Category: Opinion

Once again, the skewed nature of the Nigerian Federation came to the front burner of public discourse recently through three distinct sources. One channel emerged following the reluctant removal of the service chiefs, and their replacement by a new set of military officers. The other source was a recent federal law on protocols for management […]

The threat by Kano APC chairman to corral civil servants into the party is unacceptable. Twenty-one years into the Fourth Republic, Nigeria is still afflicted by those political ailments that have held her down since independence. The first three Republics collapsed as politicians failed to cultivate the noble values and culture that would sustain democracy. Cultivating the right political […]

By Hardball Guess the latest Bishop in town?  Sir Shina Peters, SSP!   His Afro-juju genre took Nigerian music by storm from 1989, when he released the monster hit, Ace. Till the late 1990s, he was ace sex symbol and electrifying stage performer, who used his youth to push his catchy, seductive music.  “Asiko awa youths […]

By Yinka Fabowale So, my senior colleague in the pen-wielding profession and Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, hearkened to my call in the last Revolution Notes for Nigerians to join in the battle to liberate ourselves from retrogressive forces that had so far held the country down and blighted our […]

By Lekan Otufodunrin Last December I was invited for a programme in Delta State and my condition for attending was that the organisers would provide flight ticket. They accepted to, but I was still worried that distance we would still drive from the airport to the venue of the event outside the state capital. A […]

By Martins Oloja On September 13, 2020, on this page, I looked into the seeds of time again and reported some revelations from an oracle that I should recast my (February 16, 2020) message to the authorities here. There was a revelation then, for instance, that the constituted authorities were failing to read ‘the writings […]

Reports credited to the Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello vowing never to negotiate with bandits as a way of ending banditry has raised a salient issue of how to stop banditry and other heinous criminality in the country. At least two other governors have, for good reason, spoken against negotiating with insurgents because they […]

By Tunde Odesola Music blared. Joy floated. Naira rained. Feet trampled. This is the spectacle of Nigerian lavish parties called owambe, a short-lived rivulet of opulence flowing into the sea of poverty. Despite the sacred warning that the love of money is the root of all evils, man loves money, still. Money has many monikers; […]

By Ogbuagu Anikwe I am a bit sad to hear about a crack police sleuth who reached the top as Inspector-General (IGP). Gambo-Jimeta, according to spokesperson Garba Shehu, died on Thursday 21 January. I should however not be sad because Gambo-Jimeta didn’t die young. Born in Jimeta, Yola, 15 April 1937, he would have been […]