Farouk Martins Aresa… If you want to know the future of a country, look at youth’s life today. Pampered Leaders on scholarships and welfare throughout their...
By Joseph Edgar… The pressure on the ruling party is palpable. The pressure is leading to all sort of coalescing in camps and realignment of forces...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, left Nigeria with harsh words. While the Nigerians leadership was still ruminating his unkind words, he returned to the...
By Etaghene Edirin… In the course of my career as a journalist, I see and hear a lot that I cannot repeat in public. As a...
By Reuben Abati “I do not enjoy speaking to you this bluntly when you have been gracious enough to invite me here…” – Bill Gates. Mr....
By Funmilola Ajala … Nothing suggests something unusual is in the offing. It appears all too perfect. Except that my female colleague (let me go by...
By Joseph Edgar… He has been reported to allege that some elements within the Army have been in unholy partnership with those killing and maiming our...
By Reuben Abati… I was in Morocco recently, about 20 years after I last visited Timbuktu, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat and Laayoune. I was quite impressed to...
By Jude Ndukwe… When on Saturday, March 24, 2018, Gen T.Y. Danjuma sent out a shrill cry to Nigerians using the exalted pedestal of the Taraba...
By Churchill Okonkwo… That paranoia and disappointing call to arms by TY Danjuma for Nigerians to rise up and slaughter themselves is a pointer that the...
BY Jerome-Mario Utomi?.. It is a deep-seated teaching within the religious circle that for a man to exist, comprehend, exercise and act; he must depend on...
DAPCHI GIRLS: Conspiracy theory gone too far By Joseph Edgar… Nigerians have been buffeted by hardship into a state of deliriousness, such that conspiracy theories are...
In Lagos, there are lagoons, fresh and brackish water bodies everywhere that you would expect potable water to be plentiful for Lagosians. Nope! Instead, there is...
Let me acknowledge without any reservation whatsoever, that I am honored by the invitation to deliver this year’s convocation lecture from an outstanding institution named after...
By SOC Okenwa… When the former President Goodluck Jonathan was in the saddle in Aso Villa the Boko Haram (BH) armed rebellion cum terrorism was flourishing...
By Reuben Abati… President Muhammadu Buhari’s 12th hour decision to snub the African Union Extra-ordinary summit on the endorsement of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu The expression of leadership in the current dispensation, from local government levels up to the federal government level, simply say one thing –that...
By Victor Terhemba… A little over two years ago, I wrote a short article on the fallacy of feminism; I never thought I would ever have...
By Louis Odion… It was typical of punctilious Godwin Obaseki to assume that mere appeal to reason – this pious invocation of the spirit of good...
By Reuben Abati… Professor Wole Soyinka was keynote speaker at the maiden annual lecture of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism held in Lagos...
By Joseph Edgar… What does he represent to the national body politic? This is the question and, at first glance, would be easy to answer. But...
By; Jerome-Mario Utomi… As the nation races toward 2019 general election, many strange things are happening daily in our political space; some heartening and others, undesirable....
By Femi Fani Kayode… “Labelling the attackers as Fulani is wrong. Fulani people are peaceful and live in harmony with other ethnicities. To call the killer...
By Ayo Lijadu… Since the government seems to have a mental block and appear to be at sea with regards to proffering a lasting and effective...
By Joseph Edgar… He remains a very good looking gentleman with his unique visage. The silver hair thinning to the point you can see his head...
BY Jaye Gaskia… Whenever the question of restructuring and devolution of powers have been raised by the contending factions and fractions of Nigeria’s prodigal ruling class,...
By Reuben Abati… The government of Lagos state seems to be currently in the eye of the storm over its introduction of a law, a property...
By; Jerome-Mario Utomi Communication, in the words of Grunig and Hunt (1984), is the biggest tool mankind has as a potential way of overcoming difficulties. But...
By SOC Okenwa… In every modern democracy in the world freedom of expression is one of the fundamental cardinal principles enshrined in the supreme laws of...
By Joseph Edgar… There has been a lot of hue and cry over the recent increase in Land Use Charges by the Lagos State Government. They...
By Adebayo Raphael… Nigeria is speedily sliding into a democratic dictatorship. All indices right now are working against the sustenance of democratic principles in the country....
By Joseph Edgar… I heard this piece of news yesterday from a colleague but did not dwell on it until I now happened on it in...
By Louis Odion… A dialogue imaginatively ascribed to what would ordinarily pass as an innocuous photograph from a routine official event opens perhaps the best aperture...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi…. Looking at the ripple reactions that greeted the hate speech bill currently before the Nigerian senate; one will but agree with the words...
By Reuben Abati… The second wave of democratization in Africa, beginning in the 80s, and the gradual establishment of democracy as the new normal in the...
By Dele Momodu… “So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of...
By CharlyBoy… I have encountered a Radical Awakening. An Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself; that consciousness has shifted back to its original nature. Three...
By Ben Murray-Bruce… Transparency International (TI) revealed last Wednesday that corruption in Nigeria is now worse under President Muhammadu Buhari than it was before he took...
By Churchill Okonkwo…. As President Buhari prepares to tell Nigerians that he will be standing for re-election in 2019, he was confronted by Nemesis, a spirit...
By Tony Ogunlowo… The recent kidnapping of more than another 100 girls from the Government Girls Science Technical College in Dapchi, Kobe state shows that the...
By Reuben Abati …. Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look...
By SOC Okenwa… When President Muhammadu Buhari was campaigning in 2015, after three failed consecutive attempts, to be elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria...
By Joseph Edgar… I have never had the pleasure of meeting this titan and must confess that I would rather not savour the pleasure. For she...
Nigeria is today a nation broken. Broken along ethnic, religious, political and economic lines which makes it virtually impossible to build a robust consensus that could...
By Joseph Edgar… You know they say until it hits you, you never feel it. Today, thousands of parents the nation all over having children about...
By Remi Oyeyemi ““The truth is, if you want to kill me and I have a chance first, I will kill you, or you do want...
By Joseph Edgar The incredulity of Big Brother continues to dismay not only me but thousands of concerned Nigerians. The other day a newspaper did an...
By Reuben Abati…. To expand the democratic space in Nigeria and to ensure the legitimacy and stability of our democratic process, the rule of law, perhaps...
By; Jerome-Mario Utomi… The Eko Convention Centre, Lagos, venue of the meeting was lavishly decorated to impress, and it did impressed. The participants were corporately kitted;...
The news has just hit that this handsome scion of the Obanikoro family is berthing in APC. Just like his father, he has moved his baggage...
