Opinion
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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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Oba Haastrup: Radiance of the King By FEMI ADESINA
When we were being groomed as students of literature in the 1980s, one of the books we consumed was…
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Preserving soul of Nigeria’s Catholic Church from Pentecostal corruption By Benjamin Osekhojie Okoh
An Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN): Preserving the Soul of the Nigerian Catholic Church from…
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Performance activism and the false prophets in the public square Dr. Akin Olaniyan
It seems that the thin line between advocacy and spectacle is disappearing at a dangerously faster rate than regulatory ability…
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Much ado about Utomi’s shadow government By Bolanle BOLAWOLE
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Professor Pat Utomi, man of many parts but better known these days as a political activist and…
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The shame of Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road By Lasisi Olagunju
Mr. Dele Alake represents Ekiti State in the Federal Executive Council. Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola represents Osun State in the Federal…
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The president’s new Hausa, Igbo caps By Lasisi Olagunju
One hundred and seventy-nine Anambra kings gave President Bola Tinubu a chieftaincy title last week. They said the title, ‘Dike…
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Can an American Pope speak to Nigerian realities? By Dakuku Peterside
When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had elected Robert…
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Aso Rock’s voodoo statistics and my friend, Al Venter By Festus Adedayo
A couple of months ago, history walked on its two legs into my feeble embrace. When it did, I never…
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