Category: Analysis

Missed moments and the search for nationhood

Missed moments and the search for nationhood By abiodun KOMOLAFE           A critical tactical blunder in Nigeria’s chequered political...

The Daily Times We Wish For, But Can’t Have

Azu Ishiekwene The piece by columnist and former Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Guardian, Martins Oloja, entitled “Why Should We Celebrate Daily Times @ 100,...

*Why Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway* BY

    BY ERIC TENIOLA* I guess it is not by accident that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR, is constructing a highway between Calabar and Lagos. The construction...

Peter Obi and the Benue Incident: What we demand is consistency from partisan media-Festus Keyamo Media

Peter Obi and the Benue Incident: What we demand is consistency from partisan media-Festus Keyamo Media Yesterday’s report of the prevention of the Presidential...

2027: Emotional campaign and vague promises

    In the last three weeks,the country has entered the period of electioneering when politicians-contenders and pretenders alike battle for the soul of the...

2027 Campaigns: Time to Shelve Dangerous Rhetoric

  By Hassan Gimba Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up – Mahatma...

2027 Campaigns: Time to Shelve Dangerous Rhetoric

By Hassan Gimba Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up – Mahatma Gandhi....

Revisiting 1951 Western Regional House of Assembly cross-carpeting saga…

    By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com   Election cycles are when politicians and spin doctors go down memory lane to exhume ghosts of the past....

Southwest and the power of early preparation

  By abiodun KOMOLAFE           The Southwest, although it now laudably has a Development Commission, ought to project a future that will...

Dangote retains Africa’s richest man title as billionaires’ wealth hits $31.3bn

      Businessmen Aliko Dangote and Abdul Samad Rabiu have retained their positions among Africa’s richest billionaires, with their fortunes increasing...