Category: Column
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...
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 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....
Has Tinubu lost his grip on the Nigerian media?
By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 You must have heard it said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has the Nigerian media in his...
Speculation as Classified Information : Atiku’s $1.2 million Lobbying gamble exposed
By Sunday Dare The coordinated media blitz orchestrated around a Washington, D.C. advisory firm is not an intelligence breakthrough; it is a...
2027: The Whistle Is Blown, Buni’s Investments and the Kuje Threat
The Arbiter The four-year cycle in our democratic journey is here once again. The whistle for the next round of elections has been blown with the release...
Still on FCCPC and the cement monsters…
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 53 Last week we commented on the scandalously high price of cement in the country vis-a-vis our neighbouring...
