Opinion
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Nigerian hospitals: Now worse than mere consulting centres? By Bola BOLAWOLE (Yusuph OLANIYONU)
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 The story you are about to read is an abridged version of the true life experience of…
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My Seventh Decade: Writing my Autobiography to Reflect and Therapize By Isaac Megbolugbe
Gratitude, But So What? As I entered my seventh decade of life in 2022, I felt an overwhelming sense of…
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Nigeria: How did we get here? By Jeff Godwin Doki Ph. D
Oedipus Rex, that Greek mythology which has been popularised by Sophocles and Nigeria’s Ola Rotimi, presents to us a king…
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Protest: What Tinubu’s speech should have stressed – Peter Obi (Full text)
My Response to the President’s Address – Obi Having led the call for the President to address the nation and…
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Protesters of the North By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 5 August, 2024 They did what locusts do to farms. They spared almost nothing. They ate road slabs, pilfered…
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Tinubu, beware the gathering dark clouds (1) By Hassan Gimba
This was published on 10/05/2024, precisely five months ago. Was I clairvoyant? No, the signs were there for all to…
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Perspectives on #EndBadGovernance protests By Dakuku Peterside
We are witnessing some of the worst anti-government protests in our recent democratic history, fuelled by economic hardship, hunger and…
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NNPC Ltd: An all-round asset to Nigeria By Olufemi Soneye
In its editorial of 2nd August, 2024, the BusinessDay newspaper, characteristically, launched another scurrilous and baseless attack on the Nigerian…
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The protest, M̀gbekē and her cutlass By Festus Adedayo
Sunday August 4, 2024 There is this anecdote in Igboland of M̀gbekē and her cutlass. By the way, M̀gbekē is…
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‘Our government is committed to listening, addressing concerns of our citizens’ – Tinubu (Read full speech here)
BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY BOLA AHMED TINUBU, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA…
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Underage admissions controversy: The way forward By Bolanle BOLAWOLE
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Visit any of our institutions of higher learning and you begin to see toddler-undergraduates all over…
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Venezuela in the valley of hope By Nixon Uzoma
Venezuela was the first Latin American country I ever visited in 2001. It was a land awash with wealth as…
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New minimum wage: Matters arising By NZE NWABUEZE UMEJI-AKABOGU
The protracted minimum wage negotiation between the Federal government and Organized Labour finally ended on Thursday 18th July, 2024 with…
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The price we pay when legislators die By Azu Ishiekwene
We met last on April 21. I went to Asaba from Lagos to promote my new book, Writing for Media…
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Day Onyeka Onwenu came for the kill By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The sonorous songstress, Onyeka Onwenu, has just passed, but my duty here is to add the human angle to the…
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The familiar road of damnation By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Protest is all the rage in Nigeria today. Democracy allows for peaceful protest, but it is well-nigh impossible for overzealous…
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Akin Mabogunje: Scholar-practitioner model and national development By Prof. Isaac Megbolugbe
The late Emeritus Professor Akin Mabogunje was a quintessential scholar-practitioner whose work had a profound impact on Nigeria’s development. His…
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First of August: Much ado about nothing? By Bola BOLAWOLE
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Those threatening to stage nationwide protests are badly heating up the polity. The government that is…
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Of minimum wage, tortoiseshell and Akpabio’s threat By Hassan Gimba
“Unlike the stomach, the brain doesn’t alert you when it’s empty.” – Arabic proverb. There are many tales about how…
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Protest, Dangote and other stories By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 29 July, 2024 Nigeria is a drama, an entertainment. Listen to the ‘Wahala’ singer, Portable, as he wonders why…
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In government, size matters By Dakuku Peterside
Any government can easily undermine its credibility if it sends mixed signals on essential policy issues or initiatives, flip-flops from…
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Dangote and NNPC’s “Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo” dance By Festus Adedayo
July 28, 2024 Without moving his body, African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Akinwumi Adesina, waltzed his tall frame in a…
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Hardship protest: “Bi iwo ba se rere…” By Festus Adedayo
July 28, 2024 All of a sudden, President Bola Tinubu is running from pillar to post. The febrile fear with…
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As NNPC, Dangote trade tackles… By Bolanle BOLAWOLE
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 When two elephants fight, the grass, they say, suffers. But when cabals fight, and fight dirty…
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Nigeria’s economic downturn: We all share responsibility By Ladi Omole
Nigeria is currently experiencing a significant economic downturn, largely attributed to two major fiscal decisions: the removal of fuel subsidies…
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