Category: Opinion

2023: Tinubu and the cost of political miscalculation

By Sanusi Muhammad The godfather of Lagos politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in 2015 led the South-West into an alliance with the North to birth the All Progressive...

Boy, I have seen Biafra and it’s not funny

By Tony Okoroji   No one can be more Biafran than this writer. I have seen Biafra. I have lived Biafra and been bathed in Biafra. Let me tell you something: It is...

Insecurity in Nigeria: A national crisis and resolution

Onyekwere Akym Uche OAU 2023 Security is a quintessential and integral factor of a government. It provides for protection which exhorts for peace, which impetrates for...

Mbaka: Villa and its vulture

  By Lasisi Olagunju   Vulture means Igún in Yoruba. At the very beginning of time, he was the priest of the earth. The priest was also earth’s doctor....

The latest ‘own goal’ by Mallam Garba Shehu

  By Uche Diala I was asleep yesterday while my Boss Mallam Garba Shehu unleashed his latest ‘own goal’ for the PMB Administration. Already it has...

Nigeria and her path to doom  

Nigeria and her path to doom   By Emeka Alex Duru   (08054103327, nwaukpala@yahoo.com)   It is necessary that we confess that the title to this piece is not...

Oduduwa Republic: My position as  Yoruba man (1)

  By Sunday Adelaja “After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its...

A country that is bleeding

By Eric Teniola On April 22 this year, the Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (71) (rtd) was on the spot. He told State House correspondents that...

Birds of a feather…

  By Bola Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 As they say, birds of a feather flock together; meaning “people of the same sort or with the same tastes and...

Insecurity: Putting  Abiodun on the spot

  By Bolanle Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 One common factor or denominator all over the country today is insecurity. In the North-east it is the Boko...