By Pius Adesanmi… Increasingly, you hear a segment of the commentariat scream that restructuring in Nigeria is a complex set of issues and problems that should...
By Wole Soyinka… Mayday, uttered three times, is the distress call “used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners”. Long before its adoption...
By Joseph Edgar… Democracy is all about the people, popular will and there is really nothing the powers that be can do about it. The People...
By Atiku Abubakar… To friends of Nigeria here present, I appreciate your friendship and it is my strong desire that our collective wish to see Nigeria...
By SOC Okenwa… Last week a bizzare news from Nigeria made headlines internationally online. Suspected thugs (including Prince Enayemo, Lucky Okomu, Blessing Edjeke, Peter Orede and...
By Kingsley Kemepade… Life has been described as a rat race; a race for survival or pursuit of happiness in which only a few get close....
By Joseph Edgar… This is a season of anomie. A season where everything goes, where we realise with sad reflection that we are now firmly in...
By Tayo Ademola…. Every now and then many Nigerians have been killed in South Africa. Over 117 innocent Nigerians in the last two years have been...
By Reuben Abati… A strong indication of both the quality and failure of politics in Nigeria, as the people look forward to the next general elections...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… Each time I ponder over the marriage of two unwilling brides who had no say in their forceful union- amalgamation of the northern...
By Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu… “Gani Fawehinmi, Nigeria’s conscience, dies at 71”, read The Guardian’s apt front-page headline. In less than a decade after his death, Gani’s...
By Etaghene Edirin… Few days back, a notable Lagos-based lawyer, Festus Keyamo was appointed as the spokesman of the Buhari campaign team. This, also a few...
It is by now certain, ceteris paribus, that the names of President Muhammadu Buhari and his deputy, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, will be on the ballot when Nigerians...
By Farooq A. Kperogi… A president is supposed to be a country’s chief salesperson, biggest motivator, uniter-in-chief, and most enthusiastic fan. President Muhammadu Buhari, unfortunately, is...
By Alkali Danjuma…. As the killings in Nigeria, by what President Buhari told Arch Bishop of Canterbury in London to be perpetrated by militias trained by...
By SOC Okenwa… Penultimate week the Rainbow nation in particular and the world in general were treated to the melancholic news about the demise of the...
By Remi Oyeyemi… My friend and colleague, Sam Omatseye, gave a birthday gift to the indefatigable Pa Ayo Adebanjo on the occasion of his 90th birthday....
By Victor Terhemba …. I am young man under 30, I struggle everyday just to get by. Everyday I work hard using my intellectual ability and...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… When we were growing up it was a common wish that our children would do better and become more prosperous that we...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… For the 2030 sustainable agenda to succeed, says the United Nation, partnership and collaboration must be given a disciplined attention. This world body...
By Louis Odion… His guttural voice oozes the geniality only long practice at the game could confer. Excitement over the coming harvest would, in fact, seem...
By Reuben Abati… His Lordship Justice Binta Nyako at the Federal High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory last Friday, gave an instructive, landmark judgment...
By Comrade Isa Tijani… My initial reaction when somebody called my attention to Mustapha Shehu’s write up which appeared in some media, including the Daily Trust...
By Mustapha Shehu… Nothing buttresses the belief, that a greater aspect of journalism in Nigeria is compromised, than the brouhaha over the appointment, in January, of...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… The nation’s political terrain is tensed up with intrigues as the gale of declaration for different political interest/positions daily resonates on our political...
By Joseph Edgar… He speaks of common sense, regularly sending out tweets on social media and well-rehearsed positions regaling us with what was once thought of...
By Joseph Edgar… So the dance has formally started. The President has declared his intention to seek a second term on the eve of his departure...
By Tony Ogunlowo…. The possibility of another World war is imminent if the crisis in Syria is allowed to spiral out of control: following last week’s...
By SOC Okenwa… The Nigerian Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, is a big man of big dreams in a wasted nation where true dreams are long...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Why African gold cannot back African currencies? What African scholars did not learn in London School of Economics, Wharton School and others...
By Steve Nwosu… A few hours after he was inaugurated as US President on January 20, 2017, Donald Trump Declared that he would seek re-election in...
By Mike Ozehkome… THE DECLARATION After waiting for so long to declare his ambition for a second term, perhaps, waiting for Allah’s permission, or for the...
By Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu… It was past 2pm yesterday and I was at Zenith Bank Okota Branch to submit a document prepared on my company letterhead....
By Femi Adesina…. There are two options for those in contention for the presidency in 2019: run, or run away. Now that President Muhammadu Buhari has...
By Reuben Abati… When friends, family and political associates gather in Ijebu-Ogbo, Ogun state today, to celebrate the 90th birthday of Chief Ayo Adebanjo, they will...
By Felix Oboagwina… Your Excellency, On behalf of our state’s estimated 20 million residents, let me say congratulations on a safe and uneventful trip in and...
By Jerome- Mario Utomi… Scandal in the words of Paul Glenn is a needless word or deed which does harm to those who hear or observe...
By Bayo Oluwasanmi… I’m not a politician. I’m a journalist. I see my power coming through my writings. A political party is about ideology. The ideology...
By Joseph Edgar… My friend when told that his mother was a witch causing his joblessness almost 20 years after graduation retorted by saying, ‘’what do...
By Tony Ogunlowo… Just as Africa is busy clearing its stables of despotic Presidents-for-life, China and Russia are busy installing their own. President Vladimer Putin has...
Dear Sir, I am writing you today to let you know that it was depressing to read the statement accredited to you that the Senator Ike...
By Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu… Times have changed in Nigeria and investigative journalism, once the talisman that freed truth from darkness, is now hardly at work. But...
By Benjamin Ugbana… Perhaps, I am one of the very few who aren’t flabbergasted at the news of Lagos state having successfully registered 24,465 candidates for...
By Etaghene Edirin… As a young graduate who had just concluded the compulsory National Youth Service Corps scheme in Jos, Plateau State, I witnessed firsthand, the...
By SOC Okenwa… It appears from the look of things as the general elections draw nearer that we are in a ‘season’ of looting and looters...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… One thought that Nigeria had gotten past the stage where the Federal government pronounces accused persons guilty even before they are found guilty...
By Reuben Abati… Less than a year to the next general elections in Nigeria, the biggest deficit in the political process leading to that moment is...
By Festus Okotimi…. Way down south where bananas grow, A grasshopper stepped on an elephant’s toe The elephant said, with tears in his eyes, “Go pick...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi?.. In Nigeria, like in other countries of the world, it is a moral duty that citizens should reinforce and not undermine the government...
By Olakunle Olawole…/ I went to a bed-bug riddled school around Yaba (Yabatech) whose unofficial mandate is to make docile the crop of young people who...
