OPINION: ‘Keeping Vigil Over This Democracy’
By Martins Oloja
The 2019 general election is barely five months away. Though the campaigns are yet to begin in earnest, key issues...
APC Primaries: NWC Annuls Lagos Governorship Poll
The All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship primary in Lagos state has been cancelled.
National Working Committee (NWC) panel for the poll led by former Cross...
How Tunde Ayeni, Lagos Business Magnate, Secured Multi-Billion Naira Loan To Revival Moribund Government-Owned...
…How government’s refusal to honour contractual agreements ran him into monumental debt
By Obafemi Ajayi
It wouldn’t be hyperbolic to say that Dr. Tunde Ayeni has...
VIEWPOINT: Thoughts On A Tambuwal Presidency
By Okey Ikechukwu
Prince Kasim Afegbu`s intervention on this page last week threw up some interesting aspects of the unfolding drama around the 2019 presidency,...
OPINION: Before Buhari Tampers With Press Freedom Again
By Martins Oloja
Even if we encourage ourselves by wishing for peaceful coverage of the 2019 election processes, as journalists, there are warning signals...
OPINION: Watch Out Trump, China Is Taking Africa From Under Your Nose
By David A. Andelman
ATLANTA, United States of America, August 13, 2018/ -- Look out Donald Trump, while you're not watching, China is quietly...
VIEWPOINT: Ekiti And The Drama Of Power
By Dare Babarinsa
At least Kayode Fayemi knows how to be a governor. Yes, we have had governors in Ekiti; the dignified Niyi Adebayo, the...
OPINION: Wazirin Atiku Abubakar And The Renaissance Of Restructuring
By Benjamin Ogueri Enwerem
3 Years of APC is a Millennium just too long to bear.
It is excruciatingly hard to imagine that the collective patience...
DSO Nigeria: Beyond Devil’s Advocates
By Hamid Hendrix
Freedom without responsibility continues to pose a great challenge to the realization of the full potentials of our democratic dispensation and it...
PACAC’s 2018 African Anti-Corruption Day: A Thumb Up For Mr. President
By Ibrahim L. Dan-Halilu
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) on Wednesday, July 11 celebrated the first African Anti-Corruption Day in Abuja with a...
PERSPECTIVE: How Edo Deputy Governor Breathed Life Into Baby Mercy
By Austin Otas-Osegbe
‘’Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.’’
The above scriptures aptly describe the mood of Mr. and Mrs....
RESEARCH: “The World’s Financial Crisis”- The Printing Press Solution”
By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
History is repeating itself with a human desire to control or rule the world by any means. This obsession has created...
OPINION: Bill Gates, I Found Your Type Of Man And He’s 62 Today!
By John Adenekan
World's second richest man, Bill Gates gave a damning verdict on the execution of the Economic Recovery Growth Plan (ERGP) of the...
OPINION: Chibok And Dapchi Girls: The Whoredom Of Karma
By Sufuyan Ojeifo
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, and second, as farce. -Karl Marx
On Monday, February 19, 2018, Boko Haram insurgents invaded Government Girls...
OPINION: The Last Auction…
By Diipo Fagunwa
An Auction happened in the years of old, on a day that only the rich would be proud to attend, and the...
VIEWPOINT: EFCC And The Burden Of Credibility
By Sule Yakubu
Nigeria`s most vocal and most visible anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is breaking new grounds in what is...
American Sh*thole
By Dayo Olopade
U.S. President Donald Trump’s reported comments maligning the people of African nations were a foreseeable outburst from a man addicted to the...
Updated: Basheer Lado’s Second Coming
By Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman
I recall that he belonged to the twelve original senators who were the pro-All Progressives Congress arrowheads that started the APC movement...
Transparency Is Key To Corruption-free Infrastructure In Africa
By Chris Heathcote
The first Regional Roundtable on Infrastructure Governance was held in Cape Town at the beginning of November. Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency...
PERSPECTIVE: Boko Haram Conflict Enters Counterinsurgency Phase As Nigeria Erects “Fortresses”
By Jacob Zenn
The latest news from northeastern Nigeria is that the Nigerian army will erect fortresses around the region’s larger towns to prevent Boko...
VIEWPOINT: Biafra And Kanu, A Possible End Foretold
By Omoshola Deji
Nigerian ethnic groups are enduring the pains, rather than enjoying the gains of unity. From 1960 to date, successive governments, both the...
