Category: Opinion

Saturday breakfast: December, oh December! 

with TONY OKOROJI   OMG! The month of December is approaching very fast. Before you know it, December will be here with us. Normally, December is the month of...

Pantanmi and the challenge of scholarship

By Olukunle Martins In the past few years, one of the challenges the country have had to grapple with is the level of bigotry, which has dominated  our socio-political...

Takeaways of Anambra governorship poll

  By Emeka Alex Duru (08054103327, nwaukpala@yahoo.com) But for the life-and-death attitude of the Nigerian politician that may see the Anambra election dragging to...

South-West: Fanning the embers of religious bigotry

  By Bola Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Religion is the opium of the people – Karl Marx (1843). In the aftermath of the collapse of the 21-storey Ikoyi...

The challenges of GSM services providers re-echoes at NCC’s Stakeholders’ Engagement Forum

By Charles Okogene The first time I saw a mobile telephone hand set was in the late Oliver De-Coque’s office in the 1990s; that was shortly after the release of...

The senseless raid on Justice Odili’s home

  By Emeka Alex Duru   (08054103327, nwaukpala@yahoo.com)     What readily comes to mind at these times of unceasing assault on the rule of the law...

Pendulum: The Unsolvable Jigsaw of the Ikoyi Tragedy

By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, the terrible day, Monday,  November 1, 2021, started for me like all of my regular days. It was very quickly to become the stuff of...

SATURDAY BREAKFAST: Who is after Mary Odili?

With Tony Okoroji   One of the first songs I ever recorded as an artiste is titled “Sweet Mary”. My village church is St Mary’s Catholic Church, Ogada Atta in...

Jalumi War: Remembrance and lessons

  By Lasisi Olagunju   Today, November 1, 2021, is the 143rd anniversary of the Jalumi War. Some historians call it the Battle of Ikirun but Jalumi (meaning:...

Forward never, backward ever

  By Bola Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Bad news this week was the collapse in Lagos of a skyscraper under construction and the casualties are still...