By Daniel Alabrah Reading one Mallam Kabiru Yusuf’s diatribe against the Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye…
Category: Opinions/Columnists
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…
Poverty is not a Muslim
By Abu Shekara Our beloved prophet, Muhammad (SAW) was a merchant, two of his most…
EndSARS Panel as model for Nigeria (2)
By Ebun Olu-Adegoruwa Last week, I opined that the Lagos EndSARS Panel should be adopted…
Lekki Tollgate and Nigeria’s killing fields
By Emeka Alex Duru Any Nigerian that does not feel sufficiently piqued by the reports…
The Nigerian 2023 Prisoner’s Dilemma
By Gimba Kakanda The formula for selecting a viable pair to have the highest numbers…
OPINION: Hunger Republic
By Dakuku Peterside Every day, ordinary Nigerians from Maiduguri to Oyorokoto-Andoni in Rivers State, Okerenkoko-Delta to…
My narrow escape from ritual killers in Ibadan
By Farooq A. Kperogi The brutal murder–“for ritual sacrifice”–of a postgraduate student of the Obafemi…
OPINION: Revolt of “repentant” Boko Haram terrorists proves my point
By Farooq A. Kperogi AFP, the French wire service, reported on November 18 that “Hundreds of…
OPINION: Mkpuru Mmiri: New cancer in the southeast
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu Recently, a video went viral on social media. You may have seen it.…
OPINION: E.C. Osondu and parliament of the past
By Olukorede Yishau Remy Ngamije coined the phrase ‘parliament of the past’ in his…
The continuing debate on national rebirth
By Emeka Nwosu, PhD On Tuesday, November 16, 2021, at the main Auditorium of Nnamdi…
OPINION: Corruption runs deeper than we think
By Azuka Onwuka There was a time I thought that if we had good leaders and…
CBN: Pioneering a resilient and sustainable economy in Nigeria
By Rev Solomon Semaka The banking system as we have it now has evolved over time…
NYSC Trust Fund: Supporting the biggest employer of labour in Nigeria
By Fidelis Fater The South Africa apartheid regime was one of the most tragic events…
Who deserves pardon: Saro-Wiwa or Buhari?
By Festus Adedayo At No 9, Rumuibekwe Road in Port Harcourt on November 10,…
APC’s South East problem
By Gimba Kakanda Even before Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People’s of Biafra…
OPINION: Takeaways of Anambra governorship poll
By Emeka Alex Duru But for the life-and-death attitude of the Nigerian politician that may see…
BOOK REVIEW: Nigeria’s Lost Dream
Book Title: Nigeria’s Lost Dream Author: Peter Nandi Bette Year of Publication: 2021 Place of Publication:…