Government
When We Go Low, We Go Really Low By Simon Kolawole
On a visit to my mum years ago — this should be in 2009 — I saw an improvised battery-powered lamp on her table. It was mounted on a wood, probably six-inch long, with space […]
Issues/Policy
Issues/Policy
Rape: When Does “No Mean No”? By Florence Amagiya
When the issue of the rape of a minor by a major more than 20 years ago was heralded in Nigeria recently, various reactions greeted the event. The question people asked was why is the […]
Issues/Policy
Even When Other Criminals Strike, It Is Fulani Herdsmen, It Is Stereotyping
Even when other criminals strike, it is Fulani herdsmen, it is stereotyping – Adesina ‘Even when other criminals strike, it is Fulani herdsmen. It is stereotyping. It is finger-pointing which is not based on facts. […]
Government
Can Mr President Speak English? By Sehinde Omoniyi
The on-going Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to observers of the events since the 2019 elections and its fall-out, has not in any way come short of the dramatics that has now become an integral part […]
Issues/Policy
The Implication of Server Controversy On Bayelsa, Kogi Elections By Moshood Isah
Barely four months to the governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states and with the controversy of over the usage of server hovering over the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the commission may just remain […]
Issues/Policy
The Bare-Faced Lies, Fallacies Against Osinbajo By Oritsewumi Adolor
I started following Vice President Osinbajo closely in my last year in University before I returned home in 2016. His speech at the 50th Anniversary of the civil war that I listened to on YouTube. […]
Issues/Policy
Of Child Labour, Unemployment and a Future Not Guaranteed
One thing has remained invariable, perhaps now a hallmark of human existence, it is that which many has dubbed social injustice. Despite this sad realism, it becomes really disheartening to know that this injustice will […]
Issues/Policy
The Passage of A Teacher, College Administrator and An Illustrious Nigerian By Babatunde Ajayi
It was quite unusual in those days to find a young man of 36 at the helm of affairs of a higher institution. It was even very rare that such a young man had already […]
Issues/Policy
Men Are Not ‘All Knowing’… By Chukwuneta Oby
A Lady’s message to me holds a doorway to the mindset of an average woman about men. But we have constantly failed to realise that men are not all-knowing. At least not in the manner […]
Issues/Policy
Your Children Should Not Inherit Your Enemies
Dragging our children into our adult issues is a common phenomenon amongst parents, though we could say that this was more prevalent in the past when communal living was more common, but this attitude is […]
Issues/Policy
The Prospect of Oil and Gas In Northern Nigeria, By Hannatu Musawa
Questions surrounding whether the NNPC invested enough funds in seismic data acquisition and drilling in these areas or whether the cessation of oil exploration in the Lake Chad Basin and Benue Trough is related to […]
Issues/Policy
Mutual Suspicion And Worsening Security Situation By Raymond Oise-Oghaede
It is so unfortunate that insecurity is still waxing strong in our polity despite all efforts of the government to bring the menace under control. Day in, day out, people are being slaughtered like chickens […]
Issues/Policy
My Lord, Chief Justice Ibrahim Tanko You Gaffed Authoritatively! By Fredrick Nwabufo
The supreme court is an “ecclesiastical order’’; it sits on high looking down on the ”lowly”. It dispenses in inexorable ‘’justice’’; justice not because it is always just, but because it cannot be interrogated when […]
Issues/Policy
US Honours Nigerian Imam Who Hid Christians During Plateau Killings
The US has honoured Abdullahi Abubakar, the 83-year-old Muslim cleric who hid over 200 people, including Christians, during an attack in Plateau state last year. Abubakar and four others from Sudan, Brazil, Iraq and Cyprus […]
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Towards Excellent Political Reporting By Kunle Ajibade
Exactly forty years ago last month, one of Nigeria’s best journalists and editors, the assassinated Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch, Dele Giwa, wrote a piece in his popular column in Sunday Concord when it was clear to […]
Issues/Policy
Forging An Era of Collaboration Between Nigeria and South Africa By Nonye Mpho Omotola
With a South African mother and Nigerian father, I am in the fortunate position of being exposed to the best of both countries and cultures. As such, I can clearly envision the benefits of the […]
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Guardian (UK): MPs Say ‘Embarrassing and Insulting’ UK Visa System Damages Africa Relations
British MPs have warned that the UK visitor visa system is “broken” and doing “severe damage” to UK-Africa relations. The problems faced by experts trying to visit the UK are so widespread that many Africans […]
Government
Open Letter To Former President: Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Obasanjo presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Dear sir, I’m Kurtis Adigba, a lawyer, political consultant, and a citizen of Nigeria. I’m an idoma from Benue State. My father; Samuel Ochola Adigba, was […]
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Is Africa’s Development Tied To Looted Assets Return? By Matthew Ozah
Over the years, corruption has become so endemic among African nations such that successive administrations around the continent cannot escape without being fingered in misappropriation of public funds. Somehow, one may want to think whether […]
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From West Africa With War (2) By Lekan Sote
lekansote@yahoo.com 08050220816 History records the eastward migrations, through the Sahel to most of West Africa and parts of Central Africa. Sunni Ali, who made flourishing Gao into his capital city, extended the epic Songhai Empire […]