Opinion
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Matawalle’s Guns By Azu Ishiekwene
Nigeria is awash with arms – guns, bullets, charms, drugs and local stuff. Not just Nigeria. The entire Sahelian and…
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Barkindo’s final words to me By FEMI ADESINA
Here today, gone tomorrow is a common saying. But with the then outgoing Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting…
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Dealing with the running mate matter By Professor Okechukwu Edward Okeke
Its potential as a threat to national unity became manifest in early 2000, when Senator Arthur Nzeribe moved a motion…
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Yoruba: From restructuring to àwa l’ókàn By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 4 July, 2022 A professor friend who works abroad is home-sick. He recently asked me: “I want to visit…
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Security and the 2023 campaigns By Dakuku Peterside.
Security, economy, and corruption were the most outstanding issues in the 2015 and 2019 elections. Of the triune matters, security…
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IFFs: From Gunboat Diplomacy to Negotiation Table By Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye
Interaction with the global community is the inevitable reality of modern nation states and indeed societies. It is not a…
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Buhari in Portugal: A prophet has no honor only in his country By FEMI ADESINA
When Jesus was on earth, people from different walks of life embraced his message, got saved, healed, delivered from demon…
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She can keep me, for one month By Azu Ishiekwene
Until she asked, I didn’t know it was a problem. Her problem, I mean. When people say whatever gets your…
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This country, Nigeria! By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 “He who must destroy others to succeed must know that destruction waits for him at the…
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Tinubu: Are you the expected messiah or… By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 “And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples,…
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Expensive diesel and the expansive economic crisis By Dakuku Peterside.
Diesel has become a local symbol of the global energy crisis and Nigeria’s expansive economic woes. The astronomical rise in…
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Nigeria’s naked Supreme Court By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 27 June, 2022 When politicians tell big lies and then dare exasperated wailing wailers to go to court, they…
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What do the Ogoni want? – Revisiting Ogoni demands By Fegalo Nsuke
The question of “what the Ogonis want” has been the subject of dialectical debates. I have severally been confronted with…
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Warning shots from Kigali By Femi Adesina
On the sidelines of the 26th edition of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) holding in Kigali, Rwanda, President Muhammadu…
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Naked Supreme Court dance not a bad thing after all By Azu Ishiekwene
When I first read the news in People’s Gazette through a link forwarded to me by a friend, I prayed…
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2023: Between the rock and hard place By: Bola Bolawole
turnport@gmail.com 0807 553 5533 In December 2019, I attended a FICAN (Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria) workshop sponsored by the…
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Sold votes and a dead-duck democracy By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 20 June, 2022 From a lack of horses, we always saddle dogs, or cows, or even the ugly, scaly-backed…
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Owo massacre: We have not heard the last! By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 I am from Owo. I was born and bred there. Readers of my columns must have…
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Buhari’s footprints By Femi Adesina
We are winding down. In about 11 months, the Muhammadu Buhari administration will be done. So we are ticking off…
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Who wins Ekiti governorship polls – II By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 D-Day is here! The Ekiti governorship election is a few days away! Who wins the polls?…
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Peter Obi, Dragons and Muslim-Muslim ticket By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 13 June, 2022 “Confidence is like a dragon; for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.” That…
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Take aways from the presidential nominations By Dakuku Peterside
After a long voyage, all the political parties have concluded their special conventions and primaries, and they now have presidential…
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Suicide: Women and their killer tongues By Michael West
June 10, 2022 Most of the time, I appreciate men that stay married over the years not because they are…
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Knock, knock! Who’s there? By FEMI ADESINA
If you are of my generation, and you have some literary inclination, you would have read the novel by…
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Our next Vice President By Dakuku Peterside
In the race to brace the tape of the presidency in 2023, the most consequential decision as to who would…
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