The Barbarians at Edo Gate By Louis Odion
It was typical of punctilious Godwin Obaseki to assume that mere appeal to reason – this pious invocation of the spirit of good neighborliness – would be enough to rein in the Barbarians arriving Edo’s […]
OPINION & INSPIRATION
OPINION: #NotTooYoungToRun: Why the Nigerian Youth are not yet ready for leadership By Chinedu George Nnawetanma
The 2019 Nigerian general election is less than a year away and preparations are predictably in top gear for the country’s fifth democratic transition since its return to civilian leadership in 1999. The atmosphere is […]
Soyinka and Nigeria’s dinner with the Devil By Reuben Abati
Professor Wole Soyinka was keynote speaker at the maiden annual lecture of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism held in Lagos on March 15. Topic: “Rebuilding Trust in a Divided Nigeria: Can Nigeria […]
The Tragedy of Lagos By Pius Adesanmi
Lagos state has the most opaque finances in Nigeria because she has been run since 1999 by cosmopolitan minds who need a progressive veneer for crude and conspicuous consumption. Other personal slave plantations such as […]
OPINION: Lagos State And The Politics Of Taxation By Reuben Abati
The government of Lagos state seems to be currently in the eye of the storm over its introduction of a law, a property tax as it were, known as the Land Use Charge Act of […]
“The madness of Sheik Gero Argungu and the devil in Yemi Osinbajo” – By Femi Fani-Kayode
“My brethren the Infidels in this country are pointing their fingers to our faces we also should do the same. After the message I gave in Rijau Niger state and presently am in Kontagora the […]
OPINION: For the Niger Delta, 13 Percent Is Not Enough By Saatah Nubari @saatah
The 13 percent derivation as is currently practiced is not acceptable and should not be allowed to last any longer. The Niger Delta people will either be allowed to harness their natural resources—taking 87 percent […]
Let us call Failure by its Proper Name – Chude Jideonwo
Something is happening across the country that worries me deeply – young people in business are failing across the country. It isn’t worrying because it is strange (businesses – including multi-billion-dollar investments have been failing […]
Did Patience Jonathan do money ritual?
Is Nigeria accursed? I can’t say no. But I’m sure Nigeria is sick. Nigeria is empty like a vase without flowers. Some retrogressive forces won’t just stop doing a number on her. She is not […]
OPINION: Before the rest of Africa leaves us behind By @DeleMomodu
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, With our own feathers, not by others’ hands. Are we […]
OPINION: President Buhari, how did Dapchi happen? By Azu Ishiekwene
CNN anchor, Isha Sesay, is right about what she said on her Twitter handle. The kidnap of the 110 girls of Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, is not a national disaster as President Muhammadu […]
OPINION: Kogi at a Glance By Isah yakubu ogwu
I know, some of you with murky eyes will never see the wrong happening in kogi. A land connecting many states that ought to be hub of commerce, an interjection between archival history of […]
Ladies & Gentlemen, Please Rise Up to Recognize the Presence of Thieves By Pius Adesanmi
That Nigerian-Canadian civil servant, Nellie Mayshak, spent years working for the government of Ontario. Not one accusation of stealing and corruption. Then she goes back home to work in Nigeria and steals from Nigerian pensioners […]
Atiku: The Odds and Hurdles By Ariyo-Dare Atoye
Nigeria is in a delicate state: our political survival beyond 2019 now requires a constellation of forces in support of a more prudent option, which must be made by putting a lot of things into […]
“The Wailing of Remi Tinubu” By Modiu Olaguro
“For what Ricardo foresaw was the end of a theory of society in which everyone moved together up the escalator of progress. Unlike Smith, Ricardo saw that the escalator worked with different effects on different […]
“If I were Buhari’s son, I’ll advise him not to seek for re-election” – IBB spokesman, Afegbua
Kassim Afegbua, spokesman for Ibrahim Babangida, says he would advise President Muhammadu Buhari not to run for second term if he were his son. In an interview with Vanguard, Afegbua said former president Olusegun Obasanjo […]
OPINION: Buhari and the parable of ‘king’ elephant By Niran Adedokun
So, former Governor Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa State thinks former President Olusegun Obasanjo should be in jail for allegedly inducing legislators towards his reportedly 2007 third term bid? Abdullahi, who suggests that former Military President […]
The Fulanisation of Nigeria and the Perfidy of the British (PART 2) By Femi Fani-Kayode
Perhaps the most insightful and concise contribution that I have read about the history of the Fulani and their inordinate ambition and insatiable thirst for domination and conquest was provided by Mr. Gbonkas Ebiri. His […]