VIEWPOINT: Fayemi Must Be Stopped
By Gboyega Ajayi
Indeed, this is an interesting moment in Nigeria with the unceasing multifaceted mudslinging everywhere. Now we...
Joint Task 10th NASS: And The Search For Peace, Stability And Progress
By Idowu John Bakare
The race for leadership in the two chambers of the National Assembly has intensified. Expectedly,...
My Husband Hates Me For Giving Birth To Three Girls – Housewife Tells Court
(News investigators) A divorce-seeking woman, Temilade Rasheed, on Wednesday told a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan that her husband, Adeboye...
OPINION: Obaigbena Lies Again Without Shame As He Manufactures Alternate Reality
By Dele Alake & Bayo OnanugaOrdinarily, we consider it beneath us as well-bred media professionals to continue to engage in public spat...
Using my family’s dark history to teach about vaccines
By Rachel Schraer
(News investigators) How do you ask a community to trust medicine when history has given...
Call To Bar 2022: How A Little Girls Dream Became A Reality
(News investigators) I woke up to this morning to an inspiring story of a young lady who dared to dream, the two...
Why Lagos Commercial Drivers Are On Strike
(News Investigators) in case you have no idea why Lagos transporters commenced a 7 days strike, let me give some clarity and make...
OPINION: Gombe PDP And The Dilemma Of A Boastful Gubernatorial Candidate
By Sule Bello PindigaIn every election, everyone that could help in improving the chances of one (or a party) winning an election...
Kaleidoscope Of Governor Inuwa’s Chatham House Visit
By Ismaila Uba Misilli
At the prestigious Royal Institute of...
Rethinking Tourism For A More Sustainable World
By Folorunsho Coker
As we celebrate this 42nd edition of the World Tourism Day, this is within the frame...
VIEWPOINT: Jibrin Barde’s Affront And Flagrant Disregard For Lawful Authorities
By Sirajo Bala SBNo sooner the Gombe State Urban Planning and Development Authority (GOSUPDA), removed the illegally erected structure belonging to Gombe...
OPINION: Deserving Cheers For DSS Boss, Gentleman Bichi
By Amos Dunia
"My vision is to create a friendly work environment, enhance staff capacity...
PERSPECTIVE: Why Jibril DanBarde Got It All Wrong
By Kasimu Sani Tanko
Normally, an interview on prime time television is a golden chance for a politician or...
Between Inuwa Yahaya’s Promise Keeping Governance & PDP’s Illusionary Antics
By Sunday Yilwa
Gombe State is currently being confronted with a deluge of promises by the People's Democratic Party...
PERSPECTIVE: Sit Tight Syndrome And Western Hypocrisy
… The Donald Trump, Boris Johnson's Example And Silence Of World Powers
By Raheem Ishola
That...
3 Years of Governor Inuwa’s Saddle in the Savannah: A Vindication Of A Promise...
By Ismaila Uba Misilli
Given the character of politics and...
PERSPECTIVE: Why Amaechi Is Called Man Of Uncommon Courage
By Oby Ndukwe
Every political leader is 'courageous' to even lead a group of people, create human capital, and...
PERSPECTIVE: Section 84(12) Of The Electoral Act, 2022 Is Valid And Not Ultra Vires
By Kayode Ajulo
Kayode Ajulo, Senior Partner, The Castle
It is...
OPINION: Goje: Sunset At Dawn
Senator Danjuma Goje
By Kabiru Danladi LawantiAfter the modest stewardship of Governor Abubakar Habu Hashidu, may Allah rest...
Wayas, Man Of Taste And Rosy Cheeks Bows Out
By Gboyega Amoboye
So Dr. Joseph Wayas is dead. If good life, taste, fame and power were to determine...
Marwa, NDLEA And The Headline Blackmail
By Toyin Raheem
Precisely 7pm on Friday while searching the internet for subjects of interest to write on, I...
Marwa: Birthday Tribute To An Enigma
By Femi Babafemi
There danger of writing a tribute to any high profile personality in Nigeria today is obvious:...
Kyari And His Hushpuppy
By Lasisi Olagunju Ph.D“There are lessons in this fall: I do not think Kyari started his career as a bad cop. Where...
OPINION: Banjo, The Accidental Biafran
By Dare BabarinsaThe arrest and trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the outlawed IPOB, is going to dominate the news for...
