By Joseph Edgar… Obj’s ‘hatred’ for the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar is quite legendary. The relationship had soured during the second term of their very...
By Reuben Abati… There has been some clarity about Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential election, with the end of the October 7 deadline set by the Independent National...
By Remi Oyeyemi… “The test of courage comes when we are in minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” – Ralph...
By Joseph Edgar… He was at once the most derided Nigerian. As soon as he announced his attested move, decamping from the crumbling APC to PDP,...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi ….. I cannot situate exactly how I first encountered this phrase: “Strange liberators”, but I think it was while studying the words and...
By Joseph Edgar… Can I borrow this from popular Artiste, FALZ, whose acerbic and punchy song and video of the same title rankled a lot of...
By Remi Oyeyemi… “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” – William Shakespeare in “Romeo And Juliet.” The...
By Jude Ndukwe… During his screening exercise before the senate prior to his confirmation as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmud Yakubu...
By SOC Okenwa… Lagos is the richest state in the entire Nigerian federation of states, 36 in number excluding the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja. It...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… Nobody likes you. You are only liked for what you bring to the table. In politics, your likability is tied to the value...
By Joseph Edgar…. I was recently on a radio programme aimed at the usual, which was to dissect and analyze the current political malady in our...
By Reuben Abati…. After two postponements, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Party’s Governorship Primary will hopefully hold at least, in Lagos today, October 2. The Godfather...
By Reuben Abati … The number of persons involved in certificate scandals under the Buhari administration may speak to something far deeper in our society, even...
By Reuben Abati… What is going on in Osun state right now is nothing short of political theatre. It is keeping us all entertained, but it...
By Joseph Edgar… One can imagine the mood in Jagaban’s camp as the results were trickling in. The shame, the blatant resistance to tom foolery and...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) was established in Nigeria in 1973. The scheme was originally meant to promote national unity; it was meant to be...
By Idris Omahi…. Jim Rohn, an American author and motivational speaker once said, “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to...
By Reuben Abati… Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance (2015-2018), Kemi Adeosun threw in her letter of resignation on Friday, September 14, to bring to a temporary...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… Among other teachings received as a student of media and communication studies, I was specifically told that information is the life wire of...
By Brendan Tobin… The last decade has witnessed a seismic shift in the way political campaigns are managed. Ten years ago, the majority of campaign workers...
Being a strong Ambode person, I must confess that these few days have been quite strenuous for me. I have watched very closely as events unfolded...
By Nyerhovwo Tonukari… I would like to start by asking why should the Federal Government still be happy in giving university lecturers grants for research? Where...
By SOC Okenwa… Early last month of August President Muhammadu Buhari was still on a ‘working’ vacation in London when the then Acting President VP Prof....
By Alon Ben-Meir …. As Turkey’s President Erdogan runs out of money, he is now, more than any time before, using religion to exploit the Balkans,...
By SKC Ogbonnia… The news making rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari is the sole candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) should be disregarded by well-meaning...
By Joseph Edgar…. It was my discreet friend, a former top official of one of the most strategic parastatals in Lagos, that forwarded a post to...
By Reuben Abati … The political primaries are scheduled to hold between this month and the next and definitely by the end of October 2018, the...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Chinese companies will takeover Zambia’s power utility ZESCO and the Airport. Your country is next! Once upon a time, an African country...
By Omoshola Deji…. After about thirty years of stern military rule, Nigeria re-embraced democracy in 1999 and five elections have produced Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo (two term),...
Ade is my friend. He lives in the next estate and got introduced to me by a mutual friend, Niyi. The enthusiasm was real, the energy...
By Reuben Abati … President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly declared in China, last Sunday, that he believes in the idea of free and fair elections, and that...
By Isah Odaudu… The Uche Secondus led National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the PDP caucus of the National Assembly held...
By Ekene Odigwe…. The British Prime Minister, Theresa May’s poverty remark about Nigeria sparked a conversation of conflicting views across the country, but the fact remains...
By Adebayo Raphael…. Since the beginning of Nigeria’s fourth republic in 1999, the present administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by President Muhammadu Buhari...
By SOC Okenwa… Penultimate weekend, prior to the Sallah muslim festivities, President Muhammadu Buhari returned to the country after spending almost two weeks in London on...
By Uchegbulam Eleazer Ngozi… In line with the United Nation’s resolution in Paris concerning Climate Change, the whole world has embarked on an intensive movement to...
By Reuben Abati…. It is unfortunate that the most important statement made so far at the on-going Annual Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association, an outright...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi…. Merit, taken objectively, is ‘something earned, something owed to a person. Taken subjectively, merit is the right of a person to his earning...
By Joseph Edgar…. The main opposition party has come out to state categorically that it is not looking at the possibility of pushing a consensus candidate...
Open Letter To Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, The National Leader Of Our Great Party APC, On The Agitations Of Surulerians On 5th Term Agenda Of Hon...
By SKC Ogbonnia…. In a widely celebrated essay, I pity Tinubu, I wrote that, “if dynamic opposition is the live-wire of a democracy, it is very...
By Joseph Edgar… It was our famous former President Mr. Obasanjo who threw the third leg option into the fore on the journey towards 2019. We...
“Baba is back, we thank God” “You have started your mischief again. Baba said he will be back in two weeks, and he is back, so...
By Reuben Abati… The week that just passed will for long be remembered as perhaps the most momentous week in the history of the Muhammadu Buhari...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… It is a common knowledge that the National Water Resources Bill is before the Nigerian Upper Legislative Assembly-the Senate. But what is uncertain...
By Achilleus Uchegbu…. The title of this are not my words. They were words that came directly from the mouth of Professor Itse Sagay, a learned...
By Alon Ben-Meir….. The nearly three months of demonstrations by Palestinians along the Israel-Gaza border under the banner of the “March of Return”, which turned violent...
By Alkali Danjuma Almost six months after President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Mr. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar as the head of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), tempers that...
By SOC Okenwa… Like millions of Nigerians in the Diaspora I woke up last Wednesday morning and started my day by going online to keep abreast...
By SKC Ogbonnia… Many Nigerians have short memory and can easily embrace a sinner as a saint without a rethink. Yesterday, August 7, 2018, there was...
