar who made significant contributions to the…
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Confusing pressure group with shadow government By Alabi Williams
If people in government truly grasp the enormity of the task at hand, they ought to be having sleepless nights…
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Ibadan-Oyo war of supremacy over obas council By Lasisi Olagunju
At the Alaafin’s Garden Hall in Oyo on 6 November, 1934, Alaafin Siyanbola Ladigbolu held a stormy meeting with the…
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Peeping into Adegoroye’s book: “Leadership in Nigerian Civil Service…” By MARTINS OLOJA
As a reporter, writer, editorialist and columnist, I love good books and I have invested in a lot of them.…
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Compulsory voting bill: A wild goose chase By Bolanle BOLAWOLE
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 A compulsory voting bill is said to have passed the second reading stage at the National…
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Implications of not prioritizing national interest By Oseloka H. Obaze
Most Nigerians contend that Nigeria is not working as it ought to. There are several reasons for this, aside from…
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Gatekeepers or spectators? National Assembly’s two-year performance gap By Dakuku Peterside
Last week’s column took state governors to task, and the response was electric: inboxes flooded, phone lines buzzed, and hashtags…
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Tinubu’s lifejacket and a deer’s sacred skin By Festus Adedayo
What hunters see in the forest is enough to make children of men without balls blind. An ethnographic study of…
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Tinubu’s ‘boy – boy’ politicians By Emeka Obasi
There is a thin line between Stomach Infrastructure and Treachery. President Bola Tinubu will be in tears following the looming…
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JAMB: Is the age controversy still raging? By Bola BOLAWOLE
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 The Appeal Court gave a ruling in the case of the local government…
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A tribute to Prof. Obijiofor Aginam: A visionary at crossroads of global health, peace, education By Shumm-u-él Mulenga Bukata Chanda
In a world marked by complex crises, from pandemics to conflict, misinformation to inequality, few voices echo as powerfully, as…
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₦47 trillion later: A mid-term reality check for state power By Dakuku Peterside
The halfway mark of any journey invites a reckoning, and politics is no exception. In mature liberal democracies, the reckoning…
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RE: Too Little, Too Late: The Frankenstein lamentations of Generals By Dr. Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia
Recently I read a public letter titled “Too Little, Too Late” by General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (GCON), former Chief of…
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JAMB, glitches and an inter-tribal war By Lasisi Olagunju
The enemy is behind everything that happens to anyone here. In electronics and computing, a glitch is an unexpected software…
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Good governance isn’t rocket science By Oseloka H. Obaze
Nigerians rarely take pride in their incumbent leaders. They have good reasons not to. As a sixty-five year old nation,…
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NNPC’s Ojúl’arí ọ̀rẹ́ ò dé ‘nú By Lasisi Olagunju
In Yoruba, there is a proverb: “Ojú l’arí, ọ̀rẹ́ ò dé ‘nú” — literally it means ‘we only see the…
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The Katsina extravaganza and the Shata–Rarara debate By Hassan Gimba
About three weeks ago, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in Katsina, where he charged the Nigerian Army to end the…
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Ishaq Oloyede’s tears and Nigeria’s horror scenes By Festus Adedayo
In May, 2016, a young man got abducted by three men. They drugged him and gouged out his two…
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JAMB mass failure: Beyond JAMB, what next? By Bolanle BOLAWOLE
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 “Should we, then, return to the old system of institutions conducting admissions independently, as some aggrieved…
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Time to prepare for war on truth (2) By Martins Oloja
(Concluding Remark on World Press Freedom Day when the Editors and SERAP celebrated the Day on March 3, 2025) As…
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Review of Ijeoma Anyanechi’s short story, ‘Our Last Game’ By Ken Ike
I did not mean to read Ijeoma Anyanechi’s short story, “Our Last Game” the evening that I read it. I…
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The weight of unresolved grief: A family’s story By Isaac Megbolugbe
May 16, 2025 Introduction The impact of unresolved grief on individuals and families can be profound and far-reaching. In the…
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Sonala strikes seventy: There is only one Ess-Oh! By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Thursday, May 15, marked the 70th birthday of the inimitable journalist’s journalist Sonala Olumhense. I doubt that I would ever…
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