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OPINION – Portrait of the government critic as a hater
The political zealots have even resorted to blackmail as a part of their scheme to shut…
OPINION – The case of Miss Ejikeme’s UTME record
What she needs at this point isn’t institutionalised harassment. She needs, first and foremost, a good…
OPINION – Sokoto’s mob justice crisis
When Citizen Deborah was murdered, the political class remained silent, fearing that it would affect the…
OPINION – Qatar ‘22: Will the Moors rule Europe again?
France is the favourite team now to win the World Cup.” He also reminded us that…
OPINION – Poor man’s vote, big man’s excuse
The candidates who make it to the ballot papers are hardly the popular choices of the…
OPINION – Queen Elizabeth II: Life after death
Far away, in Britain, Queen Elizabeth II’s paternal uncle, King Edward VII, sat on the throne…
OPINION – And the East roars back
The surge in the recently-concluded PVC registrations across the South-East was not a mistake. The…
OPINION – Silence of the lax
Buhari’s government has been undermined by this characteristic laissez-faire attitude towards the actions and inactions of…
OPINION – Nigeria ‘23: The danger of deviation
By Gimba Kakanda Perhaps with the announcement of Senator Kashim Shettima as the running mate of…
OPINION – Ekweremadu: Trial of a stray lion
By Gimba Kakanda When the British tabloid, Daily Mail, first ran a story that a “Man…
OPINION – The Essence of Peter Obi
By Gimba Kakanda On Arise TV sometime in January 2020, the late Malam Samaila Isa Funtua,…
OPINION- ICYMI: Observing Tinubu in Atiku’s mirror
By Gimba Kakanda When former Vice President Atiku Abubakar picked the PDP ticket to tackle President…
OPINION: Jonathan’s Thanos moment
By Gimba Kakanda In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a massively successful American media franchise based on…
Osinbajo: A Pastor’s Political Dilemma
By Gimba Kakanda The storm rippling across the political camp of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has…
OPINION: The African-American dilemma
By Gimba Kakanda In January I chanced upon a polarizing discussion around the United States immigration…
Nigeria’s windfalls from Russo-Ukrainian war
By Gimba Kakanda A few days ago, a former presidential aspirant stirred up controversy when he…
Why Is the police CRU quiet?
By Gimba Kakanda Even though DCP Abba Kyari was long unravelled, a side of his criminal…
Letting the cat out of Zouma’s case
By Gimba Kakanda I doubt Kurt Zouma, the black French footballer at the centre of trending…
Trials without verdicts
By Gimba Kakanda Perhaps the most dreaded end of every public figure today, especially one who’s…
Observing Tinubu in Atiku’s mirror
By Gimba Kakanda When former Vice President Atiku Abubakar picked the PDP ticket to tackle President…
Twitter isn’t back, the government is
By Gimba Kakanda After a seven-month blackout, which was punctuated by suspense and rumours of the…
2023: The price of apathy
By Gimba Kakanda Even though Nigeria’s next President appears to be the most unpredictable since our…
Subsidizing national outrage
By Gimba Kakanda December tends to be when signs and predictions of harder time begin…
The Nigerian 2023 Prisoner’s Dilemma
By Gimba Kakanda The formula for selecting a viable pair to have the highest numbers…
APC’s South East problem
By Gimba Kakanda Even before Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People’s of Biafra…
Lessons from the 2021 PDP convention
By Gimba Kakanda Sometime in September, the posters of a young man began to appear…
The Nobel prize for public opinion
By Gimba Kakanda The reason literature has always taken the front page every October, when…
OPINION: FFK and NOI: A lesson on privilege
By Gimba Kakanda Beaming in her trademark ankara dress on the website of Time magazine…
OPINION: What next after these shutdowns?
By Gimba Kakanda The directive to have telecoms services suspended for two weeks in Zamfara…