Tag: TheNEWS/P.M.NEWS
Bagauda Kaltho: The Many Lies of Zakari Biu and Mahdi Shehu
The truth is that this man is a liar. A shameless liar. Last year, Mahdi Shehu was arraigned in court…
Yoruba leaders should forge a synergy –Senator Ayo Fasanmi
Funsho Arogundade Frontline politician and Afenifere chieftain, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, has urged fellow Yoruba leaders to forget their differences and…
Political Thugs And Elections
By Ignatius Adegoke The great body of critical discourse on the politics of the era seems to have little good…
Ango, Please Take Gen. Ihejirika To ICC
By Kanayo Esinulo Somehow, it is interesting and fascinating, to say the least, that each time the conservative fraction of…
Interested Party
By Ademola Adegbamigbe In recent times, apart from the North-East which has remained under the jackboot of the Boko Haram…
Nigeria Does Not Own The Patent To Scam
By Akunna Ejim It has become quite obvious the “thing” to do when trying to describe corruption or the act…
Open Letter To A New Generation
By Funmi Iyanda The thing about age is, it is catching. It’s like a hysterical jester lying in wait for…
A Formidable Brand?
By Ademola Adegbamigbe I read it thrice. If it were to be an original and if it should come under…
Mandela: A Long Walk To The Emancipation Of Man
By Osuolale Alalade The transition of the Madiba on 5 December, 2013 into an icon of the ages ushered in…
Getting It Right
By Ademola Adegbamigbe Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, on Tuesday 12 November 2013, marked his fifth year in office.…
After Unbundling PHCN, What Next?
By Kanayo Esinulo In a piece I did in June 2010 titled ‘Can President Jonathan Fix PHCN?’, I tried to…
Books, Headlines, News, Opinion
Championing The Cause Of African Women
By Kunle Ajibade Let me begin with Chinweizu, the non-conformist pan-African intellectual who wrote The West and the Rest of…
Who Is Afraid Of A National Conference?
By Kanayo Esinulo The drumbeats and soundbites that favour a National Conference are getting louder and clearer. The objective conditions…
Morality And The Afterlife
By Akin Obasa Many Nigerians would remember the iconic social crusader, Tai Solarin, who died 19 years ago. During his…
Headlines, Interview, News, Politics
There Are Armed Robbers In PDP
Dr. Junaid Mohammed, Chairman, House Committee on International Economic Relations and Socialist Bloc in the Second Republic, shares his view…
Cult Of Jesus And The War In Warri
By Osuolale Alalade It is much simpler to see the advent of the Maitatsine and its contemporaneous expression in Boko…
The Politics Of Headcounts In Nigeria
By Kanayo Esinulo What I have done this week is merely to reproduce, word for word, without any editing whatsoever,…
Emergency Proclamation: So Far So Good
By Chris Olukolade Boko Haram, a religious sect which had emerged by taking advantage of democracy–the system of government which…
Dance Of The Penguin
By Ademola Adegbamigbe Any country that wants to be great technologically and economically cannot afford to joke with university education.…
Immortality
By Ademola Adegbamigbe Kenya does not have oil. Tourism is, apart from coffee, its own hydrocarbon. It is quite unfortunate…
The Martyrs
By Sola Adela Now Mustapha is free at last, the public wants to know how and who will compensate the…
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…
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…
Cannon Fodder
By Ademola Adegbamigbe As a reporter with Tempo in the early 1990s, during the military era (may Nigeria never experience…
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…
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…
Obafemi Awolowo: Knowledge, Leadership, Governance
By Olúfémi Táíwò Something significant happened two weeks ago in Ikogosi-Ekiti. A state government, at the suggestion and under the…
A Combatant’s Chronicle Of The Nigeria–Biafra War
By Kunle Ajibade It is quite thoughtful that General Godwin Alabi–Isama has chosen Nelson Mandela’s birthday to present his book,…