Opinion
-
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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.…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
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…
Read More » -
A Toast to Odia Ofeimun at 73 By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There is no better way of introducing Odia Ofeimun than pointedly stressing that “Odia Ofeimun is Odia Ofeimun!” Enough said.…
Read More » -
2023 election postscript By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 20 March, 2023) Under the cover of darkness, a dish was placed on a highway in Lagos at the…
Read More » -
A New Nigeria is still POSSIBLE By Dr Eddie IROH
JUST a fortnight ago I wrote my first ever article on Nigeria for a journal. I quoted the late British…
Read More » -
MC Oluomo, APC and Igbo in Lagos By Felix Oboagwina
April last year, I wrote an article, titled, “Didn’t Tinubu Just Goof On MC Oluomo?” The piece did a post-mortem…
Read More » -
The ‘good disappointment’ we want By FEMI ADESINA
It’s the figure of speech called oxymoron in literature, isn’t it? When you talk of a ‘good disappointment.’ When apparently…
Read More » -
INEC server and other election day stories By Azu Ishiekwene
For the third time since 1999, I voted at a general election on February 25 and did so without much…
Read More » -
I refuse to give up on INEC By Femi Adesina
Please permit me to start with response to a twist and contortion done by the lying online medium called Sahara…
Read More » -
Osinbajo: A Leader for All Seasons By Azu Ishiekwene
Trying to fit him into a mold can be sometimes problematic. I have always thought of him as a teacher…
Read More » -
Peter Obi: A new Nigeria is truly possible By Ike Chioke
When the storm of this general election is over, we shall be left with a few lessons. One is, never…
Read More »
