By Don Ubani The fundamental responsibility of government, the world over, is the protection of life and property of her citizens. The welfare…
View More Urgency Of Proactivity on President Buhari against threats to bomb Abuja by Boko Haram this XmasCategory: Opinion
Severance pay and severe pain
By Simon Kolawole For Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, director-general of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), these are not the nicest of times. He must…
View More Severance pay and severe painThe latest slogan in town: I weep for Nigeria
By Ademola Adeoye When the month of November was about retiring to bed, having labored productively for thirty days, a window was opened on…
View More The latest slogan in town: I weep for NigeriaGoing Down Memory Lane.
By Izuu John Goodman Prior to 2015 election, I heard as one of the campaign promises of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the…
View More Going Down Memory Lane.Dangote, the Congo plant and the imperative of African industrialisation
The Dangote Group of Nigeria, one of the pre-eminent industrial conglomerates in Africa, in pursuit of its pan-African development and emancipation strategy, on November 23,…
View More Dangote, the Congo plant and the imperative of African industrialisationAs rolling stone Atiku rolls again
Atiku Abubakar is an intense political hunter who smells opportunity like a bloodhound smells rabbit. However, his resignation from APC last Friday and his impending…
View More As rolling stone Atiku rolls againBy resigning from APC, Atiku has found salvation
Yes, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC). I consider his action a deus ex machina. The caterwauling and refrain…
View More By resigning from APC, Atiku has found salvationObiano: Did the people really speak?
By Niran Adadokun Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State was on Sunday declared winner of the November 18, 2017 governorship election in the state. It was a landslide…
View More Obiano: Did the people really speak?Okorocha’s commercial monumentalism
By Louis Odion The most recognizable symptoms of clinical delusion is usually an obsession with inanities. Bizarre developments in Imo lately should then be…
View More Okorocha’s commercial monumentalismFROM HERO TO ZERO: The ‘end’ of Mugabe
Eight months before he tendered his resignation, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, revolutionary and politician, vowed to stay in power till “God says come”. Perhaps he knew…
View More FROM HERO TO ZERO: The ‘end’ of MugabeSo many things to reform
In my primary four, the Yoruba text book we read was ‘Kola ati Kemi’ — a series of short stories depicting the “adventures” of two…
View More So many things to reformSpeech of President Buhari in Ebony State
SPEECH DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE STATE VISIT TO EBONYI ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2017, AT…
View More Speech of President Buhari in Ebony StateStill on the political wind blowing in eastern Nigeria
By Magnus Onyibe On November 18, the governorship election in Anambra state will hold. The stakes are very high as Peter Obi, the immediate past governor…
View More Still on the political wind blowing in eastern NigeriaMy View on Anambra 2017 guber debate
BY SIR DON UBANI; KSC, JP Saturday, 18th November, 2017 is a date every ear in Nigeria will strenuously stretch to hear news from…
View More My View on Anambra 2017 guber debatePMB’s 2018 Budget: Where cometh our health?
Mike Ozekhome, SAN Since attaining self-rule in 1960, Nigeria has made several attempts at enthroning virile democracy, with some always ending in a fiasco.…
View More PMB’s 2018 Budget: Where cometh our health?Buhari: Born again at 75
President Muhammadu Buhari is trying to do new things. He has announced payment of pensions for ex-Biafran police officers who were granted presidential pardon in…
View More Buhari: Born again at 75ECOWAS and challenges of single currency
A single currency for the ECOWAS region is the ultimate objective of member-states. It is, however, the most difficult part of the integration process because…
View More ECOWAS and challenges of single currencyKogi: Dino Melaye’s sour grapes
By Bayo Eniojukan The real and behind-the-scene motives for the unrelenting mischief by well-known enemies of the people of Kogi State should be obvious…
View More Kogi: Dino Melaye’s sour grapesKogi: A state on the edge
Today’s generation of young people is the largest the world has ever known as more than half of the global population is under 30. But,…
View More Kogi: A state on the edgeNigeria’s senate and its basket of empty probes
The Nigeria senate is impotent. So impotent that it engages in theatrical probes to conceal the absence of a legislative manhood. I have followed the…
View More Nigeria’s senate and its basket of empty probesOn Buhari’s second term bid
By Ebuka Nwankwo For some Nigerians, who expected so much from this administration at its inception, this isn’t the best time to talk of…
View More On Buhari’s second term bidBaba, Maina, Idris and other stories
By Reuben Abati “I hear say our Sai Baba don return from Turkey” “Did you hope that he would stay there permanently? He went for…
View More Baba, Maina, Idris and other storiesPsychological effect of paying pension to Biafran police
Ebuka Nwankwo By accepting an Igbo running mate and granting pardon to Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu in 1981, former President Shehu Shagari showed commitment to…
View More Psychological effect of paying pension to Biafran policeNobody cares, by Dele Giwa
This article, written by Dele Giwa — one of finest journalists that Nigeria has produced — was first published in the Newswatch edition of January 27,…
View More Nobody cares, by Dele Giwa