Opinion
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The Smart Alec called Achraf Hakimi By Festus Adedayo
April 16, 2023 The divorce epidemic in the world and its attendant crises in divorce property sharing assumed a different…
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The final gallop home By FEMI ADESINA
There’s a saying in Yoruba language that the horse does not spurn the final gallop home. True. Home is that…
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Why Trump’s trial doesn’t make America special By Azu Ishiekwene
Donald Trump consolidated his record in demagoguery when he became the first former US president ever to be criminally indicted…
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Overlap of Ramadan, Passover, and Holy Week: Lessons for Generations By Ebuka Ukoh
Christians, Jews, and Muslims worldwide just celebrated an unusually holy week. Major holidays for the faithful fell on the same…
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The terrorists are back By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 10 April, 2023 My mystery Hausa friend has been busy with me lately. He has been firing a series…
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Security vote and transition stories By Dakuku Peterside
In 2021, State governors and local government chairmen in the 36 states of the Federation collected over N375 billion from…
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Otti reaffirms commitment to make Abia prosperous
By Leonard Okachie Umuahia, April 9, 2023 Abia Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti, has reaffirmed his commitment to reposition Abia on…
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Is Soyinka, the god, unraveling? By Festus Adedayo
April 9, 2023 Kongi, Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, a deity before whom many Nigerians tether goats, sprinkle oil, pour libations and…
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Astonishing times of “Mr. Radio,” Ben Egbuna By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
A Destiny Fulfilled by Ben Egbuna; Diamond Publications Ltd, Lagos; 2021; 387pp It reads stranger than fiction that Ben Egbuna…
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Prof Nnenna Oti: How Buhari loves them By FEMI ADESINA
There’s a striking similitude between what happened in the gubernatorial election in Ekiti State in 2009, and Abia State in…
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Vote my tribe or I kill you By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Democracy has been turned into coup at the polls – and the result is announced in the darkest wee hours…
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The fiction of an interim government By Festus Adedayo
April 2, 2023 Some huge, evil men surround a big, black pot. It is apparent that a food is being…
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Encounter with a prophet By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 3 April, 2023 Like Nigeria’s multiple-award winning poet, Professor Niyi Osundare, I am also “farmer-born, peasant-bred.” Like him, I…
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The fiction of an interim government By Festus Adedayo
April 2, 2023 Some huge, evil men surround a big, black pot. It is apparent that a food is being…
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Oil in Nasarawa: Buhari does it again By Femi Adesina
First it was at Kolmani, in Bauchi/Gombe States, and now President Muhammadu Buhari has struck again. In a region some…
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Africa: Why does Burna Boy rock more than Nigeria’s elections? Azu Ishiekwene
From Accra to Cape Town images of Nollywood, Nigeria’s popular movie footprint, are a common staple in homes across the…
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Policing the Police for the People By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Nigerian policemen and women can be more dangerous than armed robbers and bandits any day of the week for sure.…
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Lagos – The melting pot for all By Prof. Echefuna’ R. G. ONYEBEADI
My beloved Elder Tim Akano, your rejoinder to the article of Alhaji Femi Okunnu SAN, on the contemporary history of…
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Elections: Lessons from Oyo to Nigeria By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 27 March, 2023 “The ides of March are come,” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar says in utter derision and dismissal of…
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The CJN on wheelchair By Festus Adedayo
March 26, 2023 “If you are unlucky not to have a representative in the judicial council, even if you are…
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Dodgy elections, democracy and divorce: Before the sun sets By Dakuku Peterside
Nigerian elections and Nigerian marriages have a lot in common. Both should be sacrosanct. They are conducted with pomp and…
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Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu, NADECO and his spin doctors! By Professor Echefuna’ R. G. ONYEBEADI
Your Excellency, Rev. Dr. Peter Obada, thanks for your forwarded post captioned: “A MUST READ INTERVIEW BY ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED…
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Louis Odion: The Matter of ‘Capacity’ By Azu Ishiekwene
Sometimes it feels like we have been childhood friends. That we have known each other forever. For over 30 years…
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Peter Obi as the game changer! – Important corrigenda By Professor Echefuna’ R. G. ONYEBEADI to Tim Akano’s ‘Paradise lost again’
My beloved Elder Tim Akano, your article captioned: “PARADISE LOST AGAIN” and reproduced below for ease of reference, makes an…
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Federal Republic of Thuggery By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Shamelessness is the vilest disease of the Nigerian establishment. The shameless mode of the leaders of Nigeria was activated in…
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