By Emeka Alex Duru While he cries over the attack by Fulani herdsmen on Ebonyi community…
Category: Opinions/Columnists
Opinion: An administration and its silver linings
By Ikechukwu Amaechi Spin doctors in the presidency and their cohorts outside seem to have…
Opinion: Once upon a time in Singapore
By Olukorede Yishau In Singapore, life is good. You begin to have this feeling right…
Opinion: Buhari’s Nigeria, an endless force majeure
By Steve Osuji A STATE OF SUSTAINED FORCE MAJEURE: Force majeure, a phrase of French…
Leadership notes from Gov. Zulum
By Dakuku Peterside Last week, at a lecture to commemorate my 50th birthday and the…
#Project-2023: The writings on the wall
By Martins Oloja They are on the march again. It is their season. They have organised…
Why Pombe Magufuli can never grow on Nigerian soil
By Festus Adedayo Statesman and late President of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, Leopold Sedar Senghor,…
Relax, no more needless agitation
By Pastor Jerry Eze “And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother…
The Ojudu I Know, by Bamidele Johnson
One Saturday in May 1996, I arrived for a job interview at 26 Ijaiye Road, Ogba,…
President Buhari and his prodigal men, by Dele Momodu
Fellow Nigerians, here I go again with my lamentations over the reckless mismanagement of our very…
This time last year
By Olukorede Yishau This time last year, birds no longer sounded like birds. Rats sounded like…
Buba Marwa and the bad guys, by Femi Adesina
New things are happening at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and suddenly, there’s a…
Opinion: Ndi Anambra, Anambra International Cargo/Passenger Airport is coming, anticipate!
By Uche Nworah Very soon, just very soon, you will take off from Lagos, Abuja,…
Opinion: Ihedioha @ 56: Salute to the fastidious one
By Steve Osuji WHERE’S YOUR LGA?: How would you rate your governor? In fact,…
Opinion – Punch: The many troubles of a fifty-something-year old
By Steve Osuji The Punch is faltering. It had been so for quite a…
Mahdi Shehu’s Quest for Sympathy, by Gimba Kakanda
In the video, he’s flat on his back, wearing neck and back braces, his crutches beside…
Denmark takes the law into its hands?
By Dakuku Peterside. Last week, something with significant but far-reaching diplomatic implications happened in security circles,…
Africa Economic Outlook 2021: AfDB, debt crisis and vaccines
By Martins Oloja Permit me to step aside this week from contextual reporting of the terrorism…
Burna Boy as Nigerian musicians’ gutters-to-Grammy story
By Festus Adedayo When he voiced his ambition to be a standup comedian, Jewish American, Samuel…
World Down Syndrome Day: Connecting Positively
By Duma Edward-Dibiana World Down Syndrome Day is celebrated across the globe on March 21, every…
Ugwuanyi: Tearing down walls of exclusion at 57
By Laurence Ani For aides of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the date March 20 often presents a…
Putting Nigeria together again will be hard
By Ikechukwu Amaechi Can Nigeria ever be put back together? This question concentrated my mind on…
Let me tell you about Dadasare Abdullahi
By Olukorede Yishau Hajia Maimunatu Dadasare Abdullahi killed herself at 66. This was in 1984, fourteen…
We are all together – by Femi Adesina
Those who are younger than 55 or thereabouts may not easily get the joke in the…
Opinion: The changing face of Awka under Obiano
By Ejike Anyaduba Until the Obiano administration, not much in terms of development was…
Opinion: Stopping the elites from replacing Nigeria
By Owei Lakemfa I leapt for joy last week. News about Nigeria is usually depressing. But…
Rise of politics, fall of reason
By Dakuku Peterside In a constitutional democracy, politics is the only legitimate route to governance. And…
Sokoto’s grant-application template, by Gimba Kakanda
Last year, a friend of mine who works at an international financial institution pointed me to…