Opinion
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Who is dividing the north? By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, September 5, 2022 Speaking at a book launch in Kaduna Thursday last week, Prof Ango Abdullahi, leader of the…
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Oronsaye report and the burden of history By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058. More often than not, government business in Nigeria is akin to monkey business. “The more you…
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Nigeria, and hard choices By Dakuku Peterside
A significant chapter of global history was closed on 30th August 2022. On that day, an equally substantive champion of…
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Wike has no option but to stand with the people By ONWUASOANYA FCC JONES
I have had this kind of love and hate relationship with Governor Wike. However, what I will never deny about…
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Buhari’s footprints from home to Diaspora By FEMI ADESINA
Unless you are the discerning type, listening to public discourse today, you would think the only thing happening in the…
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The fire this time By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The presidency of Nigeria is so highly coveted that even expired players want to grab it “by fire, by force”,…
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Kukah’s Stories and Broken Truths By Azu Ishiekwene
If you haven’t had a good laugh, you have not been with him. And anyone who knows him knows I’m…
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On the vexed issue of petroleum subsidy… By Bola Bolawole (Anthony Obasola Shoderu)
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 For an opposition party that said petroleum subsidy was a scam, since it assumed the reins…
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A nation in chains By Dakuku Peterside
Something remarkable happened last week at the 2022 Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) conference in Lagos. However, social media was awash…
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ASUU president and his union of quacks By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 29 August, 2022 Mother Teresa, the Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun who died a saint, left more than her graceful…
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Nigeria’s slippery political terrain By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 The convergence of social media and civil society organisations as agenda setters, ombudsman and crusaders all…
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Restructure Nigeria? By Professor Echefuna’ R.G Onyebeadi
BEING A PAPER DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR ECHEFUNA’ R.G. ONYEBEADI, AT THE CITIZENS’ SUMMIT FOR NATIONAL INTEGRATION, PEACE AND SECURITY ORGANISED…
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Duro Onabule: A library burns down By FEMI ADESINA
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, says Amadou Hampate Ba, Malian writer, historian, and ethnologist…
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Have the Hustlers Finally Ousted Kenya’s Dynasties? Azu Ishiekwene
One of the ironies of politics is how easily fiction becomes reality, and reality, precedent. Before our eyes, the president-elect…
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As the Federal Government prepares to proscribe ASUU By Achike Chude
And so we are told that the federal government of Muhammadu Buhari, having failed to honour its agreement with ASUU…
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Olúségun Obásanjó’s pounded yam By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 22 August, 2022 Olúségun Obásanjó’s mother told him at the very beginning that if pounded yam is not much,…
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Why we may elect the wrong leaders in 2023 By Dakuku Peterside.
We are in a profound national crisis, notably in the economic and security spheres, and there is no easy way…
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Who is Prof. Victor Emmanuel Osodeke? By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The headline above is not originally mine. Rather, it is the title of an online publication…
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Abia economic prosperity agenda is top priority of Professor Greg Ibe By Chukwuma ShaFT AMARAM (Polemics).
Perspectives on rebooting, retooling industrial potentialities and dynamics of Abia State, but more specifically Aba, is more critical now than…
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NBC revocation of broadcast stations’ licenses is totally unacceptable By Achike Chude
It gets worse for the government that Nigerians went out and voted for in 2019. To say that the government…
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Politicians and the jeopardy of trial by ordeal By Azu Ishiekwene
“I’m going to waste my vote,” a friend told me recently. “And don’t argue with me,” he added. “It’s my…
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Strengthening institutional frameworks for improved women participation in politics
By Grace Yussuf News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) After the just-concluded party primaries, many stakeholders are at loss as…
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Tribute: Biyi Bandele Who Came In From The Back Of Beyond By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
He started out as Biyi Bandele-Thomas, and shocked the literary world with his amazing precocity. He was admitted to my…
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Still on ASUU-FG impasse By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Last week we featured the intervention of the immediate past vice-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University,…
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