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Uju Anya’s tweet against Queen Elizabeth reveals three key elements

Uju Anya’s tweet against Queen Elizabeth reveals three key elements

Festus Adedayo, a journalist, lawyer and public affairs analyst, writes that Professor Uju Anya’s diatribe against the late Queen Elizabeth…
Kashim Shettima acknowledges cheers from Borno people

Kashim Shettima: The Kanuris fly their flag again

After the Hausas, Yorubas, Igbos and Fulanis, the Kanuris, in terms of population are in the same bracket with the…

About ADVAN President’s desired retention of unfair advantage

In an undisguised dismissive interview with Brand Communicator, an IMC-focused publication, Uwubanwmen described agencies as “just one vendor” out of…
A fight between Obasanjo and Babangida

A fight between Obasanjo and Babangida

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu, journalist, poet and polemicist, narrates how, despite that Ibrahim Babangida dragged Olusegun Obasanjo into power in 1999,…
Governor Abiodun and Amosun

Amosun’s demolition, Abiodun’s compensation in Ogun State

Funmi Branco writes that the Dapo Abiodun government in Ogun State has begun paying compensation to owners of properties demolished…

Gani Fawehinmi, a man of the people

Ayodele Ale, journalist and lawyer who worked with TheNEWS and PMNEWS and now is with an international organisation, writes about…
Funmi Peter-Omale

There’s link between body modifications and mental illness

Cosmetic surgeries and body modifications may give instantaneous uplifting but after a little while, you'll be looking for the next…
Tinubu gallops on Google ranking, Atiku, Obi plummet

Tinubu, Atiku, Obi and campaign funds season

Finally the month is here. September, , according to Festus Adedayo, journalist and lawyer, is Nigeria’s presidential campaign flag-off, preparatory…
Agbado

Agbado as a political identity

Supporters and admirers of Jagaban are now identified by what they choose to snack on. If you share a photo…
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union dies at 91

Gorbachev was a villain

Owei Lakemfa, journalist and labour activist, argues that despite the eulogies poured on the late Soviet leader, Mikhail Sergeyevick Gorbachev,…
Senator Kashim Shettima

Shettima, terrorism, and bigotry: Time to put stale propaganda to rest

When Boko Haram terrorists destroyed churches in Borno, Shettima not only provided funds for the reconstruction of the places of…
Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah

Kukah at 70 combines pastoral, intellectual roles to telling effect

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, lawyer and a teacher, pays tribute to Matthew Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto
Bishop Kukah

Matthew Hassan Kukah at 70: A Tribute

Beyond his public intellectualism and duties as a priest, Bishop Kukah has also been very active within the general community…
Aguiyi-Ironsi

‘How Aguiyi-Ironsi killed regional police in 1966’

Eniola who was writing against the background of vociferous demand for state police against the worsening situation in the country…
ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, expresses concern over high number of first-class graduates being churned out by private universities

Why Nigerian government can’t ban ASUU

Those who are berating ASUU for alleged recalcitrance should advise the Federal Government to accord priorities to the funding of…

Obasanjo comes on a mission in Congo Kinshasa

Obasanjo and Tshisekedi met for about two hours. Immediately Obasanjo came out of the meeting to address the press, my…
Duro Onabule: A library burns down

Duro Onabule: A library burns down

The last time I saw Chief Onabule was on a flight from Lagos to Abuja. Where was he headed? Minna,…
No civil servant was promoted by Gov. Ayade in 7 years – TUC

Ayade, Cross River and the lost paradise

In the midst of all this, Mr. Governor squandered N100 million to purchase the APC presidential form. I wonder what…

Could Wike be the end of Atiku’s sixth run for president?

Jagaban is meeting with Wike somewhere in Europe – this is while Atiku had refused to meet with the Rivers…
Second Niger Bridge,

Second Niger Bridge: Busting the lies, stating the facts

So today, we have the 2nd Niger Bridge finally built and the Onitsha River Port finally activated and concessioned meaning…
Kashim Shettima arrives at the NBA Conference

Kashim Shettima: Dress doesn’t diminish the man

There's a second group, that was out to profit from a negative casting of Kashim Shettima; and that's the opposition.…
Senator Kashim Shettima

Kashim Shettima: The starboy of the NBA show

He was the first to take the podium, which was provided after he had started speaking. He jettisoned a prepared…
Money laundering: Falana sends important message to EFCC

Appeal to Nigerian lawyers to end illegal arrest, detention of citizens

Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, advises members of the Nigerian Bar Association, holding their annual conference in Lagos…
ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, expresses concern over high number of first-class graduates being churned out by private universities

Cruelty to students, poor info management, and partisanship hurting ASUU

That was where I drew the line, and my attitude toward ASUU changed. My sympathies are always and will always…
ASUU-FG in a meeting

Nigerian government not sincere with ASUU

Owei Lakemfa, journalist, labour activist and public affairs analyst writes from argues that there are at least eight contentious issues…
Pat Utomi and Peter Obi

2023, Pat Utomi, Peter Obi and social programs

Dr. Okonta who was until recently Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics, University of Oxford, argues that…
Mixed reactions trail court judgment barring NBC from imposing fines

Why Nigerian government should kill NBC

Festus Adedayo, journalist, lawyer and public affairs analyst, argues that the repressive weapon of the Buhari government against free speech…
ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, expresses concern over high number of first-class graduates being churned out by private universities

ASUU, call off this strike now

It would be compassionate if the government would pay ASUU members for the period they have been on strike, but…
Bola Tinubu

Imperative of a power shift, Tinubu’s Presidency and the degeneration of PDP

Nothing could be more dangerous to our national cohesion than another 8 years of Fulani rule after President Muhammadu Buhari.

As Asiwaju Bola Tinubu visited former President Obasanjo

We recall that during the 2003 elections, Obasanjo unleashed brute force and untoward acts to annex the entire South West…
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