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The Military Mayhem In Lagos

The mayhem unleashed last Friday in Lagos by the Nigerian military is not only disgusting, but a depressing realisation that…

The beginning of the end of Aribisala’s fiction

DR. Femi Aribisala’s recent article “The beginning of the end of the Bola Tinubu Dynasty” should not have appeared in…

Boko Haram: Britain Must Give More Help To Nigeria

By Gordon Brown It’s not only the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls that need our help, but every girl that the terrorists…

Why Footballers Are No Role Models

By Bamidele Johnson Just in case you have been  hiding under a rock, Luis Suarez has been banned from any…

The Trauma On Apapa-Oshodi Expressway

It is highly worrisome that the hellish gridlock along Apapa-Oshodi expressway, occasioned by the indiscriminate parking of trucks and tankers,…

Suarez And The Limitations Of Talent

By Tayo Ogunbiyi Uruguayan born football whiz kid, Louis Suarez is, no doubt, a talented footballer. Last season, before he…

Boko Haram: Beyond Recruiting Soldiers

Days after the last media chat in which President Goodluck Jonathan told Nigerians that he had ordered a massive recruitment…

A Curious Type Of Transformation At NRC

By Akido Agenro The political leadership in Nigeria has always found it difficult to grapple with the country’s huge population…

Biafra, June 12, Boko Haram And The Future Of Nigeria (1)

By Chido Onumah Nigeria’s celebrated novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is an interviewer’s delight, whether she is talking about Nigeria, novels,…

Forgotten Chibok Girls

Seventy-seven days after close to 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in Chibok by Boko Haram, and many weeks after the Nigerian…

A Testament Of Courage

One of the most inspiring quotes of the great African-American writer, Maya Angelou, who died a few weeks ago, goes…

National Confab And Delegates’ Recalcitrance

Recently, the leadership of the National Conference currently going on in Nigeria decided to take a drastic action against absentee…

Tackling The Threat Of Cyber Crime In Nigeria

A fortnight ago, Mr Adebayo Adelabu, deputy governor, Financial Systems Stability, Central Bank of Nigeria, said 2.4 per cent of…

Curbing Drug Abuse And Illicit Trafficking

By Rasak Musbau Globally,  June 26 of every year is designated the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.…

Fashola And The Audacity Of Courage

By Tayo Ogunbiyi Management thought leader, business entrepreneur, inspirational speaker and Harvard Professor, Dr. John P. Kotter , once submitted…

Checking Corruption And Tardiness In The Judiciary

The victory of Ayo Fayose in the recently concluded election in Ekiti State has again raised the question of his…

On Ekiti Election And Fayose’s Victory

By Michael Jegede I congratulate the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ayo Fayose, on his landslide victory in…

The Imperative Of Tinubu’s Presidency

By Idowu Ajanaku Nigeria’s determined quest for a visionary, patriotic, selfless, committed and courageous democrat, who is fully prepared to…

Understanding The Essence Of Blood Donation

By Sola Ogunmosunle It is a primordial fact that the blood is one of the most important parts of the…

Protecting The Lagos Environment

By Tayo Ogunbiyi Lagos population, according to the United Nations projections, will be 20 million by 2015 making it the…

Fayemi’s Sportsmanship

In a rare show of sportsmanship, Governor Kayode Fayemi on Sunday congratulated Governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, following his Saturday, 21 June…

The gains of APC loss in Ekiti election

Ayo Simpson Ilesanmi I got a call from a childhood friend of mine who is an Ekitiman based in Lagos…

Lessons of Fayose’s victory

By Michael Jegede I congratulate the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ayo Fayose, on his landslide victory in…

All eyes on Ekiti, says Tinubu

By Bola Ahmed Tinubu With today’s election, Ekiti State has become the epicentre of Nigeria’s electoral politics. Here, the major…

Fighting Terrorism With Amnesty

By Theophilus Ilevbare Never mind the barefaced denial from Dr. Reuben Abati, Presidential Spokesman that the Commander-In-Chief, President Goodluck Jonathan,…

Ekiti People Stick To Fayemi, Against The PDP Quislings

By Idowu Ajanaku The recent violent assault on the convoy of Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State precisely on Sunday,…

Time To End ASUP Strike

Almost one year after the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, went on strike to press home their demands for…

How Christians Try To Bully God

BAMIDELE JOHNSON Can God be bullied? The question should be marked “pointless.”. If (as believers in Him claim) God is…

On The March To Aso Rock In 2015

By Bisi Akande It has been a long journey to come this far on this historic occasion – the first…

War Against Terror And Information Management

The military of any nation is mostly heard only where actions in favour of such nation is paramount and in…
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