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Before You Judge Strauss-Kahn’s Accuser, Stand in Her Shoes

Revelation about the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault suggest that she embellished claims of abuse to…

Ghana Award: A Tribute To Tinubu’s Continental Fame And Glory

I was in Ghana recently in that illustrious country of the Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, the great Ghanian leader and foremost…

Nigeria’s Oil & Gas – PIB Model And Strategy

Until the PIB (Petroleum Industry Bill) is unanimously passed in both houses of the National Assembly, Nigeria’s oil and gas…

Between Football, Basketball And Other Sports

Nigeria has once again boxed itself into the hall of shame by pulling out of the 2011 FIBA World Championships…

Nigerian Weddings, Money And Babies

Reports from various parts of southern Nigeria suggest that marriage is losing its lustre among young men. The men are…

The National Shame Called Mile Two-Apapa Expressway

If anybody who wishes to know how deep, unserious and myopic the Federal Government has sunk into in the past…

The Arrest Of Nasir el-Rufai

Last Saturday’s arrest of the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai has brought to the fore…

Curbing The Excesses Of Nigeria’s Security Operatives

Scarcely a month after the deadly clash between soldiers and policemen which led to the death of some policemen at…

2011 Revolution In Imo State Revisited

If what happened in Imo State during the last governorship election is anything to go by, the liberation of Southeast…

Army Or Boko Haram, Who Blinks First?

The Nigerian Army has issued a stern warning to the Boko Haram sect that has been throwing bombs all over…

Love Meets Hardship

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

Governors’ Forum’s Advice On Subsidy Is Treasonable

The illegal association formed by the Nigerian Governors (otherwise known as Governors’ Forum) was in the news last week. They…

Establish An Initelligence Security Outfit And Not State Police

We have a lot of people with better ideas in this country, but the problem is how to translate our…

Time To Face The Electricity Quagmire

Will Nigerians ever have uninterrupted power supply? The question has become a recurring decimal since the mid 1970s when power…

An Evening With Goodluck Jonathan

I was a year older recently. It was a privilege not only to be alive but in a clime like…

Yet Another Season Of Fuel Subsidy Debate

To understand these ceaseless threats of removal of oil subsidy our rulers have found rather very pleasant to harass us,…

Air Travellers Must Be Protected

The embarrassing and unfair treatment Nigerian passengers go through at the country’s airports must be jettisoned. Daily, flights are delayed…

Combating The Threat Of Flooding In Lagos

Flooding is a global phenomenon that has continued to constitute a major threat to cities and indeed nations across the…

Senator Babafemi Ojudu: What Next?

Senator Babafemi Ojodu, an Ekiti-born journalist is, a man I respected much in his quest and doggedness for egalitarian society.…

Nurses And Their Attitude To Patients

A hospital is supposed to be a place of succour; a place where the sick and the wounded expect to…

Owelle Rochas Has Started Well But He Needs To Run

Despite the gloomy picture of the state treasury he inherited, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, the newly minted Governor of Imo State,…

June 23 1993 On My Mind

June 23, 2011, was exactly 18 years after the former disgraced Nigerian dictator annulled the June 12 1993 presidential election…

Open Letter To Tunde Fagbenle On “Bankole And The Pains Of Misplaced Hope”

Before responding to the topic of discussion in your column in Sunday Punch of June, 2011 i.e. “Bankole and the…

Impending Trouble Over Minimum Wage

The organised labour and state governors have been at loggerheads over the payment of the new national minimum wage. While…

Divorce Trap

True love is neither physical nor romantic; it is an acceptance of all, that is, has been, will be and…

Tinubu Versus HID

I write to commend the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the mature manner in…

Osama Bin Laden

President Barack Obama of the United States of America has been a terror to the countries harbouring terrorist. His efforts…

Little Lawal Buhari Shouldn’t Die In Vain

The death of young Lawal Buhari, who fell into a pit latrine in his school has once again brought to…

Jonathan Must Save Aviation Industry Now

The aviation industry in Nigeria is in dire straits and President Jonathan must not allow it to collapse. Over the…

Are Nigeria’s Boko Haram Getting Foreign Backing?

Last week’s bomb attack by Boko Haram in the capital Abuja has raised questions about Nigeria’s ability to defend itself.…
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