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 that should dominate the election campaigns are curiously More...
VIEWPOINT: Thoughts On A Tambuwal Presidency
Sokoto state governor 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, especially as it concerns the More...
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 for us to prepare More...
OPINION: Watch Out Trump, China Is Taking Africa From Under Your Nose
By David A. Andelman ATLANTA, United States of America, August 13, 2018/ — More...
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 competent Segun Oni and the intellectual Kayode Fayemi, but none like the More...
OPINION: Wazirin Atiku Abubakar And The Renaissance Of Restructuring
Former Vice President 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 of Nigerians have indeed survived these More...
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 is rather unfortunate that foremost beneficiaries More...
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 roundtable under the theme “Enhancing More...
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 Science Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe More...
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 aspiring looked with hope in their hearts and expectations in their minds, that one day shall More...
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 generally perceived as a combination of impunity and More...
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 cable news culture that consistently portrays the More...
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 International, who addressed the event, reflects More...
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 Haram raids and allow farmers to tend their fields in safety. More...
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 militarily imposed and the democratically elected, has More...
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 Nigerian national economy is not organized for internal self-propulsion More...
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 country. They offer composite reasons for this. To More...
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 Light, Venerable Femi Taiwo. His sack has been attributed to the First Lady of More...
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 of the Chibok kidnapping victims. According to The Guardian, Boko More...
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 life after this life and I believe that when I shed off this bodily shell, I would More...
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 moment is not the person who has moved the most impactful motion, not a lawmaker More...
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, Africa has supposedly passed from a “primitive More...
OPINION: Nigeria: Time To Domesticate United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250
Attorney General and Minister of Justice 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 the role of young More...
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 the Southern Kaduna-based Pastor Owojaye Matthew. He said, “you want More...
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 a little above 1.8 million people. Mauritus? About 1.3 million people. Not even Ghana More...
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, Indonesia and Singapore largely only endured tourism for More...
Our Christmas Wish List
President Nigerian Guild of Editors 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 and reminded me on live television to More...
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 to Monrovia, from there to Freetown, and then to Banjul, in The Gambia. He held meetings lasting More...
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 penned by a senior journalist who, evidently bereft of facts, decided to regale More...
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 a world power in the future. That is the belief of majority More...
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 carry the heavy booty to your immaculate mansion Shall I bury it More...
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 and aspirations of Nigerians. It was built solidly with stone-foundation More...
The Unspiritual Side Of Aso Villa: A Reply To Reuben Abati
Buhari’s Special Adviser, Media and Publicity 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 home, we are just birds More...
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 are hers. The total value of the accounts More...
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 is often easily exploited by the elite. The latest theatre More...
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 States with an equivalent of 300 million people. More...
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 – the first major, painful defeat for More...
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 explain some economic realities. Yet, for decades they More...
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 reasons is probably the same as that for the high incidence of traffic More...
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 or events happened which ought to exonerate him from criminal liability. More...
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, came out with an instructive advert: Let my experience work More...
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 at 350 to a dollar, not a single road tarred, the 2016 Budget in baby steps, no More...
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 like Nigeria under military rule and the past More...
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 nice cars to ride. And they are not demanding just any car; they’re taking money More...
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 one thing to call it just, More...
Ocholi: Too Late To Stop Believing
Buhari’s Special Adviser, Media and Publicity 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 we pretend More...
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 primitive power after a recently dubious and highly contestable supreme Court judgement, More...
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 the possibility of stabilizing the Nigerian Naira (NGN / N) against the More...
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 dissipation of energy that seeks to revert the gains of the electoral More...
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 hand, and the State Security Service (SSS), also known as the More...
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 looters. The ongoing battle by President Muhammadu Buhari against More...
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 Legion attend parades, pigeons symbolizing More...
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 me. There is so much commotion in the land. It seems like we are still busy campaigning after More...
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 (PDP) as governor of Abia State and declared Alex Otti More...
Between Buhari And The Proposed Anti-New Media Law
President of Nigerian Senate By Mobolaji Susan Ajibuwa, Kansas City, USA An unexpected deluge of criticisms against an attempt by privileged members of the Nigerian upper legislative chamber, the Senate, to enact More...
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 to incur in the coming weeks for the enormous More...
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 with his intention of assuming the role of the Minister of Petroleum or More...
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 noticed in the power sector. The appointment done by the More...
NDDC Auditor’s Report: Matters Arising
Mr. Samuel Ukura By Dauda Bala The recent controversial 2008 – 2012 report of the Auditor General of the Federation (AGF) on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has thrown up questions of procedure, More...
Buhari’s ‘Change’: The Place Of Women, Children, President’s Wife
Wife of the President 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 political party victory at the polls, More...
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 permutation but good planning for the welfare of the people” . That More...
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 Honourable Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of More...
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, they are the real winners because the cynics and the More...
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 a big shame. It is a season of great disappointment and embarrassment. Not More...
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 that have taken over a vast cut of the country’s More...
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 Congress picked Warisenibo Dakuku Adulphus Peterside as its governorship candidate More...
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 persons required to determine who ultimately wins general More...
$9.3m Controversial Arms Deal: APC Demands Explanation On Asari-Dokubo’s Involvement, Says He’s Among Arrested Suspects In South Africa
By Emmanuel Adesuji, Abuja. The All Progressive Congress (APC) Wednesday demanded explanation from the President Goodluck Jonathan led federal government, the alleged involvement of former Niger-Delta militant More...
Position Paper On The Structure Of Government Presented By Youth Delegates
HASSAN RILWAN — April 29, 2014 As a follow-up to the first session wherein a viable youth agenda was outlined, I have in this second session deliberated with my think-tank on the Structure of Government More...
SUNDAY MUSINGS: On this Matter of the National Conference
Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD alukome@gmail.com February 2, 2014 My People: The Federal Government recently announced the modalities for the much-awaited National Conference, following the submission of the More...
Tragic Consequence of Religiosity and Politics
The deaths caused by a stampede during a visit by the All Progressives Grand Alliance to the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry in Anambra State resulted from the unfortunate mix of religiosity and politics, writes Ojo More...
