Articles and Opinion
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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...
Carnage and poverty as national tragedies
By Sufuyan Ojeifo Two existential issues -security and poverty-that bear great relevance to the assessment of performance of governments globally reared their heads...
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...
