By Dakuku Peterside I watched Governor Wike spend more than one hour of precious time on…
Category: Opinions/Columnists
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…
Why the North bleeds and the people sleep
By Farooq A. Kperogi Northern Nigeria, particularly Muslim northern Nigeria, has become by far the…
Bisi Akande: Beatifying Buhari in a season of the butcherbird
By Festus Adedayo As former governor of Osun State and pioneer Chairman of the All…
Publications against Military irresponsible, politically motivated – CSOs
… Laud efforts of security forces in combating crimes 1. A coalition of civil society organisations…
OPINION: Sokoto State in dire distress; time to act, Mr. President
By Aminu Waziri Tambuwal It is with gratitude to Almighty God that we receive…
OPINION – Osinbajo’s road to Abuja: The untold story
By Olawale Olaleye Since his emergence as Nigeria’s number-two citizen, different accounts had been flying around…
TRIBUTE – Sam Nda-Isaiah: One Year After
By Azu Ishiekwene I still remember that night like yesterday. Our lives had been turned upside…
OPINION: Aba and leadership failure in South East
By Emeka Alex Duru If Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State and indeed, the…
Lies and scandals on the pulpit
By Olukorede Yishau Sylva Nze Ifedigbo— writer, essayist and many other things— has a collection…
An Uncommon Public Officer, Godswill Akpabio hits 59
By Jackson Udom He is an epitome of Excellence in Service; a staunch believer in…
Governor Obiano: When will they stop underrating him?
By James Eze It is hard to believe but true that governor Willie Obiano of…
OPINION: My boarding school experience
By Azuka Onwuka Since last week when 11-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, pupil of Dowen College, Lagos, was…
Nembe oil spill and Kabiru Yusuf’s vexatious meddlesomeness
By Daniel Alabrah Reading one Mallam Kabiru Yusuf’s diatribe against the Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye…
OPINION: The Christmas gift Nigerians deserve
By Dakuku Peterside Though a Christian celebration, Christmas has turned into a cosmopolitan, cultural, and social…
My Kuje experience, two years after, by Orji Kalu
Today is the second anniversary of my incarceration at the Nigerian Correctional Service Medial Security…
OPINION: JORAISU strike and Nigeria’s illusion of technological advancement
By Emeka Alex Duru A stroll through the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos,…
Oil spillage is drowning our communities in Bayelsa
By Timi Alaibe Nembe, an otherwise quiet, beautiful kingdom in Bayelsa State, populated by a…
OPINION: The Nigeria agenda
By Kayode Fayemi (Text of an address by His Excellency, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, CON Governor, Ekiti…
OPINION: A generation ambushed by drugs
By Dakuku Peterside Nelson Mandela, the legendary African anti-apartheid fighter, said the future belongs to the…
Subsidizing national outrage
By Gimba Kakanda December tends to be when signs and predictions of harder time begin…
TRIBUTE: Integrity was your watchword – Apostle Agboli’s widow
By Blessing Agboli It’s never been so hard to pen my thoughts. My heart seems…
Insecurity in the Northwest: A tragedy of errors
By Abu Shekara The Northwest of Nigeria is at a standstill. Disruption and destruction summerize…
OPINION: Lai Mohammed, Lagos #EndSARS Panel report and limits of rascality
By Emeka Alex Duru The drama by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, at…