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Jeddy-Agba: A Governorship Aspirant At 56

By Michael Jegede Godwin Jeddy-Agba, an accomplished administrator and leading aspirant for the 2015 governorship contest on the platform of…

Falconets: Better Luck Next Time

When FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup kicked off on 5 August, 2014 in Canada, nobody gave Super Falconets of Nigeria…

Terror On All Sides

By Richard W. Kropf  In the biblical book of Jeremiah (20:3-4), the prophet tells the commander of the temple guard…

Ogbeni: On His Mandate They Firmly Stood

By Peter Claver Opara Nothing can best demonstrate the danger stalking democracy in the land, with PDP’s desperation to retain…

CCRSP: Creating A New Socio-Political And Economic Lifeline For Cross River

By Jacob Ajom The banquet hall of the Transcorp Hotels Calabar witnessed a different kind of gathering on 13 August,…

The Fall Of Gwoza

The declaration of Gwoza as an Islamic Republic or a caliphate by the Boko Haram sect is yet another evidence…

Treating National Security Issues With Parochial, Selfish Passion

By Mac Durugbo Recently, the national dailies carried on their front pages the arrest of 486 suspected Boko Haram members…

The National Carrier Project

Many aviation analysts and stakeholders have posited that having a national carrier could be to the country’s advantage, if such…

Need To Probe Illegal Issuance Of Nigerian Passports 

By Rashid A. Balogun A rejected tiger cub is doomed. The lawyer might say, why would a tiger reject its…

Enugu Secret Impeachment Trial And Implications For Democracy

By Law Mefor Nigerian Governors have since become absolute rulers. Like ancient monarchs, those in whom all power is vested…

Securing Lagos In These Challenging Times

On Monday, eagle-eyed security agents intercepted a physically-challenged man, allegedly attempting to detonate explosives at the premises of  Centrix Unit…

Tackling Illegal Mining And Dredging In Lagos

By Tayo Ogunbiyi The waterways stretching from Badagry to Epe,  (with a Peninsular in between, a lagoon at the back…

Scoring Winning Goal Through Breastfeeding

By Bilikis Bakare Breastfeeding in practice and application is viewed as a human right issue by several international organisations including…

Ill-Conceived Suspension Of Resident Doctors

Last week’s suspension of at least 16,000 resident doctors across the country by the Federal Government was a hasty and…

How Ebola Crisis Could Be Contained

By Mohammed M. Youssouf Following the death of more than 900 people in West Africa from the worst outbreak of…

Anambra Central And Umeh’s Senatorial Ambition

By Michael Jegede Chief Victor Umeh, an accomplished estate manager and surveyor is the national chairman of All Progressives Grand…

CBN’s Negative Policy

The announcement last week of a planned re-introduction of N65 charge on Automated Teller Machines, ATMs, by the Central Bank…

The Abuja Environment During And After El-Rufai’s Era

By Akinsola Alonge The residents of Abuja were enjoying the sanity, air and perfection being experienced in the city. The…

Aribisala An Enemy Of Democracy

BY IDOWU AJANAKU It is no longer news that the satanic wishes of the ilk of Aribisala for the All…

Other Lessons From Osun

BAMIDELE JOHNSON Certain lessons, presumably, have been learnt from the governorship election in Osun State or the State of Osun…

Chidoka’s Poor Start

Three weeks after he was sworn-in as the Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, the former boss of the Federal Road…

Methodist Church Declares War Against Polygamy

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Methodist Church Nigeria has declared war on leaders and members who are still having more than one…

Behold The Wind Chaser Called Femi Aribisala

By Joe Igbokwe I remember I used this quotation from Dr. Edwin Madunagu when a certain leader from the South…

NIPR’s Strategy For Professionalism, Sustainable Democracy

 By Nduka Uzuakpundu There is a plan being implemented, punctiliously, by the skippers of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations…

Hurdles Before The New Lagos Chief Judge

On Monday, the Lagos State House of Assembly confirmed Justice Olufunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade as the new Chief Judge of Lagos…

Nigeria’s Larger-Than-Life Nobel Laureate Chronicles A Fascinating Life

By Chimamanda Adichie As he turns 80, a look at Wole Soyinka’s unique memoirs, including his latest, ‘You Must Set…

A Clarion Call To Pastor Adeboye

Last weekend motorists plying the Lagos- Ibadan expressway had a harrowing experience around sprawling Redemption Camp on the expressway due…

Boko Haram: Before It Is Too Late

By Raymond Oise-Oghaede Countless advice and strategies have been offered by people from all walks of life to solving the…

At Last, Buhari Attacked By Jonathan’s Men!

By Jonathan Ekene Ifeanyi As I rightly stated in my piece written in response to Alhaji Balarabe Musa, which was…

Undue Militarisation Of Elections

The gross abuse of power and the undue militarisation of the just concluded Osun State governorship election and that of…
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