South Africa Needs To Address Vaccine Shortage In Joint Collaboration With China To Combat...
China's Sinovac
By Guan Jintai
Latest statistics on the covid-19 pandemic in South Africa indicate...
The Imperial President And His Self-Absorption
By Nosa IgieborPresident Muhammadu Buhari is hypocrisy personified in very vivid colours. The irony of the cosmic...
VIEWPOINT: Politics Of Covid-19 Vaccines: The Odds Against Brazil’s Anti-Chinese’ Sinovac Stance
By Karin VazquezOn March 22 2021, Karin Vazquez, a Brazilian scholar, researcher at the BRICS Research Center, Fudan University, China who is...
PERSPECTIVE: Revisiting SEPLAT, After Six Years
By Okey Ikechukwu -
History was made, nearly a decade ago, in the oil and gas and financial services...
ANALYSIS: How Nigeria Engages COVID-19 In Battle With Increased Health Infrastructure
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic impacted the year 2020 negatively with projected long-lasting effects across all sectors, especially the health sector in Nigeria.
Sustaining Rural Development Through Solar Power System
By Constance AthekameElectricity access is essential for people’s lives and livelihoods; from using fridges for storing food and medicine; charging mobile phones...
A Nation In Search Of Vindication
By Matthew Kukah Hassan
Another Christmas with Dark Clouds of Death:Let me paraphrase the holy prophet Isaiah who...
PERSPECTIVE: Africa’s Infrastructure Deficit: The Hypocrisy Of The Heritage Foundation’s Alarm
By Abubakar JohnFor those who have been following the turn of events in the trade war between the United States (U.S.) and...
PERSPECTIVE: RE: 2020 Amendments To RPC 2007
By Kayode Ajulo
My attention has been drawn to various reactions to my opinion on the issue of the...
Labour Act Should Be Reviewed to Accommodate Sexual Harassment In Workplace
Dr. Kayode Ajulo
Dr. Kayode Ajulo
Dr. Kayode Ajulo is a lawyer with special...
VIEWPOINT: NDDC: When Strange Bedfellows Unite Against Region
By Eghosa Salami-Sunday
If the news of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, on...
OPINION: Bayelsa Dep Gov NYSC Certificate Saga, Sylva And DSS Credibility Crisis
By William Jumbo
Since its creation 34 years ago, on 5th June 1986, the credibility of the Department of...
Liberation Movement And Vijah Opuama’s Petition: A Storm In A Tea Cup
By William Jumbo
It is not ethical to discuss pending issues in court. However, the barrage of recent misleading,...
COVID-19 & KWADON ‘PROTEST’: Lest We Lose Sight of Task at Hand
By Ismaila Uba Misilli
In the ongoing fight against the dreaded novel coronavirus disease, code-named COVID-19, different states in...
How Funke Osibodu’s BEDC Defied Minister, Governor To Perpetuate Darkness In Ikale
By Mike Adeniyi Omogbehin
Ordinarily, I would have ignored the fabricated falsehood being peddled by some persons in government...
Edo Without Allocation: The Quest For A Refreshing And Visionary Leadership
By John Mayaki
According to Thomas Hobbes, life for man in the state of nature was, solitary, poor, brutish,...
PERSPECTIVE: Making Data Relevant To The Business
By Irene von Buddenbrock
Data doesn’t work for everyone, so stop reading. It’s true, business intelligence (BI) tools...
OPINION: Making Do With The Warriors In White
By Dare Babarinsa
Rotimi Ireti Akinola is my friend. He is one of the few Nigerians who look trouble in the...
Kyari Tribute: I Need No Validation Of Man -FFK
By Femi Fani-Kayode
My opposition to the Buhari Government for the last five years has been as constant...
TRIBUTE: “I Looked Back Instinctively… …But It Turned Out To Be My Last View...
By Femi Adesina
He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now,...
TRIBUTE: How Are The Mighty Fallen
By Femi Fani-Kayode
Insults mean nothing to me. They only fuel my resolve and strengthen my determination. They are...
VIEWPOINT: Abba Kyari: Speaking Ill Of The Dead
By Remi Oyeyemi
"The evil that men do live after them." -- William Shakespare
I am...
Abba Kyari’s Death, End Of A Surrogate Presidency, The Coming Chaos
By Farooq Kperogi
To say I was shocked by Abba Kyari's death would be to tell a lie....
