Category: Column

How I Returned from the Gate of the Other World (4)

By Hassan Gimba The Arbiter The nurses at Al Shifa Hospital in Makkah are well-trained, diligent and passionate about their work. They are very active as well. When I...

The Tinubu Enigma:Part 12: When Power Meets History

  By Lanre Ogundipe There comes a stage in the life of every consequential presidency when governance gradually escapes the immediacy of daily politics and begins...

Oloyede’s exit from JAMB: End of an era!

    By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058       Since the Minister of State for Education, Professor Suwaiba Said Ahmad, announced...

The unwritten rules of a true democracy

  By abiodun KOMOLAFE           Approaching the midpoint of a momentous year already defined by dramatic twists and turns, a critical...

Arsenal, at Last

  Azu Ishiekwene   I love Arsenal fans. I sometimes think there can’t be many of them who won’t make good spouses or lifetime friends. It takes the...

Alausa’s controversial JAMB admission policy for Colleges of Education…   By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193   (Published in...

The Tinubu Enigma: Part 11: Power, Legacy and the Loneliness of Leadership

  By Lanre Ogundipe Power is often imagined as the triumph of arrival. In reality, it is the beginning of isolation. The higher leaders rise within the architecture...

The Illusion of Selective Perception: Ian Smith’s Ugly Cognitive Bias.

    A half-century after Ian Smith declared that Black self-rule would inevitably reduce African nations to structural ruin, sewage-lined streets, and...

Atiku,Obi, Kwakwanso,three of a kind

      Once again, the country is in the mood of another electoral cycle. The cycle is to usher in a new government in 2027 after the four year tenure of...

How I Returned from the Gate of the Other World (3)

By Hassan Gimba   The Arbiter I want to believe Allah (SWT) brought me back to read my scorecard. He does that whenever He wants. All the more reason to forgive...