Articles and Opinion
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Obasanjo: The making of a fake crusader
By Olalekan Paul Obasanjo’s alarm about a West African Fulanisation, & Islamization agenda is a devious ploy by the ever...
The legends of Aso Rock
By Sufuyan Ojeifo President Muhammadu Buhari’s second tenure began with a low-key inauguration at the Eagle Square in Abuja, a scenario that decidedly...
NSIP And Buhari’s War On Poverty
By Olu Tayo With 80 million Nigerians classified as poor, the war against poverty is not only a herculean task, but presents formidable...
Naiveté as Obaseki’s hubris
By Sufuyan Ojeifo I haven’t met the governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, before. My closest to “meeting” him is seeing him...
Oshiomhole’s stewardship: Shuaibu and his warped narratives
By Sufuyan Ojeifo The Deputy National Chairman (North) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Lawali Shuaibu, recently orchestrated a storm in a...
Ebie: A Reformer Takes Charge of Okowa’s Govt’s ‘Engine Room’
A few hours before Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State formally announced his unexpected appointment as Secretary to the State Government, Chiedu Ebie was...
Arakunrin Akeredolu: Making Ore an industrial hub
By Steve Otaloro The mention of Ore town will send chills down the spines of so many persons who either witnessed or participated...
9th Senate Presidency Race: Why Danjuma Goje is the man to beat
By Sebastian Anuforo At no time since 1999 has the race for the senate presidency been so competitive in a robustly healthy manner....
Malami As Next AGF? Buhari’s Tough Choice
By Wole Solomon If there are cabinet positions which many regard as prestigious and highly influential, one of them would certainly be the...
U.S. Salutes Health Champions in Nigeria Leading Efforts to End Malaria By Amb Symington
By W. Stuart Symington, United States Ambassador to Nigeria On World Malaria Day, the United States is proud to recognize our partnership...
Like Atiku, Like Shugaba Darman
BY TURAKI HASSAN On January 24, 1980, in the heydays of the administration of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), Nigerian immigration...
Still On the Value Added Tax (VAT) Debate
By Sen Babafemi Ojudu On my page I posted a while ago a contribution by Prof Familoni to the debate on whether or...
At a crossroads
By Sufuyan Ojeifo In 2015, no room was created to interrogate the conduct of the presidential election in which an incumbent president kissed...
Things that pertain to our peace
By FEMI ADESINA I’d never had the head for figures. In fact, the enmity between me and mathematics was so bad that...
Governor Amosun’s danse macabre
By Sufuyan Ojeifo The most distasteful theatre of the absurd yet in the electioneering drives of...
National Peace Committee and el-Rufai’s “body-bag” threat
By Sufuyan Ojeifo By this time in 2015, the drums of war were sounding with much ferocity such that morbid fears...
