By SOC Okenwa The Nigerian former President Olusegun Obasanjo could be described as an executive letter-writer of repute. Right from the Locust years of Ibrahim Babangida...
By Pius Adesanmi . . . First things first: Gulliver’s herd will destroy Gulliver. They have learnt nothing, absolutely nothing, from Jona’s herd. At the risk...
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo . . . “I was actually in that valley on March 28, 2015. I did not want Nigeria to slide into a...
By Dan Agbese . . . . President Muhammadu Buhari confessed last week that the judiciary had become his major headache in his anti-corruption battle. Shocking....
By Jude Ndukwe Two issues that have put our judiciary in the eye of the storm in recent times are the anti-corruption war and the election...
By Godwin Onyeacholem President Muhammadu Buhari deserves the sympathy of the multitude of Nigerians and foreign friends who want him to succeed, the multitude yearning...
By Reuben Abati . . . Catholic priests in Nigeria have always captured the public imagination, some of them have served in government positions, some were...
By Sunday Attah . . . . Until the recent faceoff between the Nigerian Army and Islamic Movement in Nigeria, better known as Shi’ite, not many...
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo . . . Poser: How many Hollywood movies have been made about the lives and achievements of Nigerians who have made one...
By Jude Ndukwe . . Dear Fr, I write you this letter with all sense of humility and deep respect for you and your calling as...
By Levi Obijiofor Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the governing party at the federal level, has cast himself as...
By Patrick Nwadike . . . Nobody is being witch-hunted. Those crying witch-hunting are actually the witches hunting us down. Our problem is the failed justice...
By Prince Charles Dickson Concussion is a 2015 American biographical sports medical drama film directed and written by Peter Landesman. This film is based on...
By Reuben Abati There has been so much concern about how the Federal Character principle has since its introduction in 1979, promoted mediocrity within the public...
MORE than 30 years ago, a young general swept to power in the fifth of Nigeria’s military coups since independence in 1960. The country he inherited...
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye By Wednesday, April 1, 2015 when Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC)...
By Idang Alibi Following the leave granted the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, as it were, to sing like a bird over the 2.1...
By Seyi Olu Awofeso Sensing he’s got no wrench to remove a spigot from the faucet, the world press takes turns to cast Muhamadu Buhari...
By Pius Adesanmi… I woke up this morning to a report in the media that Chief Audu Ogbeh is holding former dictator, Ibrahim Babangida and...
By Sonala Olumhense Do you operate a bank account in Nigeria? If you do, it is a safe bet that you have obtained a Bank Verification...
By Taju Tijani The universal euphoria and political triumphalism of President Mohammadu Buhari is entering its most severe storm as he tries to gain more...
By Reuben Abati Something sad has happened and is happening, and is getting worse in our society: the decline of public intellectualism. And so I ask,...
By Levi Obijiofor . . . There are so many things weighing down Nigeria that it is difficult to determine whether we are at war or...
By Jude Ndukwe . . . . Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo, former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria and former governorship aspirant in Anambra State, got...
By Isidoros Karderinis . . . For more than 40 years in the political arena of Spain, two parties had been dominating, the People’s Party and...
By Reuben Abati . . . “See what your friends are writing” “Who?” “Your fellow columnists. See how they are attacking the Minister of Interior, General...
By Prince Charles Dickson So, I went last week to buy a “reliable” made in China Casio calculator, it even had the benefit of also...
By Pastor Tunde Bakare… Isaiah43: 18 and 19 “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a...
By Reuben Abati… January 15 every year is Nigeria’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day: wreaths are laid, statements are made, soldiers, government officials and the Nigerian Legion...
By Akintokunbo Adejumo . . . I have been musing over the conundrum above for a very long time, even before this new dispensation of the...
In a recent report, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, disclosed that over 78 reruns will be held in a number of states for the Senate,...
By Greg Odogwu Unemployment is always listed as one of Nigeria’s cardinal problems. But when Julius Berger told President Muhammadu Buhari that he needed to do...
By Abimbola Adelakun In the past months, Nigerians have not only been treated to serialised scandals of the immediate past administration, we have seen so many...
By Adeola Aderounmu Sometime in 2015 under the present regime in Nigeria (what l prefer to call the APC-Buhari mandate) the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS)...
By Prince Charles Dickson “Facts are stubborn things…” John Adams So, this week, I will draw my admonition from an essay I wrote some four...
By Ayo Sogunro Nigerians have an understandable—if somewhat childish and sometimes nasty—habit of singling out a trait in one of their rulers and examining critical...
Olusegun Adeniyi . . . . We were being taken through a guided tour inside the building that was obscene in its opulence aside the several...
By Reuben Abati . . . “What a relief, my friend!” “What are you relieved about?” “It is this David Adeleke and Sophia Momodu soap opera”....
By Femi Fani-Kayode . . . Mr. President, you will recall that I wrote you an open letter on December 28th, 2015 which I sincerely hope...
By Okey Ndibe For the past several weeks, Nigerians on social media have made a big sport of what we’ve styled “Dasukigate—with an imitative eye to...
By Chido Onumah The recent violent confrontation between soldiers and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) should not come as a surprise to anyone...
By Reuben Abati What is the most compelling, most impactful and most remarkable issue in the year 2015 that has just ended? In my estimation, it...
By Michael Oluwagbemi If Nigeria had any serious opposition, the budget speech of President Buhari no matter how good intended held valuable promise for a team...
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo . . . “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” This quote is attributed to the ancient Greek...
By Femi Aribisala… Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf was the Minister of Information in the dying days of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. Nicknamed “Comical Ali” by British...
By Femi Fani-Kayode Mr. President, as one of your most loyal and faithful subjects who has nothing but the utmost respect for your person and your...
By Olusegun Adeniyi . . . When on October 22 this year the National Communications Commission (NCC) imposed an unprecedented fine of $5.2 billion (N1.04trn) on...
By Reuben Abati . . . . Christmas looks so different these days from what it was when I was growing up. It is so different...
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo. . . “Unemployment, underdevelopment and poverty everywhere in the land. Our people are living like animals; we cannot even rear our children”...
By Abrahams Akwu . . . We are a democratic nation, our laws are written, documented and above all Nigeria is signatory to international conventions on...
