General Akinrinade reacts to the statement by former President OlusegunObasanjo. The recent statement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the recently concluded elections must be condemned in the strongest terms by democracy loving Nigerians and those who care about the unity of this country. His statement coming at a time when the Independent National Electoral […]
Conduct modern research to raise African culture – Ooni
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, has charged members of the Academics to conduct research to modernise the Culture of African people so as to promote it among the cultures of other people in the world. Oba Ogunwusi made the assertion while speaking at the inauguration of Professor Jeleel Ojuade as the third vice-chancellor […]
A letter bomb to Atiku Abubakar by Churchill Dandjuma
You are a symbol of the past failures and the politically corrupt in Nigeria. With all due respect, therefore, I, on behalf of millions of Nigerians want to remind you that you should shut up when we are discussing anti-corruption challenges and the way forward. I laughed cynically when I heard you brag that you […]
Between Kadara Ahmed and the BBC
By Ivor Ekpe I Stand FIRMLY with Kadaria Ahmed. Unfortunately there is an error people are making about the BBC kerfuffle and it is borne of both IGNORANCE and clouded DISLIKE for Government and Nigeria. 1. Have you ever seen the BBC show you the Dead as a result of terrorist activities within the UK […]
The Nigerian Economy: Between the Federal Ministry of deficit and debt, and the central bank of politics
By Kingsley MoghaluAugust 4, 2023 It’s not often I agree with Nigeria’s Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed. Not because of anything but because I fundamentally disagree with what I consider her fiscal mismanagement of Nigeria. But at least she recently gave an honest assessment of how broke-assed Nigeria is now. As for my dear beloved […]
For a time like this, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is critical to our survival
Petra Akinti Onyegbule. I wish to begin this piece by saying I am not oblivious to the disappointment felt by many supporters and members of the All Progressives Congress based on the performance of the last couple of years from an administration we invested so much in. I am also not so conceited to dismiss […]
Religion, The Nigerian Demon
by Dele Alake Physically remote but fully involved in the processes leading up to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory at the APC primaries and also in the power play that led to the emergence of Senator Kashim Shettima as the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, it was with quixotic astonishment and predictable […]
2023: Tinubu, those who don’t care if Nigeria ever rises
Once upon a time, the state was an “urban jungle.” If you walked around the noise-polluted streets, which were overcrowded with rickety commuter buses, cars, cart pushers and wheel barrows and thronging with screaming street traders, ubiquitous markets stalls around pole-high refuse heaps and putrefying gutter oozes, you might find one or two human corpses decomposing on […]
Nigeria at Intensive Care Unit
Across sectors, the tempest in Nigeria had doubled, and in some cases, tripled with the failed regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Sai Baba is not the sui generis of Nigeria’s woes, but he has forced Nigerians to tread more throes. Like Umar R.A would smile and sob anytime he remembered the […]