By Festus Adedayo Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English,…
Category: Opinions/Columnists
How to manage a child with eating challenge
By Azuka Onwuka One challenge many parents have is coping with children that are picky of…
OPINION: Clarity on Tinubu’s age and postsecondary education
By Farooq A. Kperogi I resent Bola Tinubu’s politics and don’t want him to be president…
OPINION: Fuel subsidy removal and duplicity of Nigerian leaders
By Emeka Alex Duru The maxim is that the primary function of government is protection of…
2023: ‘Buhari wants Sylva, not Tinubu or Osinbajo as successor’
By Farooq Kperogi It has turned out that it was actually Buhari himself, not the Aso…
OPINION: Losing is part of the game
By Femi Adesina Soccer-loving Nigerians were heartbroken last Sunday when the Super Eagles of Nigeria could…
OPINION: To Ado Doguwa with admiration
By Olukorede Yishau When I first knew you, you were Chief Whip. Now, you are House…
OPINION: Nigeria’s future and 2023 consequential election
Nigeria’s future and 2023 consequential electio By Ikechukwu Amaechi “Elections have consequences.” Those three words, first…
OPINION: Afegbua and the misguided quest for a southern president in PDP
By Hon. (Engr.) Ahmed Muktar Recently, Kassim Afegbua, one of the former spokespersons of Atiku Abubakar…
International Day of Education: The giant strides of Governor Tambuwal
By Fabian Okoye January 24 is observed every year to celebrate the role of education for…
OPINION: A subject you must not fear if you want to succeed as an entrepreneur (Part 2)
By Strive Masiyiwa “If you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know your business”. If we…
Banditry: Time to apologize to General Danjuma
By Lasisi Olagunju Some people sold their father’s land to purchase guns; now that war is…
OPINION: Still on 2023 and political masquerades
By Dakuku Peterside Last week, we metaphorically likened presidential aspirants to masquerades stepping out for the…
OPINION: Observing Tinubu in Atiku’s mirror
By Gimba Kakanda When former Vice President Atiku Abubakar picked the PDP ticket to tackle President…
2023: Atiku and the age of Methuselah politics
By Kassim Afegbua Having concluded the convention of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, with a new…
Observing Tinubu in Atiku’s mirror
By Gimba Kakanda When former Vice President Atiku Abubakar picked the PDP ticket to tackle President…
Teens, ‘Yahoo-plus’, rituals and cultism
By Emedolibe Ngozi Emeka It is unfortunate that we don’t see the likes of Frank Olize,…
OPINION – 2023: PDP, South East and reward for loyalty
By Emeka Alex Duru There is always this temptation to sketch an analogy between the Peoples…
“Owners of Nigeria” have been and can be defeated
By Farooq Kperogi In his interview with Arise TV recently, Ovation publisher and presidential hopeful Dele…
Capping my advertising career with APCON fellowship
By Uche Nworah Today, Wednesday, 19th January, 2022, at Radisson Blu Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, alongside other…
OPINION – 2023: And they say Igbo don’t have men
By Steve Osuji These are no ordinary times for our great country Nigeria. In ordinary times,…
OPINION: 2023 presidential race may divide the South
By Azuka Onwuka Last week, former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, paid a visit…
OPINION: Past seven years: A Missed opportunity to stem elite superiority (Nkali)
By Osita Chidoka Femi Otedola and Aliko Dangote went to a Drivers Licence Centre (DLC) in…
OPINION: In Africa we have to deal with a “degree of difficulty” factor
By Strive Masiyiwa “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping…
2023: Some proverbs for the North and Tinubu
By Lasisi Olagunju Ph.D The aged died, we replaced him with the chronically ill; who does…
2023: ‘It’s a new day and Yemi Osinbajo is the man’
By Olusola Adeyeye For me, it is an easy choice to make. For millions of Nigerians,…
OPINION – 2023: Where are the masquerades?
By Dakuku Peterside There are masquerades in every culture and the life of every individual. The…
Twitter isn’t back, the government is
By Gimba Kakanda After a seven-month blackout, which was punctuated by suspense and rumours of the…
Why Tinubu must never be Nigeria’s president
By Festus Adedayo So I was at the Alausa Governor’s Office in Lagos. Accessing the governor…