OPINION: Olusegun Mimiko, An Enigma At 63
By Kayode Akinmade
It is not very often that a state helmsman gets more popular after office, certainly not in this clime. But that is...
OPINION: Nigerian Economic Recovery Through Industrialization And Diversification By Public And Private Sector Synergy
By Ehiedu Iweriebor/APO/
NEW YORK, The current economic crisis and recession in Nigeria has brought to the fore what is already known: that the existent...
Calming Frayed Nerves After The Storm Of Quit Notice(s)
By Idowu Samuel
It sounds like an irony, but diplomats and expatriates who serve or work in Nigeria often profess uncanny love for the...
OPINION: Ambode’s Wife And The Chaplain: The Objectivity Test
By Toks Oguntuga
I doubt if there is anyone in Nigeria who has not heard of the sack of the Chaplain of Chapel of
Christ the...
View From Abroad: Chibok Release And Boko Haram’s Strategy
By Amb. John Campbell
Boko Haram’s release of eighty-two girls to the Nigerian government appears to be part of its strategy to maximize the value...
Awo: Thirty Years After And The True Measure Of A Man
By Rotimi Opeyeoluwa
I don’t want funeral songs to be sung at my funeral because I won’t die. I will (only) change my life and...
OPINION: Why We Are Hopeful About Improving Health In Africa
By Aliko Dangote and Bill Gates
This week, more than 138,000 vaccinators will fan out across five African countries in the Lake Chad area in...
OPINION: DINO D BRAVO!! Dino Melaye: The Making Of A Brand
By Reuben Abati
It is a sign of the times, and a tragedy that the most popular Senator in the Nigerian National Assembly at this...
VIEWS FROM ABROAD: Nigeria’s Abuja Airport Challenge Shows Why African Countries Need To Improve...
By Professor Calestous Juma
In a remarkable feat of engineering earlier this month, Glasgow Airport‘s runway was resurfaced with new high-tech material, all at night...
OPINION: Buhari Administration, Is Patronage Undermining Change?
By Omoshola Deji
As the four year mandate Nigerians offered President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) approaches half time, mix reactions are trailing the performance of his...
OPINION: Magu, EFCC Chairmanship And Senate Confirmation
By Michael Jegede
I am not a lawyer, and so, I cannot not speak with authority on issues of law. But there are certain issues...
VIEWPOINT: How French’s Next Presidential Election Can Modify France/Africa Relations?
By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
From the slavery that lasted a little more than four centuries, to the colonization and independence tailored to sculptor African countries,...
OPINION: Nigeria: Time To Domesticate United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250
By Lawal Rafiu Adeniran
On the 9th December 2015, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2250. This is the first Resolution that deals with...
OPINION: Travails Of Apostle Suleman And Inciting Words Of Sultan Of Sokoto
By Femi Fani-Kayode
Nothing sums up the dangerous way in which the DSS is handling the Apostle Johnson Suleman affair better than the words of...
OPINION: Kidnapping: Is Capital Punishment A Deterrent?
By Mufutau Egberongbe
Yes, Lagos is more than a country if it is to be compared with some countries in Africa. The Gambia is just...
Which Economic And Development Policy’s Should Africa Pursue To Ensure Its Survival Path?
By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
Africa has a very serious economic identity problem. When compared to Asia, the continent has made much less progress. China, India,...
PERSPECTIVE: Africa – An Imminent Financial Peril ?
The Nigeria case, Former Nigerian late President Sani Abacha had an estimated sum of funds deposited in Europeans banks, American banks and other global...
Our Christmas Wish List
By Funk Egbemode
I was all set to write something hard and political until Maupe Ogun reviewed my back page in New Telegraph on Channels...
PMB At 74: Peace Shuttle In Birthday Week
By Femi Adesina
What a helluva week for a man who turns 74 today. In one day, in his birthday week, he flew from Abuja...
On Louis Odion’s Poorly Executed Hatchet Job On Governor Mimiko
By Imefv Efuda
The piece by Louis Odion is emblematic of the new low to which journalism has fallen in Nigeria. This is a piece...
Sacking Of Over 200 Staff Of Federal University Dutsinma: Matters Arising
By Jacob Onjewu Dickson
The unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable as the country must remain one indivisible country and progress on that threshold to become...
