By Gimba Kakanda Last Friday, I was privileged to attend the screening of Trust TV’s unreleased…
Category: Opinions/Columnists
OPINION: Emmanuel Okala, Christian Chukwu and Obiano’s response to Igbo affairs
By James Eze The Igbo are often impatient with their leaders. Our republican nature makes it…
OPINION: Tinubu, Dogara and the prison and poison of religious politics
By Farooq A. Kperogi The two most disadvantaged groups in Nigeria’s representational politics are northern Christians…
IWD: Accepting women as partners in progress, the way forward
By Abiemwense Moru It is a day set aside by the UN to bring issues that…
The jurisprudence of zoning or rotational governance
By Chimezie Ogenna Nwodo Law, incidentally, does not enjoy a universal acceptance in terms of definitions.…
OPINION: Buni repeats history
By Emmanuel Ogbeche On March 4, 2020, I had cause to reflect on the fall of…
OPINION: Buhari’s serial abuse of Nigeria’s Lady Justice
By Festus Adedayo Though it looks harmless, political cartooning can be nerve-racking, provoking the bile of…
OPINION: As Nigeria toys with the youth, gambles with the future
By Emeka Alex Duru Unless, as it is said, the carriage of a messenger depicts the…
OPINION: A Nigerian air traveller’s day
By Olukorede Yishau Your flight was 11.50pm. The airline advised that you should get to the…
Does Christianity condemn alcohol or drunkenness?
— Who created the “new law” among Christians that tasting or even touching alcohol is a…
OPINION: Ozoemezina – Obiano’s tribute to Igbo memory
By James Eze Seven years ago, Governor Willie Obiano symbolically laid wreaths before a long list…
OPINION: The Ninth National Assembly and Electoral Act 2022
By Ola Awoniyi The happy ending of Electoral Act No.6 2010 (amendment) Bill 2022, which was…
OPINION: Exit talks of political office holders
By Dakuku Peterside The beauty of democracy lies in the transient nature of political power. The…
Nigeria’s windfalls from Russo-Ukrainian war
By Gimba Kakanda A few days ago, a former presidential aspirant stirred up controversy when he…
OPINION – PDP 2023: Atiku Abubakar lied
By Kassim Afegbua I read with dismay the statement credited to former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku…
Emir Bayero, African bigmanism and audacity of the blue blood
By Festus Adedayo The spat between the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero and Air…
OPINION: A brief allocution on the salient provisions of the amended electoral act
By Kayode Ajulo Today, 25th of February, 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Electoral Act,…
OPINION: Tinubu knows he’s lost out. Now he wants to burn it all down’
By Farooq A. Kperogi Although I have said in the past that next year’s presidential contest…
OPINION: Killing fields of the South East
By Emeka Alex Duru The piece by a colleague, Casmir Igbokwe, on Monday, February 14, 2022,…
OPINION: Buhari’s kind of kindness
By Femi Adesina A man with empathy for the poor, the weak and the vulnerable. He…
When fiction probes silence, darkness
By Olukorede Yishau Jumoke Verissimo’s ‘A Small Silence’ has a ring around it: Silence. In this…
OPINION: What, exactly, does Nigeria want from Ndigbo?
…Ndigbo are the glue that holds the country together By Ikechukwu Amaechi The usual refrain on…
OPINION: The Wealth Creator
By N.T.A. Efo Thanks to his resolute leadership style as a private sector operator, foremost gubernatorial…
What a thanksgiving!
By Charles Okogene The day was February 14, 2022. Incidentally, it was a date set aside…
OPINION – Ephraim Akparawa Inyang-eyen: Our politics of subtraction
By Michael Bush Last night as I contemplated this piece, some troubling, godforsaken news filtered in.…
OPINION: Are our ancestors of any real value?
By Bamidele Johnson At the peak of the Sunday Igboho-headlined secessionist project, Oduduwa, the presumed progenitor…
Previously unseen bombshell ASUU report on Pantami’s controversial professorship
By Farooq Kperogi Someone shared with me this February 12, 2022, report of the ASUU committee…
OPINION: Drama, reality and illegal refineries
By Dakuku Peterside The debate about politicians being among the best actors on earth is as…
Why Is the police CRU quiet?
By Gimba Kakanda Even though DCP Abba Kyari was long unravelled, a side of his criminal…
Aregbesola, political treachery and the Ijebu-Jesa sermon
By Festus Adedayo Chinua Achebe’s Tortoise folktale in his highly celebrated Things Fall Apart, among other…