Opinion
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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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2023: The familiar as Unknown (3) By Dakuku Peterside
We started this series penultimate week with permutations regarding the conventions and congresses of Nigeria’s two major political parties –…
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PDP: Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Embattled Uche Secondus was elected the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee chairman after a…
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OUR TOKYO BLUES By MARTIN ONYEIKE
From a Nigerian perspective, the 32nd edition of the most glamorous sports event held in Tokyo, Japan, can best be…
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The new Change By Martins Onyeike
Despite the enormous potentials of Nigeria as a nation, the pungent truth is that the current dynamics won’t be altered…
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Erectile Dysfunction: In limbo of sexlesss marriage By Michael West
August 6, 2021 Only recently, it dawned on me that not a few married women are in limbo of hopeless…
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See how they’re being sent to God to answer for their crimes By FEMI ADESINA
It amazes, even confounds, to hear some people say President Muhammadu Buhari should go after Boko Haram terrorists and bandits…
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Leadership and followership: The conjoined twins by Martins Onyeike
The popular Maxim that “a fish rots from the head down” is a metaphor for leadership ineptitude but due to…
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Insecurity in Enugu: DAAs to the Rescue! By M.O. ENE
DAAs? Put a stone on it. The main meat is insecurity in Enugu State. For obvious reasons, border communities are…
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Kyari and his hushpuppy By Lasisi Olagunju
The mountain top is a great place to be, but it is very slippery. History is full of cases of…
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Game-changer, Obinna Uzoh, envisions new Anambra
Ahead of the November 6, 2021 governorship election, Dr. Obinna Chukwudum Uzoh, flag-bearer of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has…
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Bereaved Nigerians and deceitful mourners in power By Martins Onyeike
In less than six agonising years, Nigerians have looked on with shock and utter disgust as the Muhammadu Buhari-led government…
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