Articles and Opinion
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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...
That Danjuma’s Outburst
“We mean to hold our own. I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the...
The Leah Sharibu Symbolism
By Sufuyan Ojeifo Liya (Leah) Sharibu is the name of the only Dapchi schoolgirl who is still in the captivity of those who...
