Articles and Opinion
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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...
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...