Gombe APC Brouhaha: Let The Truth Be Told
By Sadiq Umar
The recent development in Gombe State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in which 7...
COVID 19: Appeal To The President To Unlock Lagos And Abuja
By Ebun-Olu Onagboruwa
On March 29, 2020, the President directed the lockdown of Lagos, Ogun States and Abuja. Everything...
VIEWPOINT: Virus Outbreak Requires Better Media Environment
By Li Han Stereotype, according to the Oxford Dictionary, means “a fixed idea or image that many people have of a...
ANALYSIS: How Gov. Inuwa Yahaya Is Tackling Basic Education Challenges In Gombe
By Ismaila Uba Misilli
When Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya assumed the mantle of leadership in Gombe State, he...
OPINION: A Case For Ejection Of Godwin Obaseki From APC
By John Mayaki
This
distinguished committee headed by Chief Bisi Akande, one of the founding
fathers and leaders of our great...
OPINION: Stay Calm And Confident -How To Face The Coronavirus
By Wang Yongjun Everyone can help to fight the novel coronavirus pneumonia. In Chinese culture, we denounce such actions of throwing rocks...
VIEWPOINT: The French Realm Within West Africa Remains!!
By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Alanssane Ouattara, the French and Ivory Coast leaders respectively, have decided...
55 % Of Nigerians Have No Access To Electricity – Clean Tech
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) Clean Tech Hub, a Non Governmental Organization which focuses on research, policy development and consumer awareness on climate resilience, says...
Buhari Inaugurates New Cabinet, Retains Petroleum Minister Position
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday swore in the 43 appointed ministers at the Federal Executive Council Chambers, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Why Buhari May Consider Godwin Jedy Agba For Petroleum Ministry
By Sufuyan Ojeifo
One of
Nigeria’s very experienced energy administrators, Mr. Godwin Jedy-Aba, is a
minister-nominee of President Muhammadu Buhari. And...
Developmental Strides Of Dr. Yahaya Isa Bunkure, Provost, Sa’adatu Rimi College Of Education
By Abdullahi Umar Bunkure
Barely few months of his appointment as Provost of the...
VIEWPOINT: Italy In The Maelstrom Of The Euro
Isidoros Karderinis
By Isidoros Karderinis
Italy joined the eurozone in 1999,...
EU, UNICEF Impacting Lives Through Health Services In Kebbi
EU, UNICEF Impacting Lives Through Health Services in Kebbi
VIEWPOINT: Ninth Assembly, NASS Leadership And Micro-Zoning
Mohammed Ali Ndume
By Michael Jegede
“The principles
of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost,...
OPINION: Wake Up, Nigeria Is Dying – A Reply To My Fulani Friends
Obadiah Mailafia
By Obadiah Mailafia
TODAY concludes
the piece I wrote in this...
VIEWPOINT: Ninth NASS: Between Secret And Open Ballot System
By Michael Jegede
Soon after the
2019 presidential/National Assembly elections, the battle for the seats...
OPINION: The Zero Sum Game In Political Appointment
Babatunde Fowler
By Abubakar Ismail
Let’s first look at the role of the media in
politics....
2019 Presidential Election: Foretelling The Outcome
By Omoshola Deji
Election
is the recruitment of persons the largest percentage of the electorate...
PERSPECTIVE: In Election Year, Will African Countries Get Investor’s Vote?
African map
By Laurie Hammond and Thibaut Hollanders
The
world, including investors, will keep a...
Letter To Him, By Bimbo Manuel
Bimbo Manuel
Dear Sir,
I am sure that
this letter will meet you well in the...
PERSPECTIVE: The Evolution Of Broadcasting In Africa
BON
By Joseph Hundah
Africa’s Over
The Top (OTT) market is poised for growth and it’s...
Presidency Pressured Daily Trust to Stop my Saturday Column
By Farooq Kperogi
I had chosen to
let this issue slide because it’s frankly of...
Energy Magnate, Dr. Louis Ekere, Bags Doctoral Degree In America
THE billionaire businessman, Dr. Louis Ekere, Chief Executive Officer, Homeland Integrated Offshore Services Limited, is a man of great feats, who has made several...
PERSPECTIVE: How Can Use Of Smartphone’s Affect Human Health?
By Mehenou Amouzou
Africa needs technologies to develop its resources and meet the needs of today and its growth. The harmony of this development can...
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...
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