Category: Opinion

The story of the siege on Magodo

By Azu Ishiekwene This is a local story and it’s personal. I’m involved. And because I’m involved, I thought the best way to tell it is to hear it from persons who...

Goodnight, Comrade Bonnie Iwuoha  

    By Emeka Alex Duru (08054103327, nwaukpala@yahoo.com)   My intimacy with former President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), late Bonnie Iwuoha,...

Magodo fiasco, Governor Sanwo-Olu and genuine leadership 

     By Gboyega Akosile       I have read a lot reactions and media reports on the engagement between the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the...

A note on the Kwara journey

  By Rafiu Ajakaye   On October 26, 2021, former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, was on a national television to attempt a rebrand of himself ahead of the...

Imo getting better under Hope Uzodimma

  By Oguwike Nwachuku   On January 4, 2022, Dist. Senator Hope Uzodimma would be interacting with stakeholders in Imo State, the sixth in the series since he...

The sanctimony of Latimore’s apology

  I took time to go through the Barr. Latimore’s apology to His Excellency the Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and the Government of the Day,...

The Ninth Assembly and a reporter’s obsession with bias  

  By Ezrel Tabiowo When the Ninth Assembly was inaugurated on June 11, 2019, it came prepared to deliver on its mandate, which in clear terms was to ensure “a...

The rites of New Year’s resolutions

  By Bolanle Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Practically everyone makes New Year’s resolutions at this period of the season – that is, towards the...

Of Uche Nwosu’s arrest and wailing choristers

    By Oguwike Nwachuku     The arrest, Sunday, December 26 of the former governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), Mr. Uche Nwosu, a son...

Year of triple t

  By Bola Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 We are hours away from the year Twenty-Twenty-Two, the year before the apocalyptic year Twenty Twenty-Three; an...