Opinion
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Rescuing the Nigerian middle class By Dakuku Peterside
Last week, I extensively talked with a set of enterprising, upwardly mobile young men and women in Abuja. I chose…
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On El-Rufai’s axe and Nkrumah’s letter By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 3 July, 2023 Immediate past Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, recently waxed proverbial and made a Facebook post which…
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Dr. Mo’s Thinking in Time By Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze
Remarks By Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze at the launch of The Nigeria Dream by Dr. Moses Paul, Merit House, Abuja, Sunday…
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Tinubu, NASS, Govs should also make sacrifices
30th June 2023 Punch Editorial Board AMID general hardship, poverty-inducing policies and calls for even more sacrifices from the citizenry,…
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Emefiele: How to kill an orphan By Steve Osuji
ORPHAN BOY AND FALL GUY: Just yesterday, President Bola Tinubu declared he would not prosecute immediate past president, Muhammadu Buhari…
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Titan and Migrants: Two tragedies, different stories By Azu Ishiekwene
It doesn’t make sense to weigh tragedies on a scale. How do you measure them? Leo Tolstoy got it right…
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Tinubu discovers ice in Macondo By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Let the whole wide world join me in universal celebration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has just repeated the…
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A service chief for the Igbo By Lasisi
Monday, 26 June, 2023 There was a time in Nigeria’s media history when a certain Ebenezer Williams was arguably one…
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Sustaining the momentum of hope By Dakuku Peterside
Every new marriage comes with some level of excitement. This may be due to love, lust, anticipation, or newness. The everyday drudgery…
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Titanic’s crash and anger of Olokun, the Sea goddess By Festus Adedayo
June 25, 2023 The world is in a mourning mood. After a fruitless five-day search for a missing deep-sea submersible…
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Buhari’s legacy puts Tinubu in tight spot By Azu Ishiekwene
Those familiar with road travel before fancy luxury buses and jeeps displaced wooden-back Bedford light trucks, famously called mammy wagons,…
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Asari Dokubo in Aso Rock Villa By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 19 June, 2023 In 1948, Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, thought of the best way to protect his…
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Anatomy of presidential engagement By Dakuku Peterside
In the sphere of presidential engagement and communication, Nigeria has had different shades of Presidents, from the docile and absent,…
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A honeymoon with Tinubu By Festus Adedayo
June 18, 2023 This season, President Bola Tinubu is harvesting big pods of cocoa from his plantation. His co-farmers are…
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Grappling with the Heart of the Nigerian Matter – Review of Austin Avuru’s “Politics, Economics & the Nigerian Petroleum Industry By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Politics, Economics & the Nigerian Petroleum Industry (3rd Edition) Essays by Austin Avuru; RADI8 Ltd, Lagos; 2022; 474pp Let’s start…
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Plugging gaps in the students’ loan scheme By Azu Ishiekwene
Within minutes of the release of the video of President Bola Tinubu signing the students’ loan bill into law,…
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Restoring the spirit of June 12 By Dakuku Peterside
Democracy is taken for granted as the best form of government. At least the West told us so. We have…
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The road Emefiele took By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 12 June, 2023 In the end, we realise that nothing really belongs to us; not power, not life. Power…
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Emefiele, El-Rufai, Aregbesola and their Bata drums Festus Adedayo
June 11, 2023 The Batá is a Yoruba drum that is in a class of its own. It used to…
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What does it mean to be a father today? By Azu Ishiekwene
I’m getting ahead of myself. Father’s Day is still next Sunday. But after the Executive Editor of LeVogue, LEADERSHIP’s Fashion and Lifestyle…
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Sub-nationals: The bumpy road ahead By Dakuku Peterside
Last week I listened to or read the speech of at least a dozen newly elected governors, and I must…
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Still in the forest of the heartless By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 5 June, 2023 It was quite nice seeing President Bola Tinubu as he waltzed into the chambers where he…
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Joe Biden’s fall and a shaking Nigeria By Festus Adedayo
America was a pitiable sight last Thursday. That great country was crouched on the bare floor. It fell like a…
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Tinubu biting the bullet from day one By Azu Ishiekwene
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is under fire for announcing that petrol subsidy is gone from day one. His inauguration address…
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Efficient passport administration: Major challenge facing new leadership of Nigeria Immigration Service By Dr. Charles Okafor
The perennial passport scarcity and inefficient administration of the processes are major challenges the Acting Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration…
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