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Category: Opinions/Columnists
TRIBUTE: Goodnight, Comrade Bonnie Iwuoha
By Emeka Alex Duru My intimacy with former President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ),…
Sanwo-Olu and this joke called federalism
By Olukorede Yishau On Tuesday, we all got another piece of evidence that we are deceiving…
Magodo fiasco, Gov. Sanwo-Olu and genuine leadership
By Gboyega Akosile I have read a lot reactions and media reports on the engagement between…
2023 and the quest for all-Nigerian president
By Abu Shekara Who’s to say there was ever a time, since the civil war, when…
OPINION: Remembering Bashir Tofa
By Doyin Okupe I was a director of communication for Alhaji Bashir Tofa’s campaign organisation. I…
Governor vs IGP: Only restructuring can save Nigeria
By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa Section 215 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as…
OPINION: Soot and our collective conscience (2)
By Dakuku Peterside Last week, in this column, we looked at the scientific, social, economic, and…
Restarting the fuel subsidy war
By Simon Kolawole Mrs Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, dropped a…
EULOGY: Tribute to the most fearless person I ever knew
By Strive Masiyiwa “A burning and shining light” For me Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the best…
OPINION: What money can’t buy
By Gimba Kakanda Whether in measuring a nation’s vulnerability in the balance of power or the…
Perhaps nature should not have blessed Nigeria
By Azuka Onwuka If countries could be categorised as “blessed” or “cursed” by nature, which countries…
Between Muhammadu Indimi and John D. Rockefeller
As another year begins tomorrow, please let us make it a habit to touch lives in…
OPINION: Soot and our collective conscience (1)
By Dakuku Peterside As you read this column, there is a high probability that there is…
OPINION – Hisbah: The poor man’s police
By Gimba Kakanda Nothing emphasizes one’s vulnerability in Nigeria as much as being poor, and this…
OPINION: Letter to the land of the happiest people on earth
By Olukorede Yishau Forty-eight years after his second novel, ‘Season of Anomie’, Wole Soyinka released another…
OPINION: #Pause: How big is the industry in which you do business?
By Strive Masiyiwa __”Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others”… As…
Reducing the cost of governance in Nigeria revisited
By Ejeviome Eloho Otobo and Oseloka H. Obaze Every so often, the calls for reducing the…
OPINION: Has democracy failed Nigerians?
By Dakuku Peterside Globally, citizens of countries with democratic profiles are beginning to question the efficacy…
Circumstantial evidence says it’s murder, sir!
(A factionalized – fact and fiction – account of murder in a hotel) Festus…
APC and threats to Nigeria’s democracy
By Emeka Alex Duru The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is at war with itself,…
Buhari at 79: Lessons we’ve learnt from him
By Femi Adesina When he popped out of his mother’s womb 79 years ago in rustic…
OPINION: Wike is a chartered ignoramus on economy
By Dakuku Peterside I watched Governor Wike spend more than one hour of precious time on…
VAIA Terminal: Udom’s evolutionary legacy in aviation
By Martin Inyangetoh & Glory James There is no gainsaying the fact that, there are many…
OPINION: Ngige, Andy Uba and the pendulum of leadership in Anambra APC
By Ife Osemedua The current tussle for the control of the leadership of the Anambra state…
Shehu Ilelah: The proverbial cow tail and the new reforms at NBC
By Rev Solomon Semaka A story was told of a grocery store owner whose only…
A bloody NUJ election, police detention and assassination: Excerpt from Emeka Nwosu’s new book
“Within the period I was in active journalism practice, I was deeply involved in the…
Nwanyi Imo Bus Stop: How mentally challenged woman was immortalised in Nnewi
By Azuka Onwuka In the 1970s and 1980s there were few but notable and popular…