By Emeka Alex Duru There are people you judge from a distance and run into wrong…
Category: Opinions/Columnists
Who is afraid of Peter Obi?
By Emeka Alex Duru Even without the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officially lifting the lids…
President Tinubu and Ndigbo
By Uche Nworah, Ph.D. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s one-day state visit to Imo State on Tuesday,…
Air Peace: Beyond the Dollar, Naira threshold
By Emeka Alex Duru You may not be wrong in situating Nigeria’s leading airline, Air Peace…
Time to try State Police
By Emeka Alex Duru Few topics have perhaps, generated debates in recent time as the need…
TRIBUTE – Senator Tony Nwoye: Celebrating a man of courage and selfless leadership
By Hon. Afam Victor Ogene As I reflect on the remarkable journey of my dear friend…
Let peace return in Southeast
By Emeka Alex Duru Certain experiences refuse to go off the mind. Try as much as…
Jelili Kayode Amusan: The gentleman industrialist bringing people and power together in Ogun
By Faith Adedayo In the ever-evolving political landscape of Ogun State, a familiar name resonates with…
Before ASUU embarks on another avoidable strike
By Emeka Alex Duru Unless reasons prevail and positive measures taken by the federal government to…
OPINION – Vivian Adaora Okoye: Unlocking the drama in womanhood
By James Irabor For many women, pain is carried in silence. When life hurts, the instinct…
Justice for Anambra NYSC member, Jennifer Elohor
By Emeka Alex Duru The outrage that has trailed the assault on a female National Youth…
OPINION: Qualitative education, core of Amusan’s agenda for Ogun State
By Bola Adebowale Hon. Jelili Kayode Amusan, a two-term former member of the House of Representatives…
OPINION – Continuous Voter Registration: Can Nigerians trust INEC this time?
By Emeka Alex Duru The announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the commencement…
OPINION: Nigerian cultures that poverty has bred
By Farooq Kperogi My children throw away Vaseline containers while there’s still enough jelly clinging to…
OPINION: Lagos is playing with fire — and Tinubu must put it out
By Babafemi Ojudu A troubling trend is unfolding in Lagos State. In the aftermath of the…
Akpabio-Natasha debacle: Time to end this shame
By Emeka Alex Duru Those that snigger that Nigeria’s politics is never short of drama, may…
OPINION: Apology to Aisha Buhari
By Farooq Kperogi Although I absolutely should have foreseen it, I honestly didn’t anticipate the profoundly…
Buhari’s shroud of many colours
By Emeka Alex Duru In life, President Muhammadu Buhari represented different things to many people. At…
Charting a new security agenda for Abia State
By Emeka Nwosu, PhD. On Thursday in Umuahia, the Governor of Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti…
ADC must learn a lesson from Buhari and Tinubu of APC
By Moses Okorie It is a known fact that the acronym ADC is not too familiar…
Peter Obi’s northern alignment and the coalition to liberate Nigeria
This is not merely about political survival or opportunistic coalitions. It is about restoring the soul…
Kenneth Okonkwo and his bitter politics
Many of the challenges the Labour Party currently faces stem from the influx of opportunists –…
Maryam Abacha’s curious reinvention of Abacha loot
Loyalists and beneficiaries of Sani Abacha’s dictatorship control Nigeria’s present, and they are trying to exploit…
Before Nigeria drifts to one-party state
Tinubu represents the fears by Harvard University political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, on how…
A covenant of purpose: Governor Umo Eno’s strategic realignment
Governor Umo Eno, calm and resolute, stood beneath a banner of unity and addressed his people…
OPINION: Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu and the fish god
By Festus Adedayo As Ngugi wa Thiong’o says in his Wizard of the Crow, (2007) ire…
2027: Why the opposition coalition must not fail
Nigerians have literally passed through hell fire. With rising incidences of insecurity in virtually all parts…
OPINION: End weaponised governance
By Oseloka H. Obaze “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” is a cliché which might…