Profile of Sarkin Yaki, Late Lt. Col. Muhammad Abu Ali
Hardly has a story of bravery evoked such passion in recent times amongst Nigerians as is being told of the Late Lt. Col. Muhammed...
My Lord, Tell Me Where To Keep Your Bribe?
By Niyi Osundare
A poem by the renowned Nigerian poet
My Lord
Please tell me where to keep your bribe?
Do I drop it in your venerable chambers
Or...
The Goons In The Other Room
By Hon. Segun Olulade
There exist a large room in the All Progressives Congress (APC) province; the room is large enough to accommodate the hopes...
The Unspiritual Side Of Aso Villa: A Reply To Reuben Abati
By Femi Adesina
Let me begin with two clarifications. Aso Villa is not my home, I am just passing through. Even this world is nobody’s...
VIEWPOINT: A Face Of Nigerian Corruption
By Amb. John Campbell
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen U.S. dollar bank accounts that former Nigerian First Lady Patience Jonathan claims...
The Zamfara State Killing Field
By Olusegun Adeniyi
Nigeria is currently engulfed in a major crisis of intergroup relations that is rooted in the politics of economic survival but which...
West Africa Single Currency: Lesson From European Single Currency
By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
Western Africa states which are represented by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a commission comprised of countries of 15...
VIEWPOINT: The Liberating Power Of BREXIT
By Isidoros Karderinis
The referendum of June 23, 2016 regarding Britain’s remain at or exit from the European Union, through its subversive BREXIT result...
PERSPECTIVE: Economic Recession And Path To Nigeria’s Genuine Rediscovery
By Idowu Samuel
Nigerians over the years had been treated to spirit breaking economic phrases often coined by experts and authorities in their attempts to...
PERSPECTIVE: Don’t Let Yourself or Your Enterprise Get Kidnapped Online!
By Lolu Onabule esq.
Cybercrime rates are at an all-time high in Nigeria and world over. Our threat landscape continues to expand. One of the...
Law Review Series: Provocation As A Mitigating Element In Murder Cases
By Collins Ogonnaya ARIKOR
In any jurisdiction during the course of a criminal trial, an accused person may claim that a certain set of facts...
State Of Osun And The Hijab Politics: The Rule Of Law Must Be Protected
By Honourable Olumuyiwa Wahab Jimoh
I have followed the unfolding but unfortunate drama in state of Osun schools over the Rulings of a Court on...
OPINION- Ambode: A Humanist And Pragmatist At 53
By Habib Aruna
During the thick of the governorship campaign in 2015, the then candidate of the All Progressive Congress in Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode,...
When Bell Rings Twice
By Sam Omatseye
Not many thought the first year of Muhammadu Buhari would look like this. The price of pump price at 145, the naira...
Buhari: Beyond The Iron And Steel
By Femi Adesina
They were called the unsmiling duo. In his first incarnation as Nigerian leader, the then Major General Muhammadu Buhari was paired with...
Reflections! Cuba: Lessons Of Social Inclusiveness, Resilience
By Olumuyiwa Jimoh
In 1958 Cuba then under the leadership of corrupt and selfish oligarchs experienced a deep impoverishment and emasculation of her citizenry, just...
Taking Us For A N36.5m Ride To Hell
By Azu Ishiekwene
For all that is ripe and fit to pluck, our senators think the most concerning thing now is how to find themselves...
PERSPECTIVE: Drones Over Malta?
By Joseph Cachia
“Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it's one of the least 'brave' or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. It's...
On Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Attack On INEC Chairman
By Jacob Dosunmu
It is a known fact that no democracy survives without a conscious well organized opposition party, suffice to say there is need...
Ocholi: Too Late To Stop Believing
By Femi Adesina
Let's be honest with ourselves. When some baffling things happen, we question God, if not verbally, at least, in our hearts. But...
OPINION: Rivers: Before Every One Is Killed
By Ibrahim Modibbo
I have no doubt in my mind that Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers state is a tragic hero. Taking full control of...
PERSPECTIVE: FOREX Debate: Ifeanyi Ubah’s Economic/Financial Intervention – Volume I
By Ifeanyi Ubah
This Media Guidance Note has become necessary to ensure that the media capture in proper context the views I am expressing on...
Governor Wike, INEC And Burden Of Conscience
By Felix Balogun
It will do our Democratic experience a whole lot good if concerted efforts are made not only to raise caution against surreptitious...
