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Addressing decline of reading culture in Nigeria

Nigeria has been rated by the World Culture Score Index as one of the countries in the world with the lowest…

Ita Faji episode and imperative blood donation

By Tayo Ogunbiyi Recent tragic incidence of building collapse at Ita Faji, Lagos Island, has once again brought to fore…

INEC and the Inconclusive polls palaver

By Carl Umegboro SECTION 179(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended provides, “A candidate…
Niger Republic Head of State, Brigadier-General Abdourahmane Tchiani, on Christmas night, 25 December, 2024, accused Nigeria of conspiring with France to destabilise his country. F

Lebanon: What Hawkish Pompeo Did Not Know

By Owei Lakemfa When Pompeo and his American bosses asked Lebanon to eliminate the Hezbollah, they were essentially calling for…

Kano Re-run Election: A Morbid Threat To Representative Democracy

By Ali Sabo Politics as they say, especially in Africa, is sometimes a game of betrayal, destruction of lives and…
Massive PVC collection in Ondo: 55,859 cards distributed in record-breaking five-day period

The Burden of Staggered Elections

By Eric Teniola If we add what INEC has been allocated since 1999 to conduct the six elections held so…

The reason why I had to stand as surety for Dr. Ngozi Olejeme

Towards the end of 2017, a colleague of mine based in Abuja called and briefed me of an Efcc matter…

Dapo Abiodun: A unifying factor in Ogun politics

As the race to who succeed Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State was gathering momentum sometimes in 2018, the names…

Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019): Anambra’s gift to the world of Art

It is with the deepest grief that the Anambra State Government received the news of the untimely passing away of…

Pius Adesanmi: A Tribute and A Debt

By Moses E. Ochonu I learnt so much from reading Pius’s work. I learnt from our conversations, and I learnt…
INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu

Lessons From The Last General Elections

By Uddin Ifeanyi One of the many unsavoury conclusions from the last general elections describes how little is the progress…

Nigeria 2019 Governorship Election: Appraising The Verdict

By Omoshola Deji Election in Nigeria is a battle of fists rather than a game of wits. The nation has…

Lagos and the regulation of Private Schools

The involvement of young school children in the recent ‘Ita Faji’ building collapse has understandably elicited widespread public comments in…

Karma and the Parable of ‘Filadefia’

By Louis Odion …nonetheless, it is impossible to deny the shadow of Karma now engulfing Okorocha. Some eight years ago,…

Nigeria 2019: Eshu Laalu As Polling Agent

By Reuben Abati Olawale Folorunso and Bode Sowunmi who were with me and who had been listening to the argument…

Pius Adesanmi: The Human Oxymoron Politicians Must Learn From

By Banji Ojewale Let Nigeria’s politicians learn from Pius Adesanmi that what we need from them isn’t their Methuselah’s life…
Niger Republic Head of State, Brigadier-General Abdourahmane Tchiani, on Christmas night, 25 December, 2024, accused Nigeria of conspiring with France to destabilise his country. F

Ethiopian Airline Flight ET 302: When Stars Went Down At Sunrise

By Owei Lakemfa This tragedy is global and the issue now is not who to blame, but to understand why…

Right of reply to Pendulum Open Letter to the VP

One could have easily made up his mind not to read or respond to anything you wrote after seeing the…

Countdown to celebration of the Class of ’94

On or before Friday, April 26, 2019, the presidential jet of George Weah will depart from Monrovia, Liberia and touch…
Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna state: says no negotiation with bandits

El-Rufai’s re-election: Kaduna women demands 40% representation in cabinet

Some women in Kaduna metropolis have appealed to Gov. Nasir El-Rufai and his Deputy, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, to give women…

Importance of the Nigeria HIV/AIDS indicator and Impact-Assessment Survey (NAIIS)

What the survey is about The Nigeria HIV/AIDS indicator and Impact-Assessment Survey (NAIIS) was conducted in order to measure the…

For Pius Adesanmi, for Nigeria!

By Chido Onumah Pius Adesanmi, Carleton University’s Professor of literature and African studies who died in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight…

How to Make Nigeria Better – Lekan Are

Nigeria’s foremost agronomist, civil/public servant, philanthropist, Dr Lalekan Ayokunnu Are, OON, in a two and half hours chat with GBENRO…

Next level agenda: Open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari

By Binzak Azeez Dear Mr. President, I write this open letter with a deep sense of patriotic citizen of Nigeria…

Common Sense Politics

By Oluwagbenga Oyebanji Hyper partisanship in politics undermines the development of democracy. Election campaign funding in the third world countries…
Court stops APC ,18 other political parties from disrupting or frustrating the impending local government election in Kano State.

For Those Irritated By Nigeria’s Many Political Parties

By ‘Tope Fasua …I will urge Nigerians to get rid of our miracle mentality. New parties have only recently come…

Lagos APC: Winning Over Igbo Voters With Carrots and Not Sticks

By Ayodele Adio The point is that PDP is not necessarily a party for or of the Igbos, it just…

Lagos: Agbaje and the danger of ethnic card

Both I have known for over a decade. Having reported national politics in my close to thirty-year career in journalism…
Ayo Akinyelure

Ondo election: Now that the people have spoken

If there is anything the results of the Ondo central senatorial district election depict, it is the power of the…

How the 2019 presidential election in Nigeria was massively rigged

Femi Aribisala In the 2015 presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari of the APC was awarded 15,424,921 votes by Attahiru Jega’s INEC;…
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