Category: Opinion

Osun guber: Lessons from Ekiti (2)

            From all indications, the surge in voter interest is a clear signal that Osun is a bigger test and, fundamentally, it is the...

Osun guber: Lessons from Ekiti – (1)

  By abiodun KOMOLAFE           The off-cycle election in Ekiti State, which secured the reelection of the incumbent governor, Biodun...

Conversation with Azu170726 :Shettima’s Final Test

  Azu Ishiekwene   Vice President Kashim Shettima cannot be blamed for having doubts about whether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would renominate him as his...

Conducts that negatively impact public perception of Government…

    By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193   “Here, the more governments we have, the less good governance we enjoy! That is...

Osoba, Abacha

Aremo Olusegun Osoba @87: The weight of a Life Well lived

    By Lanre Ogundipe   There are birthdays that merely add another year to a man’s life. There are others that compel society to pause, not to...

The Iroko at Ninety-Two

    A Birthday Tribute to Wole Soyinka   There are men who inhabit time, and there are those who interrogate it. There are writers who merely chronicle...

The north's tadpoles and Deborah Yakubu

Monday Lines 2:Kurfi and the radarada in Katsina

    By Lasisi Olagunju       If Katsina State governor, Malam Dikko Umaru Radda, were a Yoruba man, the people would say he is living his name....

Now that Oyo School Children are Free

      There is jubilation all over from the President to the little known kids on the street of Ogbomoso-the town where warriors who kill elephants are...

The Arbiter:Of Banditry and a Shared Sovereignty

, by Hassan Gimba This piece was first published in May 2022. It remains as pertinent today as it was then, given the worsening insecurity currently facing the country....

The PFIPC Scandal and the Urgent Reforms Required

  The PFIPC Scandal and the Urgent Reforms Required By Tunde Rahman When Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew walked into Phase III Section of the Federal Secretariat in...