OPINION: Between Sambo Dasuki, EFCC And DSS
By Abdulkadir Umar
The way and manner with which the case between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against Col. Sambo Dasuki on one...
Buhari’s Battle Against Grex Venalium
By Chris Okotie
These, certainly, are not the best of times for the grex venalium (the venal crowd), popularly known by ordinary Nigerians as treasury...
January 15: Where We Came From
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...
What’s Going On In Abuja?
By Dele Momodu
Fellow Nigerians, I don’t know how many of you feel the way I feel but some things are not very clear to...
PERSPECTIVE: The Appeal Court Verdict On Abia Guber Poll
By Michael Jegede
On Thursday, December 31, 2015, the Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri, nullified the election of Okezie Ikpeazu of Peoples Democratic Party...
Open Letter To President Muhammadu Buhari On Soldier’s Welfare
DEAR MR PRESIDENT: A PROMISE IS DEBT
Dear Mr President,
We the members of ‘Lets talk Nigeria’ (LTN) - a group of young professionals - write...
“Our People Are Running Short Of Food Supply, Water…” Madagali Residents Cry Out
By Tom Garba, Yola
Madagali the last of Adamawa's troubled territories under occupation of Boko Haram sect to be liberated by the military, in March,...
OPINION: May We Ask, Your Honour, How Much Would This Buffoonery Cost Us?
“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”
Samuel Butler
By Joseph Cachia
Most Maltese are unaware of the heavy price that we have...
PERSPECTIVE: Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and His Detractors
By Ebenezer Omodu
The least you should do when accusing someone of an impropriety is to get proof and evidence of the said misdeed. Conjuring...
OPINION: Buhari And Minister Controversy – Matters Arising
By Lolu Onabule
It is not clear whether the Senate is bent on requiring the President to present himself for screening should he go ahead...
Perspective: Power Sector Reform, Many Questions Dr. Godknows Ighali Needs To Answer
By Sanya Olujobi
There have been many questions that run through my mind just like every other Nigerians with the major achievements recorded and recently...
OPINION: Buhari And The Single Treasury Account
By Michael Jegede
Since his assumption of office on May 29 this year, President Muhammadu Buhari, PMB has not left anyone in doubt that he...
OPINION: Martins Babale: Of Loyalty And Visionary Leadership In Adamawa
By Tom Garba, Yola
Permit me to borrow the words of John Mason "Humility is a vitreous of a great leader grafted in the vision...
100 Days In Office: Tambuwal’s Progressive Scorecard
By Imam Imam- When former Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, was sworn-in as Governor of Sokoto State on May 29, attention...
NDDC Auditor’s Report: Matters Arising
By Dauda Bala
The recent controversial 2008 – 2012 report of the Auditor General of the Federation (AGF) on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)...
OPINION: Sahara Reporters’ Suspicious Motives For Attacking Saraki, In Defense of Truth
By Bamikole Omishore
On Thursday, August 6th, 2015, SaharaReporters published a totally fabricated report entitled: "Nigeria's Senate President Saraki Lied In His Official Election Forms"...
PERSPECTIVE: The Centenary City Project and Free Zone Disparity in Nigeria
By Hassan M. Bello
The recent shameful ranting by some failed politicians led by Dr. Cairo Ojougboh against the Centenary City Project and their caustic...
Buhari’s ‘Change’: The Place Of Women, Children, President’s Wife
By Rukkayat Aminu
The change mantra of the All progressives congress at the 2015 general election may have indeed earned president Muhammadu Buhari and his...
Understanding The Centenary City Project
By Ike Michaels Odenigwe, Jr.
There have been several media comments on the Centenary City Project and we have deliberately refrained from responding to most of them. The...
Kaadi Igbeayo: Spreading The Gains Of Democracy The Mimiko Way
By Femi Adepoju
"This is part of planning , Mimiko has taken us back to the Awolowo school of leadership, that leadership is not by...
NASS Leadership: A Harvest Of Whirlwind
By Sufuyan Ojeifo
Some have described what happened in the National Assembly on Tuesday, June 9, 2015, with the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki and...
PERSPECTIVE: Saraki Is Best Man For The Job
By Rotimi Opeyeoluwa
One of the major realities of the victory of the All Progressive Congress, (APC), in the recently concluded polls is the attendant...
