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Lateef Jakande and the beauty of a good name

Death, which legendary playwright, Williams Shakespeare describes as a necessary evil, finally caught up with the first civilian Governor of…

Mad Cows and even Madder Narratives

By Wole Soyinka The most distressful aspect of my recent interaction with cows and herders is that it has created…

Impeachment trial: The smoking gun evidence against Donald Trump

The real time response from Donald Trump to the rioters yields smoking gun evidence of his intent to incite the…

Breaking ancestral curses, Pentecostal profiteering and crisis in Christian communities

Pentecostal Christianity is sweeping across parts of Christian Africa, leaving so much wreck and havoc in its wake. Incidentally, very…
The Nigerian Navy (NN) Board has approved the promotion of 55 senior officers to various ranks in the service.

Dissecting Rear Admiral Gambo’s Agenda for Maritime Security

Change presents humanity with a confounding paradox. Whereas change is constant and inevitable, it forebodes a vague sense of uneasiness.

The Priest and the President

Femi Adesina writes on appointment of Rev. Yakubu Pam who ex-President Obasanjo once decribed as “a total idiot" as boss…

Timi of Ede’s significant endorsement of Oyetola

Recently, Governor Gboyega Oyetola of the State of Osun inaugurated the construction work of a juice production company in the…
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State.

N35bn bond: Doubling down on Kwara development

On assumption of office in May 2019, the immediate challenge before Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq was to stabilise Kwara State.
Agbakoba

Agbakoba writes Buhari on how to stabilise Nigeria

Dr Olisa Agbakoba advises President Buhari on how to stabilise Nigeria by employing the political solution of devolution and regional…
Adamu Garba

If the North secedes from Nigeria, the rest of the country will suffer

No single person from the North is afraid of break up of Nigeria. None whatsoever. And I am not sure…

From TRADOC to Service Chief: The story of Irabor, Attahiru

The intriguing military career story of Generals Lucky Irabor and Ibrahim Attahiru, the new Chief of Defence Staff and Chief…

Lagos and the 2021 budget of rekindling hope

Universally, governments, companies, organisations and institutions deploy budgeting to forecast and regulate what they must do to satisfy the people…

No one should be afraid of Jonathan

Former President Jonathan is probably the most selfless person, not just in Nigeria, but in West Africa, and possibly Africa.…

Buhari may be the last president of united Nigeria

President Buhari should jettison his conscious or unconscious bias and demonstrate leadership now, before he goes into history as the…
Sunday Igboho

Igangan, Igboho and the burden of history

Enter Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho! I doff my hat for Igboho! While some so-called war generalissimo of the Yoruba…

 The many sides of J.J. Rawlings: A Tribute

Not even his harshest critics would begrudge Flt. Lt. John Jerry Rawlings - the late Ghanaian President his place in…
Sunday Igboho

Who is after Sunday Igboho’s life?

Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has been in the news for almost two weeks. His…

The national question and the quest for restructuring in Nigeria

  By Chido Onumah Introduction To paraphrase the historian, mathematician, journalist, and public intellectual, Edwin Madunagu, every political history has…
Kidnappers release two siblings abducted on their way back from back school in Igarra, Edo State after payment of N6 million ransom.

Abuja under siege by bandits as DSS, army hunt agitators in South-east

Abuja is under siege. Terror lives here. Citizens are kidnapped every day from their homes but these tragedies escape the…
Atiku Abubakar deletes posts on Deborah’s killing after fanatics threatened his 2023 ambition

Nigeria at risk of becoming a failed state if it doesn’t restructure : Atiku Abubakar

Nigeria needs to be restructured. Just look at Nigeria today. This truth is staring us in our collective faces, writes…

When will GTBank get it right?

The question many customers of one of the high profile commercial banks in Nigeria, the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) are…
Gov. Kayode Fayemi

Facts and figures of Governors’ meeting with Miyetti-Allah (Full communique)

The Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, on Monday met with the leadership of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN),…

Sunday Igboho, Fulani herdsmen and the threat of war: FFK

Is our Army a Nigerian Army or a Fulani Army? Are the Fulani superior to all others? Are they above…
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu

Fulani criminal gangs in Ondo State: Akeredolu will stand firm

Events this past week across the South West Nigeria again pointed to the urgency for a stronger security architecture to…

Buhari now is time to speak to the Fulani youth

It is time for Buhari to take a cue from Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, who met with some Fulani communities in…

A gay man in Biden’s cabinet

By Sola Adeyeye One had always known that sooner or later, the nomination by President Biden of Peter Buttigieg, an…
covid-19

Covid-19 second wave: Social Distancing and the Place of Ecommerce

By Ayomide Oriade “Every health professional in Nigeria is concerned about the second wave and the rate at which the…
President Joe Biden

Why Biden Is Bad News for Buhari But Good for Nigeria

Biden has a sense of history. He remembers Buhari’s broken promises. He remembers the Chibok schoolgirls. The issues of kidnapping,…
President Joe Biden

We must end this uncivil war (Full text of President Biden’s inaugural speech)

We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do…
Benue

All herdsmen are not bandits

Asking all herdsmen who congenitally take to the forest to vacate the forests of Ondo comes off as ethnic targeting.…
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