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Jonathan, Suspend Withdrawal Of Fuel Subsidy For Now

Despite President Goodluck Jonathan’s plea to organised labour and the civil society coalition not to embark on the ongoing strike,…

Re: Abati’s Article On Fuel Subsidy

Just three years ago, Dr. Reuben Abati, now Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, was so incensed…

Public Opinion Under Attack —Isaac Asabor

In his book, Mass Communication: Theory and Practice, Ifedayo Daramola defined Public Opinion as “the consensus or aggregate views held…

Too Little, Too Late

On Saturday 7 January, President Goodluck Jonathan hastily offered some concessions to stave off the planned nationwide mass action by…

Wole Soyinka: Back To The Trenches, Predictably!

  Rarely has government alienation from the people it is meant to serve been so pronounced as demonstrated in the…

LET NOT THIS FIRE SPREAD!!! An Appeal By Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and JP Clark

The fears we have all secretly nursed are coming to realisation. The nightmare we have hugged to our individual breasts,…

Analysis: President Jonathan Cuts a Pathetic Figure

Bayo Onanuga President Jonathan’s handlers did him a disservice Saturday night when he delivered another address to Nigerians on his…

Show Gratitude

There is no denying the fact some relationships are more challenging than others. To some people, as I mention the…

Of Biblical Jonathan And Boko Haram —Isaac Asabor

As a Christian, the war-like situation which the belligerent members of the infamous Boko Haram sect has created in our…

Global Terror: Potential Flashpoints In 2012 —Frank Gardner

With much of the Middle East in flux, suspicions intensifying over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a deepening political crisis in Pakistan,…

Disaster In The Niger Delta

As Nigerians grapple with the problems of Boko Haram, fuel subsidy removal and galloping inflation, another national disaster is happening…

Will There Be Potable Water For Nigerians? —Olufemi Oludolapo Ogundipe

Despite being blessed with water from the numerous rivers criss-crossing its massive land mass, a tad less than 924,000 square…

Breaking Goodluck’s Gridlock —Kehinde Bamigbetan

It is no longer in doubt that President Jonathan Goodluck has by action and inaction brought Nigeria to an avoidable…

Police Should Stop Attacking Protesters

As expected, Nigerians have risen in unison to condemn the withdrawal of subsidy on petrol, announced by the Petroleum Products…

News Analysis: Nigeria’s President Jonathan rides on Tiger’s tail

Bayo Onanuga President Jonathan of Nigeria must have made his portraiture go back to the canvas. Portrayed often as a…

Reflections On Religious Crisis —isaac asabor

There is no denying the fact that the history of religion is as old as man himself. Even when man…

Is Democracy Not For The People? —Osuolale Alalade

Nigeria suffers from institutional amnesia. The more cynical would affirm that our country has no national memory at all. This…

Now Our Suffering Begins

The sudden removal of the subsidy on premium motor spirit, also known as petrol, by the Petroleum Product Pricing and…

Nigerian Bombs: Boko Haram’s Senseless Mission

Bayo Onanuga It was a triumph that was short-lived and spurious. After three days of intensive and repressive campaign against…

Love Meets Hardship

Thinking of hard times is absolutely the last thing on the mind of anyone planning to get married. This does…

The Bestiality In The Caucasian Race, Called Human Rights —Lasisi Ajunwon

We learnt recently that the USA Senate has passed a bill to allow human beings to copulate with horse. O…

As The Battle Line Is Drawn On Fuel Subsidy —Peter Claver Oparah

Any visitor to Nigeria, observing the raging noisy altercation about the removal of the so-called subsidy on petroleum products would…

Security Agencies Can Do More

The admission by the National Security Adviser, NSA, General Andrew Azazi, that it was absolutely difficult to man every point…

Boko Haram And The Christmas Day Bombings

Once again, members of the Islamic fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram, have proved to us all that they are still as…

Is Democracy Not For The People? —Isaac Asabor

Democracy, as widely defined, is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. No doubt, the…

Christmas Bombings: A Nation Courting Death —okey ndibe

Last Sunday, Nigeria made another bloody bid for global infamy as bombs detonated in churches in Abuja and elsewhere in…

An Alternative To Fuel Subsidy

Earlier in the week, the federal government released a document on how it intends to invest the proceeds from the…

Ruling Nigeria From The Clouds

By Bayo Onanuga One thinks that if President Jonathan really wants to promote a transformation agenda for our accursed nation,…

Imperative For Values-Based Leadership In Nigeria —Arinze Uchechukwu Chris

The recently released Mo Ibrahim African Governance Index report for year 2011 which ranked Nigeria at position 41 out of…

Bishop Oyedepo’s Slap Offering For Jesus —Adepoju paul olusegun

I finally got to see the widely circulating Winners Chapel’s slaps giving starring the presiding bishop and a teenager. The…
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