Osita Izunaso started his political career in the National Assembly in 1991 during the short-lived 3rd…
Category: Opinions/Columnists
Why I want to be Senate President – Akpabio
I made that promise even on the convention day that being a man who used to…
Elumelu vs Otedola Chess game: Is Tony Elumelu missing Albert Okumagba?
UBA was captured, and Tony Elumelu became the golden boy while Okumagba was the engine room;…
OPINION – Nigeria’s Sudan question
Like Nigeria, however, Sudan is ridden with corruption. It is perceived as one of the most…
OPINION – The time to reward ‘Rice Man’ is here!
As an educationist and development angel, who is basically acquinted with modern reality of the place…
OPINION – Sub-national governance in Nigeria: The Ekiti example
I must admit that in preparing for office, I had a unique opportunity. The three and…
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Saworoide 2’ at a time like this
Our next leaders should enter a pact with Nigerians with a modern version of ‘saworoide’ and…
OPINION – Ken Imasuagbon’s quest for Edo top job in 2024
By Victor Osagie IN the last two decades, Barrister Kenneth Imasuagbon, a Nigerian educationist, lawyer, entrepreneur,…
OPINION – Why South-East doesn’t deserve Senate presidency again
It will be unjust and unfair for the South-East to produce the Senate president when the…
Edo 2024: Dr Azemhe Azena rekindles hope in Edo
By Irowa Aibuedefe Adolf ONE of the most powerful televangelist in Nigeria’s contemporary theological history, would…
OPINION – Nigeria’s past shouldn’t be today’s burden
No one can hold their own version of history as truth everyone must chow down. There…
Lai Mohammed’s phantom treason charge against Obi, Datti
Chukwumerije accused Abiola of treason, for insisting that he be declared the president-elect. Subsequent events led…
OPINION – Between America’s institutions and Trump
It matters not if Donald Trump is found guilty or not after trial. What matters is…
BOOK REVIEW: Let’s talk about Lola Akinmade
Lola and Jessica were so eager and positive that the book would be snapped up in…
2023 elections, ethnic bigots and the rest of us
A certain Yoruba lady came close to such fatal fate at the March 18 governorship election…
OPINION – On Chimaraoke and his tribe
Across the land, he is easily best remembered as using 50 million Naira of the State’s…
OPINION – Memo to their Excellencies, the Governors-elect
Betrayal, dog eat dog, hatred and witch-hunting are the posters of Nigerian politics. As it is…
Lack of rigor and a fraudulent election
Apart from the corruption of INEC commissioners and staff, there is general sloppiness about the manner…
Igbo as scapegoat of Lagos politics
By Emeka Alex Duru Events in the country, keep proving late Prof Chinua Achebe right that…
Kogi Guber: Tom Ohikere as the indispensable playmaker
Unbroken and undeterred he retreated to national politics to make his own contributions to the fate…
OPINION – Now that we have arrived Rwanda
By Festus Adedayo Just before genocide broke out in Rwanda in 1994, a broadcaster on…
OPINION – Is this the Buhari legacy of credible elections?
But few months into the administration, it became obvious that the head of state had no…
OPINION – Lagos Guber polls: Attacks on Ndigbo and what Sanwo-olu must do
As I have noted in the past, Igbo and Yoruba in Nigeria may be compared to…
OPINION – There is sadness In the land
Cast your mind back to where you were and what you did after Barrack Obama was…
OPINION- Country is in a fragile place
A sludge of tension is in the air. A simmering rage. Some voters say that the…
Now That We Have Voted…
Perhaps the biggest success of the 2022 elections is that Kenyans demonstrated commitment to move past…
Nigeria’s Population Time Bomb
By Julius Ogunro Nigeria’s population is projected to reach 400 million by 2050, doubling the…
OPINION – CBN’s Naira Confiscation, A Poverty Inducing Monetary Policy
Not only are new notes generally unavailable, the old ones have been summarily declared unlawful in…