Opinion
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Striking the soul of the nation By Dakuku Peterside
Omoni Oboli’s “Wives on Strike” is a blockbuster Nollywood movie where four semi-illiterate market women eagerly protest a child marriage…
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Who is afraid of 86-year-old Akintoye? – 3 By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Many Yoruba activists and responsible citizens are critical of Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho on account…
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Families groan as Hunger, Insecurity and Covid-19 Rage By Michael West
August 27, 2021 This is not the best of times in Nigeria. Many families are in financial mess as the…
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It’s evil, pure and simple By FEMI ADESINA
It is both sad and disheartening to observe the construct that some people try to give certain developments in the…
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Is Africa’s priority a G-20 seat? By Bola Bolawole (Professor Babafemi Badejo)
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 522 5533 I felt the compelling need to allow my friend, Babafemi Badejo, Professor of Political Science/International Relations…
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JAMB and the Oloyede revolution By Kunle Akogun
There is no doubt that since his appointment as the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) five…
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Why we should fear the Nigerian Taliban By Lasisi Olagunju
Some years ago, an editor-friend told me that he was slapped from behind by someone during his first pilgrimage to…
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Post Afghanistan implications for Nigeria By Dakuku Peterside .
In the past week, the unfolding events in Afghanistan have dominated the media space. The seemingly unimaginable happened. The Taliban…
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Who is afraid of 86-year-old Akintoye – 2 By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Prof. Stephen Adebanji (Banji) Akintoye is the President-General of Ilana Omo Oodua. Two reasons accounted for…
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Abia’s too many dramas By Dr Monday O. Ubani
Theodore Orji, former Governor of Abia State was said to have been arrested at Abuja Airport, Thursday, by EFCC over…
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Wife snatching: A Pastor’s moral, ethical infraction
By Michael West August 20, 2021 In what looks like an adultery scandal, the news went viral a couple of…
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PMB: Call him the master finisher By FEMI ADESINA
The country has been agog this week with fallout from the signing of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into…
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Lessons from Kabul By Martins Onyeike
Lately, the local and international media has been awash with the frightening developments in Afghanistan. Albeit, those abreast with the…
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PIA is not a raw deal By ANIEBO NWAMU
My belief in the efficacy of market forces as the cure for voodoo economics remains unshaken. And so I welcome…
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When will medical doctors stop going on strike? By Bola Bolawole (Comrade Issa Aremu (mni))
turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Between doctors who habitually go on strike, with the attendant costs in lives and limbs, to…
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My First Encounter with Ibrahim Mantu By ‘Timi Alaibe
We have been in this season of bad news for too long. When are we getting out of it? When…
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The President is back By Lasisi Olagunju
Twenty-four hours after paying an inter-infirmary visit to his co-Londoner, co-APC founder, comrade and power-sharer, President Muhammadu Buhari came back…
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Siege on political parties By Dakuku Peterside
Reading through the newspapers and social media in the past two weeks, I found myself thinking how nothing much seems…
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Who is afraid of 86-year-old Akintoye? – (1) By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 As an Octogenarian inching towards becoming a Nonagenarian, Professor Stephen Adebanji (Banji) Akintoye (born 1935), should…
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Review of JOY CUT SHORT, BUT DREAMS FULFILLED, Chikere Agbo’s Story of Innocence By Odili Ujubuonu
Chikere A. Agbo’s debut novel Joy Cut Short, But Dreams Fulfilled welcomes you with open arms of innocence. The novel…
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If not infrastructure, then what? By FEMI ADESINA
Former Governor of Anambra State and running mate to Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, flew…
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Welcome, ministry of innovation By ANIEBO NWAMU*
In his sixth year as Nigeria’s minister of science and technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu last Friday announced with glee the…
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I Cry for My Beloved Country Nigeria By DR. AYOKUNLE AKANBI
When renowned author Alan Paton wrote the award winning novel cry my beloved country; it was against the background of…
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Igbo Governors and the Struggle: ‘You can’t stand on my nose and get balance.’ By Gerald Oluchi Ibe
Is there anything new under the sun? What was, usually is. This simply explains the Igbo attitude to governance and…
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Buhari: 658 days to go By Lasisi Olagunju
Six hundred and fifty eight days from today, Nigeria will be free from Muhammadu Buhari and his government. To count…
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