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 probesCategory: Opinion
On 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 GiwaAwo and the aesthetics of public sculptures
Let it be on record that the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, deserves kudos for the concerted efforts at changing the environment and landscape…
View More Awo and the aesthetics of public sculpturesAfricapitalism and amazing Tony Elumelu
By Magnus onyibe Few Africans have talked about pan Africanism and made it happen. And one of such people is Tony Elumelu, the self…
View More Africapitalism and amazing Tony ElumeluGarland for a xenophobe
By Wale Fatade You never know the next foolish thing from any of our governors in Nigeria. You think you’ve seen the worst…
View More Garland for a xenophobeTeach me to fish, please
By Simon Kolawale Two weeks ago, or a little more than that, I was at the midweek service in my church when the testimony…
View More Teach me to fish, pleaseOkonjo-Iweala, Adeosun, Ezekwesili, Ahmad… the list is endless
I love Serah Makka-Ugbabe. She’s the woman who heads ONE Campaign in Nigeria as the country director. She has extended role for Africa. The first…
View More Okonjo-Iweala, Adeosun, Ezekwesili, Ahmad… the list is endlessCatholic Church loses its public influence: Bishop Kukah
Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Hassan Kukah said the Catholic Church in Nigeria is beginning to lose its public influence partly because of the decline of…
View More Catholic Church loses its public influence: Bishop KukahCorruption and Aisha Buhari’s testimony
By Paul Onomuakpokpo It is increasingly becoming obvious that the President Muhammadu Buhari government is chafing under the affliction of a one-week-one-scandal syndrome. Unless…
View More Corruption and Aisha Buhari’s testimonyIBE KACHIKWU, NIGER DELTA AND THE SCIONS OF DANFODIO
By Charles Ogbu. I’ve said it before and it bears repeating now, President Muhammadu Buhari is an incurable ethno-religious Jingoist and a fulani supremacist…
View More IBE KACHIKWU, NIGER DELTA AND THE SCIONS OF DANFODIOIs TStv the one?
By Wale Fatade Thi Nigerians could be pardoned for the giddiness and excitement over the entrance of Telecom Satellite TV Africa into the world…
View More Is TStv the one?EU to support FG on Job Creation
The new EU envoy to Nigeria, Amb. Ketil Karlsen, has expressed the desire of the union to support the Nigerian government in creating employment opportunities…
View More EU to support FG on Job CreationSoutheast: The most mocked zone due to bad leaders
By Nwaokoma IZUCHUKWU The saying that leaders are born and not made is becoming so true considering the laxity, highhandedness and abysmal performance of…
View More Southeast: The most mocked zone due to bad leadersOn Ambode’s Awolowo statue
By Niran Adedokun If you do not want to incur the wrath of the average Nigerian unforgivably, do not hurt what they consider to…
View More On Ambode’s Awolowo statueTambuwal’s illegal pardon
By Wale Fatade Two months ago, this column wrote on how the Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, spent N700 million to buy a residential…
View More Tambuwal’s illegal pardonWe should outlive tribalism at 57
As Nigeria marks its 57th independence anniversary, some members of the House of Representatives say that peaceful coexistence was crucial for the development of the…
View More We should outlive tribalism at 57Tinubu, restructuring — and the day after
By Tunde Rahman The debate about the expediency – or otherwise – of restructuring has increasingly become a top-drawer issue, gaining momentum by the day…
View More Tinubu, restructuring — and the day afterNigeria: ls the military strong only against the weak?
By Magnus Onyibe On December 12, 2015 in Kaduna state, north-western Nigeria, the military allegedly mowed down hundreds of Shiite Muslims who allegedly tried to…
View More Nigeria: ls the military strong only against the weak?Legality of ‘special courts’ for corruption cases
By Chris Akiri On Monday, September 18, 2017, the learned Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Nkanu Samuel Onnoghen, at a special session organised…
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