Tag: opinion
Alamieyesiegha And The Travails Of A Diminished People
By Osuolale Alalade It has not come as a surprise that the presidency, through its senior combative and loquacious mouthpiece,…
Early Warning Signals To The Opposition
By Peter Claver Oparah The present altercation over the registration of the All Progressives Congress should alert the opposition in…
Re: 83% Blocks For Northerners: A Monumental Scandal
By Ben Nanaghan On March 6, 2013, the Nigeria Senate in a closed door session debated the salient aspects of…
Bisi Fayemi, The ‘Deborah’ Of Ekiti
By Dimeji Daniels The role of First Lady in the US had been to act as hostess of the White…
Caring For Orphans And Vulnerable Children
By Bilikis Bakare In traditional African society, the word orphan was alien because children who lost one or both parents…
Run, Jonathan… Run For 2015!
By Theophilus Ilevbare The pesky ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan to seek a second term in office was given the…
APC: Things Will Never Be The Same Again!
By Joe Igbokwe Few weeks back I wrote that since the coming of All Progressives Congress, APC, there has been…
My Biafran War Reminiscences
By David Odey After reading Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country and the recent three-part series on the 30-month Nigerian…
Lagos And The Challenge Of Widening The Tax Net
By Rasak Musbau There is evidently an urgent need for a fresh focus on governance and democratization in our troubled…
International Women’s Day And The Gender Agenda
By Funmi Falana International Women’s Day is an annual event held on March 8 every year to celebrate women and…
W/Cup Qualifier: Mixed Reactions Trail Keshi’s List
Mixed reactions have continued to trail the 15-man list released by Coach Stephen Keshi for this month’s 2014 FIFA World…
Obafemi Awolowo: Hero Of Yoruba, Killer Of Biafra, Betrayed By The North
By Obinna Akukwe Obafemi Awolowo is the undisputed hero of the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria whose wartime policy of starvation…
Winding Down History: Religion And Nation, Power And Freedom
By Wole Soyinka Today’s event may yet make a Christian out of me – since, from my admittedly imperfect recollection…
Plea Bargain And The Yakubu Yusuf’s Verdict
By Akido Agenro The conviction by the Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Abubakar Talba of John Yakubu…
Zoning: The Problematic Solution
By John Ayoade Nigeria is an adversarial federation nurtured by multilateral suspicion. The country was created in 1914 in such…
A Close Shave With Nigerian Pirates
By Simon Ateba We were about 20 minutes from the beautiful and clean land of Calabar, capital of Cross River…
2015 Could Be Messy If…
By Kanayo Esinulo I sounded alarmed and gravely disturbed in this column some weeks ago, because I suspect that the…
Transformation Agenda And The Economy
By Socrates Chime In his essay, ‘Social Analysis of the Transformation Agenda of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’, published in the…
Why Chief Tony Anenih Was Made BoT Chairman Of PDP
By Joe Igbokwe Do you know why Chief Tony Anenih was brought in a BoT Chairman of PDP? Do you…
Neglect Of Yoruba Language And The International Mother Language Day
By Adedeji Tarnner Yoruba nation is a blessed race that does not value its sanctity when it comes to our…
My 2100 Momentous Days In Office (2)
By Babatunde Fashola Still speaking of service, our work is not finished and we will continue to improve. You will…
Patience Jonathan As A Metaphor
By Theophilus Ilevbare Nigerians were yet to come to terms with the FCT Minister’s budgetary allocation of N4 billion to…
My 2100 Momentous Days In Office
By Babatunde Fashola On the 18th November 2012, when I presented our activity report from the last 100 days, I…
Who Grasps The Nettle For Jonathan Now?
By Dimeji Daniel I remember that it was exactly 73 days after President Goodluck Jonathan took the reins of power…
Pope Benedict XVI’s Resignation: The Blessing Of Courage
By Olumuyiwa Jimoh “After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths,…
Death And The Vanity Of Life: Tribute To My Departed Colleagues
By Tayo Ogunbiyi February is, perhaps, not the best month to be talking of death being just the second month…
The Risen First Lady
By Chido Onumah I join millions of Nigerians in giving thanks to God for the miraculous survival of the country’s…
Aso Rock Lie Series
By Dimeji Daniels Jonathan in the Bible, the son of King Saul, was a man who pitched his tent with…
US-Niger Drone Base: Matters Arising
By Collins Makinde The United States of America (USA) is continuing to increase the number of drones in Africa which…
2015: Opposition Merger and What Lies Ahead
By Theophilus Ilevbare There is a need to provide a credible alternative for the electorate, a radical change borne out…