Category: Opinion

What the failed food blockade by North has taught us

By Tunde Abatan The food  supply boycott has finally demystified the indispensability of the North as regards the capacity of the South to feed itself. It has shown...

Healed by love

By TONY OKOROJI I have written many times that I am an unbelievably lucky guy. I thank the Almighty for the incredible protection He has given me in many trying...

Guard your mind from negativity influence

Rather than follow every train of thought that is around you, it is more beneficial to be a student. In other words, instead of being a follower be a student of life....

Northern Nigeria in freefall

  Basil Okoh We Didn’t really know how insignificant and vulnerable the Northern economy is until they declared a food supply boycott to Southern Nigeria....

Revisiting Yinka Odumakin’s “watch the watcher”

Republic of Bandits

  By Yinka Odumakin HOW fast a country can degenerate into a failed republic is presently playing out in a Nigeria that is tottering towards the edge, unhinged in...

Politicians versus the people

By Tola Adeniyi   Whenever the history of the eventual collapse of this country is written Nigeria’s commercial/mercenary politicians will surely take a lion...

Imo and quisling commentators

By Oguwike Nwachuku In the build-up to the March 9, 2019 governorship election in Imo State, I wrote a widely circulated piece in the traditional national and online...

That failed kidnap attempt on Sunday Igboho

  By Chief Mike Ozekhome,SAN,FCIArb,LL.M The act of a combined team of soldiers, DSS and Police, numbering about 40 attempted to arrest and detain Sunday Adeniyi...

Nigeria’s Digital Switchover: Fresh missteps loom

Dominic Omuedi Heartwarming, it was for me, to read reports of the press conference addressed on Tuesday by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, on...

Sheikh Gumi and his blanket amnesty proposal

By Mijinyawa Bashir Nigerians had expected Sheikh Gumi to convincing the bandits to abandon their criminal activities, repent and apologise for their misdeeds. …Shiekh...