Category: Opinion
Tinubu The Audacity To Hope: Two Years After
By Segun Adeleye The second year has gone since Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was sworn in as the President of Nigeria, which translates to half of his tenure already...
Defections: Ini Ememobong’s shining example
By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0803 251 0193, 0807 552 5533 Recently I watched an interview that former President Olusegun Obasanjo granted on the floodgate...
Open Letter to Gov Dapo Abiodun: Let Ogun border communities breathe
This letter was published on December 18,2023. In spite of new developments along the axis,it remains a tokenism compared to the agony the residents of the border...
Two Years of President Tinubu: Two Stories Behind the Positive Numbers
By Tunde Rahman Economists and commentators have written and said much about the positive trajectory and indicators signposting Nigeria’s economic growth....
The underdevelopment of Ijebu-Jesa, my Native Nazareth (1)
By abiodun KOMOLAFE I am an angry Nigerian! I am angry because Ijebu-Jesa, my hometown, is a town where the past and present intersect in a complex blend...
Understanding the Flight Announcer
Azu Ishiekwene Boarding announcements were not an issue when I used to commute in Lagos by danfo, the ubiquitous yellow buses, or molue, the mass-transit lorries, which...
Readers’ comments on Of journalists’ deaths, security lapses and cut-throat taxes
By Hassan Gimba Inna lilLahi wa inna ilaihir raji’un! May Allah have mercy upon their souls and grant them Aljanna Firdausi. My condolences to you and through you, to...
Interrogating Fashola’s treatise on patriotism
By Bolanle Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 “It is time to move beyond rhetorical hope…Nigeria’s future cannot be built on beautiful aspirations...
Tinubu’s Second Year:* *Hope, Hard Choices, and the Heavy Lifting Ahead*
*Tinubu’s Second Year:* *The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision* Maimonides As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu crosses his second...
Tinubu’s half-time score card
By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 How time flies! May we not be indebted! Because if you promise to pay back in four years’ time and then go to...
