Articles and Opinion

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NDDC: Making a paradigm shift from the old 

By Tamunodie Preye It is good for leaders to be provoked once in a while or as the need arises. But only provocation...

The Power of Thanksgiving by Oge Modie

By Oge Funmilola Modie We are almost halfway into the year 2018 and you are probably thinking that you are behind in some...

OGP Week: A thought for a day

By Tijah Bolton-Akpan From 7th to 11th of May, 2018, Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark the global Open Government...

The tyranny of the gavel by Patrick Obahiagbon

  By Patrick Obahiagbon Having enjoyed the privilege of spending eight years in the Edo State House of Assembly during which I was...

Gutsy Atiku Abubakar By Sufuyan Ojeifo

Just recently, former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Waziri Adamawa, said he was not desperate to be president of Nigeria.  But, to...

That Urhoghide’s audacious impeachment motion

By Sufuyan Ojeifo Mankind has conferred a sort of notoriety of repetition on history.  That is the reason for the history-repeats-itself cliché that...

Senate Invasion: Parliament Respect Your Own Rules

Suleiman Kabiru Watching last week’s invasion of the Senate chambers by thugs last week on television shocked me to my bone marrow. The...

RE: Ordeal of Boko Haram girls – Wall Street Journal’s Despicable Hatchet Job

  By Emmanuel Ogebe I just returned to the US from the field where I was working with victims as I have since...

Buhari’s 2019 bid and matters arising

by Garba Shehu The country is gearing itself up for the General Elections in February next year and with President Muhammadu Buhari announcing...

Senate and Omo-Agege’s absurd theatrics  

By Sufuyan Ojeifo If the invasion of the Senate in plenary on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 by two thugs sponsored by suspended Senator...

Why I’ll vote Buhari again and again by Femi Adesina

The greatest talking point in our country this week has been the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari that he would seek a second...

Abacha Loot: The Myth and the Propaganda

By John Ainofenokhai The Swiss government last week confirmed, through its ambassador to Nigeria, Chad, Niger and the Economic Community of West African...

That House Committee’s Indictment of Malami

Kabiru Madaki I have never been a fan of legislative hearings in this country. And I know there are many Nigerians who share...

Court of law or court of bills: When courts are without standing

By Dr. Ali Ahmad (Speaker, KWHA) As far as one knows, no court in the United States of America has ever issued an...

The $322 million repatriated Abacha loot: Matters miscellany

By Sufuyan Ojeifo I got a credible information last week from some grapevines in Abuja that the much-talked about outstanding sum of $322...

Senate 2019: Delta South Rallies Support for Emmanuel Uduaghan

Electorates in the Delta South Senatorial District have vowed not to treat the 2019 elections with kid’s gloves, especially as it has to...