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Of Oppprtunists, Scavengers, Blackmailers and Vitriolic Attacks on Mele Kyari
By Engr Kunle Sajimi The drawback of achievements and accomplishments in public life is that it often sparks jealousy and unrestrained animosity towards...
Kevin McCarthy and the Travails of Democracy by Dakuku Peterside
“Why should we be interested in the impeachment of McCarthy in the US? There are parallelisms in the issue of trust and mechanics...
Hajia of the Poor by Senator Babafemi Ojudu
In this photograph with me is Hajia Maryam Uwais, a lawyer, a wife, a mother and an activist. In Yoruba when a man...
Stop The Blackmail: Mele Kyari, NNPC Not The Problem by Tajudeen Suleiman
In an open letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu by one Abba Muyiwa Oseni published by some newspapers on Friday, October 6, under...
Adokiye Tombomieye, OON: Unseen hand, workaholic, engineer of uncanny ability at NNPCL by Engr Leke Oyesile
In every team sport there is always an unsung hero. In football, he is often the man in the midfield or defence who...
Burna Boy: Why Patrick Doyle was right by Yemie Adeoye
For starters, I do not support or endorse negativity in whatever form, especially as the subject matter has been erroneously captured or construed....
China’s Leadership Playbook and Nigeria’s reality by Dakuku Peterside
China’s growing influence has forced countries, especially in Africa, to navigate a changing geopolitical and resource control landscape. How these implications unfold will...
Punch Got It Wrong On NNPC And $3 Billion Loan by Tajudeen Suleiman
In its editorial of Friday August 25 that read more like a diatribe against President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company...
Coup: ECOWAS says no plan to invade Niger Republic by Paul Ejime
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) “has not declared war on the people of Niger nor is there any plan to...
Wale Edun: A bright star aloft Tinubu administration’s economic agenda
By Femi Soneye Even before the inauguration of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration on May 29, 2023, media projections had favoured Wale...
Challenging The New Ministers by Dakuku Peterside
Three recent developments are the focus of people with a keen interest in the political affairs of Nigeria at the moment. The first...
Tinubu’s war drums in Niger Republic By Dr. Bisi Olawunmi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s federal government of Nigeria is rearing to go to war in Niger Republic. Is history repeating itself? Twelve years...
ECOWAS Still Mulls High-Risk Military Option in Niger by Paul Ejime
Regional leaders ended their second emergency summit on Niger in Abuja on Thursday 10th August, by “ordering the deployment of the ECOWAS Standby...
Niger coup and geopolitics in ECOWAS region By Paul Ejime
A major decision of the July 30 emergency Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is the seven-day ultimatum, which...
Niger: Trouble In The Neighborhood by Dakuku Peterside
Niger Republic is Nigeria’s next-door neighbour. She is not the best neighbour Nigeria would desire but, as a sovereign nation, we have no...
This deity called petrol by Dakuku Peterside
To be precise from the onset, it is apt to posit that the centrality, omnipresence and ubiquitous nature of petrol in Nigeria has...
