Tag: opinion
Between Civil Advocacy, The Government And Corporate Organizations
By Chidozie Chukwuemeka Dividends refer to the portion of profit stakeholders (shareholders) get from an enterprise for their stakes (shares)…
APC Governors: The Hope Of A New Nigeria
By Joe Igbokwe Every nation has its own heroes and villains, cerebral and non cerebral, strong and the weak, educated…
Immigration To Canada: Some Useful Information
By Johnson Babalola There are processes available to immigrate to Canada. Individuals must know about these processes in order to…
Between Man And Beast
By Ademola Adegbamigbe I was an undergraduate visiting Lagos in the 1980s when I experienced my first culture shock. That…
Al-Mustapha Should Shut Up
By Ola Balogun In general, most citizens of Nigeria are peace-loving and law-abiding. Although we actually know better, for the…
Nigerian Undergrads, The Saddest People On Earth
By Boris C. Nwachukwu Recent reports have it that Nigerians are the saddest people on earth. Practically, if you doubt…
Igbo In Lagos State: My Experience
By Adeseye Ogunlewe Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik,…
Women As Change Agents In An Emerging World
By Ijeoma Ogbonna As the impact of the worst global economic crisis is being felt the world over, one of…
What Is Wrong With The Ijaw Ethnic Group?
By Sabella Abidde Several decades before what eventually came to be known as Nigeria emerged in 1914, the Niger Delta…
Let’s Immortalise Yar’Adua
By Odunayo Joseph Many readers would wonder what the topic of this write up is all about and what to…
Nigeria Is Negotiable: A Narrative Of Nigeria’s Leadership Crisis
By Godwin Onyeacholem A new and provocative book titled “Nigeria Is Negotiable” has blamed Nigeria’s leaders for the country’s woes.…
Femi Fani-Kayode’s Tangled Web (Part 2)
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema Apart from Adewale Ademoyega, there were other Yoruba military officers who willingly gave their best for…
Time To Negotiate Nigeria
By Chido Onumah I borrowed the title of this piece from my new book, ‘Nigeria is Negotiable’, which is due…
Opinion: Arise o Nigerians! We need some ‘shined thinking’
RAHEEM WASIU MAYOWA As an individual, whose life fails to change for better even, upon accorded every necessary opportunity, his…
Femi Fani-Kayode’s Tangled Web (Part 1)
By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema Nearly fifteen years ago, when I was an undergraduate student of History, my project supervisor made…
Youth Migration And Implication
By Tosin Ajiboye Monday 12 August was this year’s International Youth Day, and the theme was: Youth Migration and Implication…
Is Jonathan Fighting Against Nigeria’s 12 Giant Evils?
By Tony Eluemunor I have written in the past that “Perhaps, never in history did a people wait for so…
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway And The Churches
By Joe Igbokwe An urgent pressing matter in my home town, Nnewi in Anambra State compelled me to travel on…
Waiting For Africa To Emerge
By Adebayo Lamikanra Ebenezer Obadare is never likely to forget the first time we sat down to hold an intellectual…
Kudos To CBN Gov On Issuance Of Dud Cheques
By Odunayo Joseph Whenever the history of the banking industry in Nigeria is written in future, the tenure of the…
Lagbaja Responds To Okey Ndibe On ‘Mumudom’
By Lágbájá Dear Okey Ndibe, Thank you for sounding the alarm in a way that should make us reflect deeper.…
Cannon Fodder
By Ademola Adegbamigbe As a reporter with Tempo in the early 1990s, during the military era (may Nigeria never experience…
Child Marriage And Nigeria’s Priority Agenda For Children
By Rasak Musbau Child marriage is a global scourge. Today, more than 67 million women from ages 20-24 were married…
How Asari-Dokubo Became A Big Man
By Ebenezer Obadare A while ago, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo’s visceral defence of the Jonathan regime against all real and perceived enemies…
Northern Leaders: Face Education, Not Presidency
By Ben Nanaghan The North has ab-initio emerged as Nigeria’s political power house, as a numero uno, as the nation’s…
A Case For “True” Federalism
By Chido Onumah No topic has generated as much interest in the ongoing bogus constitution amendment process as the issue…
Respite For Uniabuja
By Tayo Demola The University of Abuja, established on January 1st, 1988 and enviably located in the Federal Capital Territory…
Freedom Of Information Act Put To The Test
By Adepetun Caxton-Martins Agbor & Segun In 2011 Nigeria passed the Freedom of Information Act, which seeks to guarantee citizens’…
Opeyemi Bamidele’s Selective Amnesia
By Abiola Olufemi In a democratic dispensation, anyone has a right to aspire to any political office insofar as he…
Ahmed Sani Yerima: The Profile of Unrepentant Paedophile
By Alaba Abdulrazak Ahmed Sani Yerima, the former Governor of Zamfara State is indeed a man who derives joy in…