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Category: Opinions/Columnists
OPINION – How not to redesign the naira
Up to 1984, for instance, the naira was a legal tender in Saudi Arabia. People were…
OPINION – Abiola: The audacity to cancel
How can a latter day “pro-democracy” activist eulogise a dictator for canceling an election whose winner…
2023: Battle between intemperate language, fake news and judicial rascality
These unholy triune forces are powerful enough to cause mayhem and destroy our electoral process come…
OPINION – Tinubu’s cognitive decline, ASUU’s misplaced aggression
What was that? Balabloo bloo blu bulaba? I understand enough Yoruba to know that that isn’t…
OPINION – National Assembly and private sector operators
I have always wondered if the National Assembly has the kind of power to carry out…
Re: History beckons and I will not be silent by Prof Chukwuma Soludo part 1
When I told some friends last week that Governor Soludo is on a clear mission to…
OPINION – Soludo and Obi: An exposition
We all know how shares fluctuate in the stock market especially with the fall of naira…
OPINION – More Nigerians should ‘japa’
Facts on ground show that Nigeria does not measure in the first 10 countries whose citizens…
OPINION: Leadership is key to unlocking Nigeria’s growth potential
The time for transformational leaders in Nigeria is now. Nigeria needs leaders that create a vision…
Channels Television appearance: The truth Prof. Soludo does not want to tell Ndi Anambra
Those investments done by Mr Peter Obi were not in secret. In fact, he made them…
Dino Melaye malady and Atiku fantasy for 2023
When therefore he took on the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, at…
OPINION – I remember you, Biyi Bandele
No culture is superior to the other. What is barbaric to one race is some other…
OPINION: Okowa needs to know why Peter Obi saved money…and in Dollars.
One man, with the discipline, principle and political will to stem the tide and rescue our…
OPINION – Ned Nwoko’s call for suspension of Governor Wike in order
Wike has made strenuous efforts to destroy the party ever since his loss to Atiku Abubakar…
OPINION – The abduction of Pa Reuben Fasoranti
The fifth threat to the Afenifere and the quest of the Yoruba is Bola Ahmed Tinubu.…
I pity Buhari’s successor
Buhari took the same step in 1984 when he came in as a military dictator. At…
BOOK REVIEW: A vote for justice
In WITNESS TO JUSTICE, Mathew Hassan Kukah documents gross human rights violations in Nigeria like never…
OPINION – What Fayemi can learn from Shettima
The reasons for the apparent cordiality between Bukola Saraki and Abdulfatah Ahmed on the one hand…
Running for office isn’t a tea party many think it is
In Nigeria, when you run for president let’s say on the platform of the All Progressives…
OPINION: Productive people in a productive country
Presidential candidates need to tell us more about how they plan to incentivise innovation to unlock…
OPINION – As America votes
In the run-up to this important moment, I have watched campaigns by American politicians; I have…
OPINION: If not for Peter
Indeed, is there any way anyone could look at the Obi candidacy and fault it? If…
OPINION – Fighting oppressors is my life
They also came with some money for me which I turned down. Some of them had…
OPINION – Terror Alert: America obsessed with belittling less endowed countries
I should have been informed if there is anything like danger. You are in my territory…
Peter Obi’s soothing balm to Nigeria’s flood victims
The LP candidate has bright chances in the 2023 election. He has the capacity, the character…
OPINION – Hope Buhari doesn’t appear on new naira notes
With an ineffectual, uninformed, obsequious, servile, and partisan CBN governor like Emefiele who is beholden to…
OPINION – 2023: Manifestos that will not manifest
What if we treated voting as a transaction between the voter and the elected officials, as…
OPINION – Inside the soul of Seoul
A country must have a soul. If the soul is wicked, filled with hatred, bile, insurgency,…