Opinion
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The warnings from Sanusi and Danjuma By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 24 October, 2022 The Washington Post of May 29, 1979 reported an exchange between President Idi Amin Dada of…
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Security: Counting our blessings By FEMI ADESINA
If you spend your life expecting a storm, then you may never enjoy showers of blessings. Each time it rains,…
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A professor’s pay-slip and lessons from ASUU strike By Azu Ishiekwene
After eight months’ strike, one of the longest in the country’s history, university teachers finally returned, at gunpoint, to the…
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Ekwueme: The democrat who gave Abacha Red Card By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The soft, gentlemanly features of Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme belie the heart of steel inside the late first ever Vice-President…
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Peter Obi and his enemies By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 17 October, 2022 Peter Obi’s enemies are very clever and audacious. They are determined to ruin him and the…
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Flood, passivity, and a ruined future By Dakuku Peterside
This year, 2022, the floods seem to have united different parts of the globe. The World Bank report estimates that…
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OON Award: Come and see me dey buga … By Femi Adesina
The news came like a bolt from the blue. I had been slated to receive National Honours Award in the…
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Pathetic stories washed up by floods By Azu Ishiekwene
Back in the day, weather forecasts were a joke. And I mean literally. The weather forecast segment which used to…
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Nigerian judges and ASUU By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 10 October, 2022 While standing before a judge, any judge, you are a ‘petty man’ even if you are…
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Nigeria decides 2023: Campaign promises and the issue of trust By Dakuku Peterside
Most societies do not trust their politicians, so it is not an anomaly peculiar to Nigeria. Whether it is an…
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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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