Category: Opinion

El-Rufai and the cows in human skin

  Abimbola Adelakun In May, Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, was asked to clarify the statement he made nine years ago about the Fulani and their propensity...

Osun 2022: A choice will have to be made

By Abiodun KOMOLAFE The beauty of democracy is that choices are offered to the citizens to make. Nonetheless, when an opportunity to take decisions that impact the...

Adeosun v AGF: Matters arising

  If it is true that Nigerians do not need the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate for appointment into ministerial and, ipso facto, other public...

Nigeria cannot defeat the Igbo and Yoruba at the same time’*

By Akinyemi Onigbinde   The greatest thing Nigerians accomplished in the last thirty years was electing Muhammadu Buhari as president. If he had lived and died...

My observations of the current revolutionary movement in Yorubaland

  By ‘Femi Olufunmilade The title of this short piece is adapted from a book by a leading Nigerian political scientist, Prof. Claude Ake, of blessed memory. The...

Nigeria can only be united if there is  equity, …- Umar

  Says Buhari has mismanaged Nigeria Former military governor of Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (retd), has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s...

BuhariInsecurity:Resign now, northern elders tell Buhari

Polity:The Buhari conundrum (11)

By Tunde Abatan Since the last time we published the  interview granted Arise Television by President Muhammadu Buhari, probably the first of such with a non government...

Thank you, Father for putting me back to work

By Tony Okoroji This past Wednesday, we celebrated the 70th birthday of one of my exceedingly wonderful colleagues, the great drummer boy, Richard Cole. It was a show...

Power and the finitude of fate

By Prince Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu, At the height of the Teutonic fury which bestirred the known world with monstrous tyranny, when the beckon of the Fuehrer could wipe...

American citizen arrested with firearms in Lagos

Blacks, republicans and battle over voting

By Chido Nwangwu The struggle and determination to maintain the right to vote and have fair access to the voting process remain a consistent struggle for many minorities...