Senator Uche Chukwumerije: Another Meteor Has Blinked Out
By Unico Kalu Uduka
This is the exit of one of the few remaining aerolitic fireballs that came to titivate Nigeria’s political firmament. They are rare,...
Before Goje’s Final Political Demise, Matters Arising
By Aminu Mohammed
The April 11 Governorship elections in Gombe have been won and loss. But, like a huge stone cast into a still ocean,...
Why Edo Deserves to Produce the House Speaker
By Ebomhiana Musa
The elections are over, the battles have been fought fiercely, lost and won. Ultimately, Nigerians and Nigeria are the real winners. Yes,...
PERSPECTIVE: March 28, A Vote To Stop An Impending Cardiac Arrest
By Rotimi Opeyeoluwa
Exactly nine days from now, Nigeria will be going to the polls to either in the slogan of the All Progressive Congress,...
The Tragedy Of Nigerian Journalism
By Godwin Onyeacholem
For anyone who truly lays claim to the practise of journalism in Nigeria, this is the time to shield the face from...
PERSPECTIVE: Nigeria’s Military, A Deep Reflection
By Godwin Onyeacholem
For Nigeria’s military, times have never been this challenging. Plagued on the one hand by the fiendish activities of some twisted minds...
INEC And The Burden Of Conducting Free And Fair Elections
One of the major reasons, we are fully supporting the postponement of the general election was to prevent INEC under Professor Jega from compromising...
General Buhari’s Fight Against Corruption Sham
By Ado Adamu
The general election is just weeks away and campaigning by political parties and their candidates are in full swing. The presidential election is undoubtedly...
PERSPECTIVE: Why APC Is A Better Choice
By Godwin Onyeacholem
With many years of uncertainties as the hallmark of her wobbly existence, Nigeria has once again arrived at a critical juncture –...
PERSPECTIVE: Labour Party Threatens PDP’s Dominance In Cross River
By Eyobong Ita
Mama, Papa, Pekin!
The slogan of the Labour Party is becoming a familiar chant in Cross River State, less than two weeks to...
Dakuku Peterside: A Credible Alternative For Rivers People
By Priye Briggs
“A Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way” – John C. Maxwell.
Until the All Progressives...
Baga Barrack Invasion: Chad, Niger Are Still In Multinational Force -Badeh
The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall, Mr. Alex Badeh, Tuesday dismissed insinuations that Niger and Chad have withdrawn from the multinational force...
Supo Shasore’s Guber Ambition Excites Lagosians
By Olamilekan Ibitoye
Lagos’ political scene will never be the same again - what with Supo Shasore, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, joining the guber race. Shasore,...
Peaceful Conduct Of Ebonyi PDP House Of Assembly Primaries And The Question Of Impunity
By MAXWELL EZE, Abakaliki
The November 29th 2014 primaries for the House of Assembly aspirants under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in...
Who Is Afraid Of Senator Teslim Folarin?
By Suleiman Arapaja
It is generally acknowledged that in a democracy such as ours, especially where voter apathy is replete, quite frequently, the number of...
As Ndoma-Egba Obtains Form For Fourth Term
By Michael Jegede
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, the Senate Majority Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba was at the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party...
Akala: Just Before Affliction Arises Second Time
By Ola Adekanbi
When the Indian sage, Mahatman Ghandi said that "Politics without principle is one of the seven social sins", he philosophically perhaps have...
Osun Election: A Post Mortem
“When a society demands change there is no need attempting to change it on old principles”-Foday Sankoh.
Only yesterday, the winner of the recently conducted...
The Imperative Of Stopping Nigeria’s Annual Loss Of At Least One Trillion Naira (N1Tr)...
Attention: Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and Engr. Andrew Yakubu
It is extremely disturbing to read the first response of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to...
Katsina APC Congress And Senator Bello’s Objection
By Michael Jegede
Few days to the National Convention of All Progressives Congress (APC), which took place on June 12 and 13, 2014, Katsina State...
Our Judiciary: The Intrigues Of Judgement And Justice
By Umana Nsikak
Citizen Eseme Eyiboh, erstwhile member and Spokesperson of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic. The Supreme Court judgment of July 7,...
Stopping Wike’s Macabre Dance In Rivers State
By Babatunde Oladipo
This has not been the best times for Rivers indigenes and residents due to the return of the war drums in the...