Category: Opinion
Chibok: Destroying the future of our tomorrow?
By abiodun KOMOLAFE The 10th anniversary of the abduction of 276 schoolchildren from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, has again brought...
Yahaya Bello: Time to review the impunity of immunity
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 To begin with, let me ask whether you knew that abusing the Naira is a worse offence than stealing or...
Is a Third World War Coming?
Azu Ishiekwene This was the question a friend of mine in his late 20s asked me when we woke up on April 14 to the news that Iran had launched over 300 drones and...
Eight Wasteful Years of Buhari Have Been Followed By A Tasteful Year of Tinubu
Caption:Reno Omokri One challenge that the Tinubu administration has is modesty. Surprisingly so, because we thought that those who made noise instead of news under...
Faye and France: The Tyre Meets the Road
Azu Ishiekwene The words of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye were honey to taste. Following the bitter ending of the 12-year rule of Macky Sall, highlighted by the...
The rise and fall of Philip Shaibu
By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Edo State deputy governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu, has kicked the canvass; he was impeached by the Edo State House of...
New electricity tariff is pro-poor, not a burden on majority of Nigerians.*
Caption: Adebayo Adelabu,Minister for Power By Dapo Okubanjo When the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) announced what has been described as a hike in...
Ali Baba, April Fool’s And The Media
By Kazeem Akintunde Though his real name is Atunyota Alleluya Akpobome, he is better known and addressed as Ali Baba. For close to three decades, he has been in the...
In Nigeria, is electricity no longer for the poor?
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Decades back, in those giddy days of military rule, David Mark, one of the top military brass, was reported as...
Jonathan and Sam: Two Books, One Message
Azu Ishiekwene Before The Human Flow was published, Jonathan, one of Europe’s most accomplished foreign affairs columnists and journalists, had talked with...
