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IN less than 72 hours last weekend, two of the three frauds that have been planned against Nigerians happened. But they have not gone full cycle...
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The political trajectory of Nigeria in the next four years will be initialised this Saturday – as the two leading political parties (the APC and the...
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It is well-known to all that the Ninth Senate had sent quite a number of public legislative bills to the President for assent; one of such...
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With the 2023 general election less than a year away, high level consultations and political campaigns are intensely going on in every nook and cranny of...
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The face of the Nigerian media was coloured with a melancholic garb on last week Thursday when a frightening news broke from its shell of hell...
In a comedy of errors, much of the comic impacts comes by way of dramatic irony in which characters acts and speak in ignorance of the...
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”Conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it”. This profound statement has been attributed to Uthman Dan Fodio, the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate...
Come, let us reason together, now that such exercise is still meaningful; before the sky gets dark and evil, and the falcon cannot hear the falconer....
“ Some things must be said, and there are times when silence become an accomplice to injustice “ Ayaan Hirsi Ali What is ridiculous that has...
The presidential poll in Nigeria, slated for early next year, is getting more and more interesting. Interesting in the sense that dozens of eminent and ‘non-eminent’...
Ndi Igbo. We know how to jinx a good thing. Perhaps, it is our seeming indomitability, boisterousness and Thanos-will that seduce us to think everyone must...
HE is not known to be frivolous. He does not hug the headlines. He is a lawyer, a senior one at that. But he is not...
The current presidential election process in Nigeria, the sixth, since the return to democratic rule in 1999, is like no other before it. It is the...
AUTHOR: Dr Ugoji Egbujo. A few days ago, President Jonathan hosted a bunch of clowns. They had gathered at his gate supposedly to wake him from...
It is a kaleidoscope – the pattern keeps mutating. Nigeria’s politics should be among the most unpredictable, intriguing and exhilarating. There are more smokescreens than actual...
Abubakar Malami is the Nigerian Minister of (in)Justice and Attorney-General of the federation. By the combination of these two powerful offices Malami could be said to...
We are there, at the crossroads. We, all of us, in lockstep and with our eyes wide open have led Nigeria to a dire straits. In...
“My brother, when are you declaring for President?” “Which President? I am already a President in my own right. I am the President of my house.”...
The presidential poll in Nigeria is gathering momentum. It is scheduled to hold early next year in the month of February all things being equal. Barring...
The narrative that tends to dominate Africa is that of a supposedly ‘dark continent’ where, perhaps, life remains very brutish, nasty and short. The temptation to...
A plus can change. Leadership fails, followership fails; society atrophies and nothing changes. Why? We keep reinventing purgatory because we are either too complacent or too...
Twitter, Instagram and Facebook facilitate our daily digital interactions among friends and relatives, far and near. Cross-fertilisation of ideas remains a democratic imperative in a free...
Many years ago, when children still read books and novels, I remember my dad used to buy us the popular Pacesetter novels, a collection of novels...
IT appeared like a thief in the night in a soulless city peopled mostly by mammon. No. There are many good people in that city but...
Pursuant to the powers to exercise the prerogative of mercy vested in the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Section 175 (1—6) of the...
‘’It’s not my problem.’’ – This was President Muhammadu Buhari’s immutable response to a question on his thoughts on the 2023 elections. Buhari has been coerced...
THE despondency in Nigeria is unsettling. And palpable. But trust Nigerians to put up a bold face. For years under the regime of the All Progressives...
Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy. But it owes this position to its enormous population, which currently stands at about 210 million, rather than its economic ingenuity....
The popular gospel singer and minister, Osinachi Nwachukwu, died recently in Abuja following alleged domestic violence. Sister Osinachi whose hit song, ‘Ekwueme’, made melodic headlines around...
The issue of Gender Based Violence is not one that many really understand. This act of battery against women by their male spouses (Woman Beaters), in...
When the history of this country is written, it will be seen that one of the worst electoral decisions ever made by the citizens of this...
A joker in poker is a wild card. It can be flipped; it can substitute and be substituted. And it can just be that jester. Nigeria’s...
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, formally declared his intention to succeed his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, last Monday. By so doing he had put speculations...
Who are those counselling Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)? They just goaded the presidential hopeful to make a...
Let us state from the onset that this is not a road we wished to travel in the journey to 2023. Why? We are invested in...
Pastor Tunde Bakare of The Citadel Global Community Church recently spoke through his hat while preaching a sermon. He told his congregation that, during the January...
The current nature of international relations, which is marked by a surge in diverse (economic, political and socio-cultural) crises, demanding the mobilization of joint capacities of...
Two months since I wrote any article. Yes, I took a break because writing couldn’t give me the healing that I really desired. Albeit, 29th March...
“I AM proud of our security forces, our men and women in uniform. Despite a myriad of security challenges, they are living up to the billing....
Nigeria’s political party dominance has often revolved around a two-pod and a tripod. Since the 1960s it has been so. In the First Republic, under a...
Nigeria also needs policies in positive discrimination in the political realm. That’s why I am a strong advocate for constitutionally enshrining power rotation at all levels...
Two unrelated developmental issues jolted me into reality a little over a week ago, March 22, to be precise. One of the events had a continental...
A vibrant Nigerian legal pundit Dele Farotimi, in his book entitled “The Imperatives of the Nigerian Revolution”, writes that: “The Nigeria ‘ruining crass’ does not live...
