By Farooq A. Kperogi Anyone who has watched Bola Ahmed Tinubu closely and dispassionately can’t help…
Category: Opinions/Columnists
Nigeria and war of tongues, by Femi Adesina
Our country is at war today on many fronts. Nigeria battles insurgency, terrorism, banditry, kidnappings, armed…
London, our President’s medical haven
By Olukorede Yishau In the last few days, London has been on the minds and lips…
Opinion: David Mark, statesman of peace @ 73
By Paul Mumeh The Senator David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark clan including his household, friends,…
Opinion – 2023: Who’s leading Tinubu to ‘slaughter’?
By Steve Osuji NOT MUCH BETTER THAN BUHARI: What began as a crude joke for…
Otunba Gbenga Daniel: Navigating New Frontier @65
By Adegbenro Adebanjo Otunba Gbenga Daniel, whose sobriquet OGD first caught major public attention in 2001…
2021: Anambra should go south
Oseloka H. Obaze In Nigerian politics, oftentimes expediency trumps morality. Honour is also a scarce commodity.…
Ten unbelievable things about Nigeria
By Simon Kolawole Dissonance. Is that the right word to describe the contradiction between word and…
Parting Your River Jordan
By Pastor Josiah Kehinde “Joshua said to the Israelites, Come near, hear the words of the…
Opinion: Umar’s “Biafran Boys” dig part of Nigeria’s unofficial Igbophobia
By Farooq A. Kperogi Danladi Umar, the notoriously vain and sickeningly skin-bleached chairman of…
Governor Umahi and limits of sycophancy
By Emeka Alex Duru While he cries over the attack by Fulani herdsmen on Ebonyi community…
Opinion: An administration and its silver linings
By Ikechukwu Amaechi Spin doctors in the presidency and their cohorts outside seem to have…
Opinion: Once upon a time in Singapore
By Olukorede Yishau In Singapore, life is good. You begin to have this feeling right…
Opinion: Buhari’s Nigeria, an endless force majeure
By Steve Osuji A STATE OF SUSTAINED FORCE MAJEURE: Force majeure, a phrase of French…
Leadership notes from Gov. Zulum
By Dakuku Peterside Last week, at a lecture to commemorate my 50th birthday and the…
#Project-2023: The writings on the wall
By Martins Oloja They are on the march again. It is their season. They have organised…
Why Pombe Magufuli can never grow on Nigerian soil
By Festus Adedayo Statesman and late President of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, Leopold Sedar Senghor,…
Relax, no more needless agitation
By Pastor Jerry Eze “And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother…
The Ojudu I Know, by Bamidele Johnson
One Saturday in May 1996, I arrived for a job interview at 26 Ijaiye Road, Ogba,…
President Buhari and his prodigal men, by Dele Momodu
Fellow Nigerians, here I go again with my lamentations over the reckless mismanagement of our very…
This time last year
By Olukorede Yishau This time last year, birds no longer sounded like birds. Rats sounded like…
Buba Marwa and the bad guys, by Femi Adesina
New things are happening at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and suddenly, there’s a…
Opinion: Ndi Anambra, Anambra International Cargo/Passenger Airport is coming, anticipate!
By Uche Nworah Very soon, just very soon, you will take off from Lagos, Abuja,…
Opinion: Ihedioha @ 56: Salute to the fastidious one
By Steve Osuji WHERE’S YOUR LGA?: How would you rate your governor? In fact,…
Opinion – Punch: The many troubles of a fifty-something-year old
By Steve Osuji The Punch is faltering. It had been so for quite a…
Mahdi Shehu’s Quest for Sympathy, by Gimba Kakanda
In the video, he’s flat on his back, wearing neck and back braces, his crutches beside…
Denmark takes the law into its hands?
By Dakuku Peterside. Last week, something with significant but far-reaching diplomatic implications happened in security circles,…
Africa Economic Outlook 2021: AfDB, debt crisis and vaccines
By Martins Oloja Permit me to step aside this week from contextual reporting of the terrorism…
Burna Boy as Nigerian musicians’ gutters-to-Grammy story
By Festus Adedayo When he voiced his ambition to be a standup comedian, Jewish American, Samuel…