By Pius Adesanmi Michael Woods, a columnist with the local Ottawa newspaper, MetroNews, starts his op-ed column of Wednesday October 21, 2015 thus: “Building a cabinet...
By Reuben Abati The democratic experience in Nigeria has definitely been a continuing learning curve, and the more lessons we learn at various active centres: people,...
By George Amuna . . . These are interesting times. Pariahs of yore are being canonised as saints. The price is affordable. All that is needed...
By Adekoya Boladale . . . Don’t tell me you did not miss the days when we took turn to pass insults on the maladministration of...
By Frisky Larr The thesis suggested by the title of this essay will not come as a surprise to any political observer within the Nigerian experimental...
By Peter Claver Oparah . . . For those who have sentenced themselves to inconsolable wailing since Presudent Buhari and APC defeated former President Jonathan and...
By Reuben Abati . . . . I have tried delaying the writing of this piece in the honest expectation that someone probably misquoted Chief E.K....
By Pius Adesanmi . . . One regrettable detail about the ritual of national unserious which passed for Senate confirmation hearings is that Senators who would...
By Okey Ndibe . . . Forget what the objective facts are, former Governor Diepreye Solomon Peter (DSP) Alamieyeseigha, who died last week at 62 years,...
By Idang Alibi . . . So far, I have recorded ten good things and five bad ones that Buhari has done in his five-month old...
By Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu … . The late social crusader, Fela Anikulapo Kuti has turned out to be the veritable prophet who saw tomorrow. In his...
By Son Gyoh … . As a long time admirer of Bishop Kukah, I had to read the presentation he made at the Convent Centre Lagos,...
By Dele Momodu … . Fellow Nigerians, please take this piece as a rhetorical question that requires no answer. I’ve always said that an average Nigerian...
By Pat Utomi The news came in trickles. First it was said a Nigerian may have been lost in the stampede at a Holy site during...
By Ikechukwu Amaechi… . When President Muhammadu Buhari pulled out his kinsman, Lawal Daura, from retirement to head the Department of State Services (DSS), it did...
By Matthew Kukah … . Being the full text of a lecture delivered by Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto at the Platform, Covenant Centre,...
By Jude Ndukwe The recent revelation by the military that “some prominent individuals and political groups who hail from Borno State in particular and the North...
By Adeola Aderounmu … . Last week l lamented the crawling nature of Nigeria as an independent country at 55. It was a mixed reaction on...
By Okey Ndibe … . Last week, when he finally unveiled a partial list of his proposed cabinet, President Muhammadu Buhari also revealed – even if...
By Dele Momodu … Fellow Nigerians, the story you are about to read is the stuff of fiction. Or better put, it is like a play...
By Etcetera … Is Nigeria getting worse? That is a very provocative question. I have found that most people that hate Nigeria are very eager to...
By Azu Ishiekwene … Listening to President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday was almost like going back 31 years. A lot has changed since then, yet so much...
By Segun Adeniyi … It is now more than six months since President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in a contest whose outcome was not challenged by...
By Idang Alibi As a person, I hate corruption utterly and wish that it should be rooted out completely from our society because of the harm...
By Michael Oluwagbemi … Reading about the escapade of Nigeria’s dignitaries at the annual festival of talk and do-nothing at the United Nations General Assembly held...
By Pius Adesanmi … Ottawa. Airport. In the lounge. I make a rich selection from the buffet and settle approvingly on a French wine. It’s still...
Friends and fans have pestered me lately with one or two questions. What do you think about the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki for alleged...
By Jude Ndukwe … Prior to the March 28 presidential election and shortly after it just before the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29,...
By Prince Charles Dickson … Throughout last week, we were treated to the “telemundo” featuring the dramatis personae of a certain Mr. Saraki, President of the...
By Pius Adesanmi… President Buhari must send a bouquet of flowers to His Royal Highness Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Emir of Kano. When you miss a side...
By Femi Fani Kayode … “Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known...
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu … There is the matter among the military forces called esprit de corps; that is, the feeling and sharing of loyalty and...
Niran Adedokun It is true that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has just spent a negligible four of its 48 months term. I understand that this...
By Olakunle Abimbola Lores, on the Russian Bolshevik revolution of October 1917, ooze with revolution and counter-revolution elements, resulting in massive revolutionary purges. What would chroniclers...
By Dele Agekameh On Thursday, October 2, 2014, I was in the ancient town of Ile-Ife to attend the wake keep of Olori Beatrice Omosigho Adedapo...
By Femi Fani-Kayode … ”Israel will no longer exist in 25 years”- Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei , the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic...
By Etcetera Why do Nigerian Presidents so often fail to make quality appointments? Unlike beauty, quality does not lie in the eyes of the beholder. Every...
By Levi Obijiofor… President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive last week that the number and size of Nigeria’s foreign missions should be reviewed is timely. It is also...
By Pius Adesanmi Congratulations to Pastors T.B. Joshua and Enoch Adeboye on the purchase of their brand new $60-million Gulfstream luxury private jets – reported on...
By Okey Ndibe … One’s first reaction on reading some newspaper headlines out of Nigeria is one of incredulity. It simply can’t be true, one declares....
By Adamu Abubakar … “He is a stabilizer and a mobilizer and a very humble and true democrat who tackles issues dispassionately. Not only did Femi...
The piece “Buhari Beware of Tinubu” in the September 2 edition of The Sun newspaper comes from the depleting arsenal of the forlorn amalgamation known as...
The Presidential footprint that has emerged is that of a man who is determined to lead by example, particularly in the areas of national security and...
By Femi Aribisala … It is time to admit it. Electing Buhari as president was a big national blunder. After the 2015 election, I predicted on...
Nigeria has surprisingly little idea of what it is fighting against How many times can one man die? At least four, in the case of Abubakar...
By Eric Teniola … In seizing power from General Gowon (80),the then Military ruler, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed (1938-76) told the nation on July 30 1975...
By Sonala Olumhense … Feeling taller than a tree, Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta said last week: “Our young people have once again shown that they are...
“I tried to build an igloo out of orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn’t have an eskimo...
By Remi Oyeyemi … “If any of my associates or party members is indicted of corruption, they cannot escape justice. There is not going to be...
We often use benchmarks as measures of progress. ‘How is your favourite football team doing at the beginning of this season?’ ‘How many words does your...
