Articles and Opinion
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Adams Oshiomhole’s legerdemain
By Sufuyan Ojeifo Dateline: June 11, 2018. Abuja. Artificial barriers and shared prejudices crumbled like a pack of cards at the Ladi Kwali...
The Fruit Called Joy
By Oge Funlola Modie There are quite a number of things in life that seem not to matter until they’re lost. One of...
The ominous “bloodshed” in Ekiti
By Sufuyan Ojeifo It was the inimitable pioneer Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch magazine, the late Dele Giwa, who once wrote that one...
Ekiti’s ultimate governorship deal
By Sufuyan Ojeifo The stage is set for the July 14, 2018 Ekiti state governorship election. I call the contest the ultimate deal. It...
AGF Abubakar Malami and the wailers
Ismaila Suleiman It’s probably unlikely that Nigeria has had an Attorney General and Minister of Justice who has done so much within so...
How Journalism Can Help Beat Human Traffickers in Nigeria
WRITTEN BY Philip Obaji Jr. MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA – After the Boko Haram insurgency began in northeast Nigeria in 2009, thousands of people...
The real price of “change the change” campaign by Shehu Garba
By Garba Shehu On Tuesday, May 29, 2018, the Buhari/Osinbajo led government will clock three years in office. With elections less than...
2019: As PMB, Amaechi prospect for encore
By Sufuyan Ojeifo The Yoruba proverb-omo ina li a nran si ina-transliterated as – it is the child of fire that we send...
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...
