Opinion
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Political jigsaw! – A response to former Speaker, Rt. Hon Bright Omokhodion By Echefuna’ R. G. ONYEBEADI
My very beloved Rt. Honourable Speaker Emeritus, Rt. Hon Bright Omokhodion, you have written it as you feel it. Thanks…
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Why is Africa playing with fire? By Azu Ishiekwene
There is fire in Ouagadougou. And who’s to say where it’s catching next? For the second time in eight months,…
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Buhari’s footprints on waterways By FEMI ADESINA
It’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? You can’t physically see footprints on water, but then, that’s what President Muhammadu Buhari has…
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Femi Falana, SAN: Your client’s publication on Zinox Chairman, cheap blackmail By E. Ezuka
I have followed with interest the case of what appears to be an attempted blackmail by your client, Mr. Benjamin…
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Is Atiku reaping what he sowed? By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807552 5533 “What goes around, goes around, goes around/Comes all the way back around” – Justin Timberlake “For they…
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Now that the campaigns have begun… By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Now that the campaigns towards the 2023 elections have started, what will the candidates campaign with?…
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In search of unity – 62 years after By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
No Nigerian leader thus far has been able to breast the unity tape. Forget all the fine words and promises…
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Obidients, Buhari and October 1st By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 3 October, 2022 I learnt yesterday that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed…
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Exodus of the next generation; time to be concerned By Dakuku Peterside
Forced migration and its concomitant enslavement of the African was a blight on the world’s collective conscience between the 1500s…
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Nigeria’s morning has come; Time to rescue country from clutches of failure, rascality, corruption – Obi
PETER OBI’S FULL SPEECH ON NIGERIA’S 62 INDEPENDENCE DAY FELLOW Nigerians, as our dear country marks her 62nd Independence anniversary,…
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Endgame Ekweremadu By Prof. M.O Ene
Senator Ike Ekweremadu is a serving senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and an unprecedented three-term deputy senate president.…
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I’ve resolved to bequeath sustainable democratic culture that will remain lasting – says Buhari (Read full speech here)
INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA DELIVERED ON THE…
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I miss the South East we used to know By FEMI ADESINA
Each time I read of killings by gunmen in the South East, I go into the doldrums. I get mortified…
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Anatomy of Wike’s endgame By Azu Ishiekwene
When the row between Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), spilled onto the…
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The burgeoning kidnapping industry By Dakuku Peterside .
Nigeria is a land of mysteries with too many unexplained and unexplainable phenomena. It is inexplicable that it has not…
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Of all things, ‘ponmon’ lo kan! By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Decades ago, I remember reading a piece by a writer lamenting the sudden but astronomical shooting…
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Akeredolu and Katsina’s AK-47 trainees By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 26 September, 2022 In Lawuyi Ogunniran’s Yoruba play, Ààrẹ-àgò Aríkúyẹrí, we see how a happy polygamous family is ruined…
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The last dance at UNGA By FEMI ADESINA
“This is the last that we shall dance together,” Wole Soyinka wrote in Kongi’s Harvest. And that was what President…
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Revenge of the Nigerian Youths and rise and rise of the Obidients By Achike Chude
Suddenly they have become afraid of them after calling them “lazy Nigerian youths”. Just when we were in despair that…
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Do campaigns have to be bloody to win? By Azu Ishiekwene
If this were a compulsory exam question, a number of politicians would simply answer: it depends. On what? On what…
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Lest NANS protests become another #ENDSARS By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 University students under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) have begun to…
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Like The Queen, Like Zik Of Africa By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
I am yet to learn Queen’s English and now they have changed to King’s English. The Queen is dead; long…
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I stand with Buhari By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 19 September 2022 The story you are about to read was published by the Nigerian Tribune 38 years ago.…
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Mystery of crude oil theft By Dakuku Peterside .
Autolycus in Ancient Greek mythology achieved fame and notoriety for being a successful robber and trickster whom no one could…
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Why is the North always coming in late? By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The news media were awash last week that the North’s governors and traditional rulers have come…
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