Articles and Opinion

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Who is afraid of Emmanuel Uduaghan? By Julius Akpovire-Enyeh

The story of the immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan is synonymous to “Joseph” in the Holy Book, the...

2019 presidency: My pro-bono advice to PDP

By Sufuyan Ojeifo There is a burgeoning fallacy in the camp of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which seems to have gained...

Buhari In The Media: Hypocrisy Of Pen Pushers?

By Johnson Idara In this season and time, I do understand why truth, or its less amorphous sibling-objectivity, have become casualties in many...

2019 Presidential Election: Assessing the possibility of electoral fraud

By Omoshola Deji     After about thirty years of stern military rule, Nigeria re-embraced democracy in 1999 and five elections have produced...

Who is Afraid of Direct Primary Elections?

By Abba Adakole Our clever-by-half politicians have been all over the place of late. They have been defecting, re-defecting and un-defecting from one...

APC and the Beauty of Direct Primary Election

By Sufuyan Ojeifo The mode of primary election to select candidates for the 2019 general poll is currently, and largely unwarrantedly, threatening internal...

The Rule of Man

By Sufuyan Ojeifo President Muhammadu Buhari chose the most auspicious place to officially declare his disdain for the rule of law and his...

FRSC, Use of Phone and Technological Surveillance

By Sufuyan Ojeifo On Saturday, August 18, 2018, I set out on a drive to Grand Square in the Central Business District of...

APC and the deflated Buhari by Jackson Ude

By: Jackson Ude The atmosphere is charged, the romance and night meetings yielding fruits, the intrigues, subterfuge, game plans, all intertwined to make...

Lawal Daura: An encounter with Intelligence Chief

By Yushau A. Shuaib It was 24 hours after the official release of my book, “An Encounter with the Spymaster” in July 2017...

Of treacheries by political mercenaries

By Sufuyan Ojeifo “As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.  So Jesus told him, ‘What you are about to do,...

Finally, Nigerians contend with the Buhari hoax

  By Oladimeji Abitogun The Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, would be remembered as someone who carried on, for most of his adult life,...

Retelling Governance And The Prowling Ghost Of Hitler’s Joseph Goebbels by Dr. Godknows Igali

Incontrovertibly, the Germans are one of mankind’s most resourceful, resilient and progressive nationalities. In the course of world history, almost in all other...

Senator Omo-Agege’s comeuppance

By Sufuyan Ojeifo If he had taken time to review recent history and incidents of insolence in the National Assembly, perhaps, Senator Ovie...

Saraki and the infallibility of Supreme Court’s verdict

By Sufuyan Ojeifo The exculpation of senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki, last Friday, by the Supreme Court in the false asset declaration suit...

The House of Mourning by Oge Modie

As we wake up in the arms of our loved ones and in our warm homes, there are many today in the Northern...