Opinion
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They write about Valentine Ozigbo By Valentine Obienyem
The first time I took notice of Mr. Val Ozigbo was at Owerri Airport. After our flight landed, he joined…
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Rising gas prices, crisis in the making By Dakuku Peterside
Nigerians are facing hydra-headed challenges on all fronts: debilitating insecurity, extreme poverty, hyperinflation, high cost of food and essential consumables,…
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Nigeria unity – Myth, mirage or reality?! By PROFESSOR ECHEFUNA’ R. G. ONYEBEADI
The aims and objectives of United people of Nigeria Initiative are quite laudable and very good dream that any well…
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Great Ife: Olorode got it all wrong – 2 By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The unfortunate death of Miss Omowumi Aisha Adesina, a Part Four student of Foreign Languages at…
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Ozigbo, Anambra and tomorrow By Oseloka H. Obaze
Often, while the past is fraught with bleak history, the future is poignant with imponderables. That cliché fits well into…
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Tiwa Savage in the Heat, Breeze of Sex Scandal By Michael West
October 29, 2021 Let me start by confessing that I am a fan and admirer of Tiwa Savage. I appreciate…
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Buba Marwa gives them bloody nose By FEMI ADESINA By FEMI ADESINA
My first intervention some months back on the war against hard drugs use in the country was under the headline…
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APC, PDP congresses: Matters arising By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 If morning shows the day, then, the penultimate week’s congresses of the two leading political parties,…
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Youth power: Ballot vs Bullet By Martins Onyeike
Permit me to start this piece with a quote by popular American architect, author and designer, Richard Buckminster Fuller which…
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Gunmen at Oyo prison By Lasisi Olagunju
I read Camara Laye’s ‘A Dream of Africa‘ in secondary school. I still see the sky-high gate of his walled…
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Jega, the Electoral Act and 2023 By Dakuku Peterside
Recently Prof Attahiru Jega, former INEC chairman, shared his thoughts on the amended electoral Act that is yet to be…
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Nigeria’s Budget 2022: Nice try, but …. OUTSIDE THE BOX BY ALEX OTTI
Email:alex.otti@thisdaylive.com “It is not enough to be up to date; you have to be up to tomorrow” David Ben-Gurion, Israeli…
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The University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) hostels’ disaster By EUCLID AGUNWA.
Issues surrounding the poor state, abject neglect and dilapidation of students hostels at the nation’s premier indigenous university, the University…
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Great Ife: Olorode got it all wrong – 1 By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Last week I published Prof. Omotoye Olorode’s somewhat of a rejoinder to two of my columns…
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Abubakar Malami has crossed the Red Line By Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia
In October 2020, young people across Nigeria took to the streets calling for disbanding an abusive police unit known as…
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ENDSARS: The limitation of dictatorship By Bola Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without…
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Inside the Pandora Box By Dakuku Peterside
Exposing secrets in the public interest is gradually gaining public acceptance and appreciation. It is also a testament to how…
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The rare Admiral: A tribute to Godwin Ndubuisi Kanu (1943-2021)
Godwin Ndubuisi Kanu By Tatalo Alamu on October 17, 2021 To the iconic Lagos Airport Hotel’s Banquet Hall this past Tuesday to…
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Congresses of gun and godfathers By Lasisi Olagunju
Monday, 18 October, 2021) Today’s party politics and adultery have same rule of engagement: there is no commitment to fidelity…
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That peace may return to Great Ife: A rejoinder By Bolanle Bolawole (Prof. Omotoye Olorode)
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The “rejoinder” you are about to read, titled “Deepening neglect of public-funded education in Nigeria: OAU…
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2023: A case for a Nigerian President of South East extraction By Professor Echefuna’ R. G. ONYEBEADI
At Independence in 1960, the country Nigeria rested on a tripod of East, West and North. By 1963, the tripod…
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The essential Buhari: VP Osinbajo got it! By FEMI ADESINA
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is an honest man. Whatever he tells you, please take it serious. You can even take…
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Udom, Akpabio and the Uyo-Ikot Ekpene Road By Udo Silas
Now let me be clear. The reason for this piece is two-fold. Firstly, to call out Udom Emmanuel for the…
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A critique of Hakeem Baba-Ahmed’s ‘rejoinder’ By Lasisi Olagunju
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last week has a very interesting definition of honour.…
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Babandede: Re-imagining and Remaking Immigration By Dakuku Peterside
The public sector in Nigeria is not a hopeless case, as we are sometimes all made to believe. It may…
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