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Category: Opinions/Columnists
OPINION – APC, PDP and the danger of political exclusion
By Azuka Onwuka At the recently concluded gubernatorial election in Ekiti State, the candidate of the…
OPINION – The clog in NNPP, Labour Party merger
By Emmanuel Ogbeche “MERGING (emphasis mine) with the Labour Party is very significant at this critical…
OPINION – The Essence of Peter Obi
By Gimba Kakanda On Arise TV sometime in January 2020, the late Malam Samaila Isa Funtua,…
The Muslim-Muslim ticket, the prostitute and her Qu’ran
By Festus Adedayo Separating the Nigerian from his politics and religion is almost like a man…
OPINION – The virtues of stinginess
By Sam Amadi This morning I encountered those moments that teach you better than a Harvard…
OPINION – Asiwaju : Leadership In troubled times
By Babatunde Raji Fashola When at a Public event, I described Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as…
OPINION – The Peter Obi tsunami APC and PDP are underrating
By Farooq A. Kperogi Former Anambra State governor Peter Obi is inspiring a powerful, social media-enabled,…
OPINION – For 2023, Nigeria barters its future
By Emeka Alex Duru You would notice the frenzy for 2023 among Nigerians these days. Virtually…
OPINION – A mother and her daughter
By Olukorede Yishau What could make a daughter and mother sleep with the same man? Why…
OPINION – What I know about Peter Obi’s supposed ‘stinginess’
By Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu Sometime in 2009, ‘Mr’(as he preferred to be addressed) Peter Obi, Governor…
OPINION – How much of Obi the miser do you know?
By Sunny Igboanugo How much of Peter Obi do you really know? Okay let’s start with…
OPINION – How much of Obi the miser do you know?
By Sunny Igboanugo How much of Peter Obi do you really know? Okay let’s start with…
OPINION – Before we run amok like in 2015…
By Emmanuel Ogbeche In the run up to the 2015 elections, Nigerians were in desperate clamour…
OPINION – Party delegate system and Nigeria’s democracy: Time for something different
By Angela Agoawike Two thousand and twenty-three will be a year of reckoning for Nigeria. It…
OPINION – The Kashim Shettima I know
By Ismail Omipidan He was never a member of the defunct Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, or…
TRIBUTE – Abdulsalami: A soldier of democracy, peace and unity
By Atiku Abubakar It’s impossible to meet General Abdulsalami Abubakar without being inspired by his warmth…
OPINION – The Muslim/Muslim ticket
By Femi Fani-Kayode A high-ranking and respected official of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) came…
OPINION – Tinubu, Atiku, Peter Obi: Who is our ‘Messiah’?
By Kazeem Akintunde We are gradually inching toward a change of baton from President Muhammadu Buhari…
Take aways from the presidential nominations
By Dakuku Peterside After a long voyage , all the political parties have concluded their special…
OPINION – The new blackmail in town
By Azuka Onwuka Between 2014 and 2015 when the presidential campaign was on, I took a…
OPINION – 2023: Tinubu will send Atiku back to Dubai
By Kassim Afegbua Let me first of all, congratulate the All Progressives’ Congress; APC, and particularly…
OPINION – The ruins, villains and bagmen of June 12
By Festus Adedayo After last week’s national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu…
OPINION – 9th National Assembly: Three years of productive Legislative business
By Ola Awoniyi The Ninth National Assembly can be proud that it has made its mark.…
OPINION – Atiku, Tinubu should embrace south-east and end the apartheid
By Fredrick Nwabufo It has been seven years of attrition, hate-bartering and exhausting recriminations. A new…
OPINION- ICYMI: Observing Tinubu in Atiku’s mirror
By Gimba Kakanda When former Vice President Atiku Abubakar picked the PDP ticket to tackle President…
OPINION – Crazy moments
By Olukorede Yishau These are interesting times to be a Nigerian. Even when you are outside…
OPINION – Don’t suppress Igbo intending voters
By Sam Amadi I am told that in just a few weeks after Peter Obi switched…
OPINION – As in PDP, as in APC, the South East loses
By Emeka Alex Duru When the former Senate President, Chuba Okadigbo, sniggered that what existed in…
OPINION: Seeing Peter Obi through the prisms of his younger brother
By Valentine Obienyem I knew Mr. Peter Obi’s younger brother long before I met Mr. Peter…