Category: Opinion

Don’t use security operatives to muzzle dissent voices, Ogundipe frmr NUJ President tells Tinubu

  Photo Caption: Lanre Ogundipe,NUJ, President ..A former President of the Nigerian Union of Journalist,NUJ,Lanre Ogundipe has called on President Bola Tinubu- not...

First of August: Much ado about nothing?

  By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Those threatening to stage nationwide protests are badly heating up the polity. The government that is fretting...

Tinubu’s reforms will save Nigerians, not policy flipflops

  By Uche Nnadozie If you are reading the Financial Times and the article is titled “Shock Therapy Alone Will Not Cure Nigeria’s Economic Ills,” you...

NCC Orders Immediate Reactivation of Lines Affected by NIN-SIM Verification Issues

  Photo Caption:Maida,NCC EVC The Nigerian Communication Commission,NCC, has ordered Telecom operators in the country to restore all lines blocked over the weekend...

Building Collapse/Death toll increases to five

Photo Caption: LASEMA officials attending to one of the rescued victims The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said the death toll in the building collapse...

NNPC v Dangote: Where the Truth Lies

Azu Ishiekwene Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is not a stranger to adversity or its more sinister cousin, sabotage. One of the bitterest battles he has fought in...

Best Way to Defend the Presidency

By Eric Teniola “It is totally false to suggest, as we are apt to do, that Nigerians are fundamentally different from any other people in the world. Nigerians are...

LASPA: Not churches and mosques alone…

  By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193, 0705 263 1058 Last week, Lagos State Parking Authority (LASPA) stirred the hornets’ nest when a...

Local Government autonomy: More Centralism, less Federalism

  By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The Supreme Court decision that federally-allocated funds be paid directly to the local governments (LGs) has...

Tinubu’s LG autonomy gamble

By abiodun KOMOLAFE     _“Local government is not just about politics, it’s about people’s lives.”_ – Eric Garcetti At last, the Supreme Court of...