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Editor January 4, 2021

Chude Jideonwo: Why DJ Switch is the Culture Icon of 2020

I cannot forget that evening in October when a dear friend rushed into the room to show me the video of DJ Switch (Obianuju Catherine Udeh) who had turned on…

Op-ed Editor January 11, 2017

The Media Blog: Abeg, Bola Tinubu should go and find several seats

Every now and again, people – including questionable characters who have not satisfactorily answered corruption allegations – mount a bully pulpit to accuse ‘the social media’ (a ridiculous term that…

Op-ed Editor November 7, 2016

Opinion: Stop violence and impunity against journalists

by Jide Ojo “I pay tribute to the courage of all media personnel who put their lives on the line for the sake of truth, and I call for immediate…

Op-ed Editor October 24, 2016

Opinion: I am Dele Giwa

by Yusuf Mohammed The year 1986 reminds me of two events. The first is the assassination of Dele Giwa and secondly as a football lover, Mexico ‘86 comes to mind…

Oludolapo Adelana October 20, 2016

“My brother’s killer is walking freely” – Dele Giwa’s sibling

Tunde, a younger brother of the slain founding Editor of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, is pained that his brother's killer is walking freely 30 years after, The Punch reports. Tunde who spoke on behalf of…

Kolapo Olapoju January 31, 2015

I take responsibility for my actions – IBB speaks on Dele Giwa & more (WATCH)

by Panshak Ibrahim Former Military head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, recently sat down for an interview on Kadaria Ahmed's "Straight Talk with Kadaria". During the interview, Babangida stated that he…

July 8, 2014

Jarus Oyewale: Who is Nigeria’s greatest columnist living or dead?- Part 1 (Y! FrontPage)

by Jarus Oyewale Other dead columnists that will seriously contend for that prize include Dele Giwa and Stanley Macebuh. Dele Giwa was Nigeria’s most popular journalist, no thanks to the…

March 3, 2014

Opinion: By honouring Abacha and IBB, Jonathan has canonized dictatorship

by Adeolu Ademoyo As a witness to the truth of that deadly period of Nigerian history I will like to know if President Jonathan asked for the Mohammed Gambo Jimeta…

October 19, 2013

Dele Momodu: Dele Giwa and the dilemma of a journalist

by Dele Momodu His former wife, Florence Ita-Giwa, recently told me she fell in love with Dele because of his effervescent style of writing. By the time they met there…

August 31, 2013

Demola Rewaju: Spirituality and the 5 messengers of intuition

by Demola Olanrewaju Irrational does not mean illogical – it means that there is an exact intelligence behind the gut feeling but it is not yet in your conscious mind.…

July 18, 2013

Olusegun Adeniyi: Al-Mustapha – The colour of justice

by Olusegun Adeniyi “The Don often quoted the saying, ‘Rather a hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man be punished,’ then added, ‘What a beautiful country.’” The foregoing…

February 6, 2013

Opinion: Our attitude towards Nigeria

by Sabella Abidde Why bother to faithfully serve this country when at the sunset of your life, she is likely to abandon you? Why? We are also a nation without…

January 16, 2013

Opinion: Is the ghost of Dele Giwa haunting IBB?

by Bayo Oluwasanmi The aged despot, a diabolical genius and a man with empty cranium with no droplets of wisdom declared that “Nigeria is bigger than Dele Giwa and that…

October 21, 2012

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: Between Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Dele Giwa (YNaija Frontpage)

I was bred under the military and had lived most of my formative years knowing nothing like civilian rule. For me, killings and murder were the norm as many more…

June 21, 2012

Pat Utomi: That our leaders may end up like Charles Taylor

by Prof. Pat Utomi In a mess of epic proportions, such as the fuel subsidy scam and the scam within the scam, as the House of Representatives tried to unravel…

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