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Op-Ed Editor September 9, 2014

Opinion: Why the PDP should present a Northerner as presidential candidate

by Adams Abonu It is an open secret that President Goodluck Jonathan will seek re-election as we approach the 2015 General Election. That the machinery of the Peoples Democratic Party…

Op-Ed Editor August 20, 2014

YNaija Editorial: Of course, President Jonathan can – and should – contest

This needs be clear - the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) is not an impartial, objective organization.It is a sworn enemy of President Goodluck Jonathan and has been an equal-opportunity condemner of everything…

Op-Ed Editor August 19, 2014

Femi Aribisala: #BringBackOurGirls is a tool by the North against Jonathan

by Femi Aribisala The only way the APC can redeem its perception as a janjaweed party is by putting forward a South-South man as its presidential candidate in 2015. The…

Op-Ed Editor August 13, 2014

Deji Adeyanju: Is it the ‘Political Boko Haram’ that tried to kill Buhari?

by Deji Adeyanju Then, of recent certain activities like the Nyanya bombing, the Emab bombings and the assassination attempt on General Mohammed Buhari which many people believe was staged has…

July 29, 2014

Demola Rewaju: If Buhari had died, there will have been a coup (Y! Superblogger)

by Demola Rewaju If Buhari had died last week, a coup would be inevitable in the next one month and perhaps ‘a raba’ would be the cry of the northern secessionists…

July 12, 2014

Zainab Suleiman Okino: Boko Haram and the sad realities of ethno-religious profiling

by Zainab Suleiman Okino Their chilling narration of drinking their urine out of thirst and not being allowed to say their prayers, makes you wonder whether their tormentors are aware of…

July 9, 2014

Opinion: It is time to break Nigeria up

by Damola Awoyokun We want a good-bye-to-all-that referendum now. And the National Conference sitting in Abuja should make itself useful by setting a date for one. Enough is…

July 4, 2014

Opinion: Our nation’s elusive unity

by Enenim Ubon Right from the amalgamation, it was clear that the Northern and Southern protectorates have nothing in common and would have been better off as separate entities “One…

June 26, 2014

Garba Shehu: As the North grabs its fate in its hands

by Garba Shehu The communiqué also strongly disagreed with the malicious linking of Islam to bandits who merrily kill, kidnap and trample on innocent persons and businesses, as well as…

June 23, 2014

Tunde Leye: Reporting Nigeria – What is good for the goose (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye Why then does the media find it so convenient to report events about Nigeria in prisms and narratives of Muslim North against Christian South, or Oil Rich…

June 16, 2014

Femi Fani-Kayode: National Conference and the explosive words of Dr. Junaid Mohammed

by Femi Fani-Kayode Junaid speaks for many in the north and the implications of his submission are obvious and far reaching. Particularly those contained in the last sentence about resource…

June 13, 2014

US posts $18m bounty on Boko Haram, North’s only woman Emir dies & other important news you should know today

by Oge Okonkwo US posts $18m bounty for Nigeria’s Boko Haram The United States posted $18 million in rewards Friday for the capture of four African militants involved in the…

June 5, 2014

Ogaga Ifowodo: The Northern victory in the derivation contest

by Ogaga Ifowodo The “North,” it must be remembered, was dragged into Nigeria screaming and kicking. Its disdain for Nigeria has been evident right from when Sir Ahmadu Bello would…

May 30, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Gospel according to Osuntokun, Sani and Aliyu

by Akin Osuntokun Were the country not acutely divided over the 2011 and the fraught 2015 elections, the Boko Haram insurgency would have been readily containable. Contemporary Nigeria is…

May 30, 2014

Okey Ndibe: Nigeria is at war

by Okey Ndibe Since Nigeria is at war, it behoves Mr. Jonathan—who must have access to more information than the rest of us—to unmask the antagonists. If he has solid…

May 14, 2014

Rudolf Okonkwo: Nigeria after Boko Haram

by Rudolf Okonkwo The North will never be the same after Boko Haram. The people of the North will have to make hard choices. Will they hold their leaders accountable…

May 11, 2014

Theophilus Ilevbare: Why the North’s dependence on oil revenue is festering terrorism

by Theophilus Ilevbare In the most dishonest manner, northern leaders have taken a stand in the face of profoundly disturbing spate of bloodletting; they blame the poverty in the North…

May 6, 2014

Femi Aribisala: It’s decision time for the South west

by Femi Aribisala From experience, the South-West has learnt to survive without political power at the centre. How then can the same Bola Tinubu who schemed Mulikat Akande, a Yoruba…

May 2, 2014

Tunde Leye: Dear Mr. Buhari, your influence is critically needed

by Tunde Leye General Buhari is acclaimed to be very influential in the North and this has been proven by how he won 12million largely northern votes using a…

May 1, 2014

Perry Brimah: Northern governors have failed the citizens

by Perry Brimah If the Federal security forces fail to secure your domain, if they fail to arrest a single sponsor of terror when many of these are well known,…

April 28, 2014

Michael Orodare: It is wrong to blame Jonathan for Boko Haram massacres (Y! Politico)

by Michael Orodare The Northern leaders have failed their people and the unborn generation will find it hard to forgive them for this generational flaw. Their sin; under their watch…

April 16, 2014

Opinion: The Muslim/Musim ticket is actually a good option for the APC

by Obinna Akukwe With a militarized Muslim population, the nation will likely boil again as it did under during June 12, if INEC chief, Prof Attahiru Jega declares Jonathan the…

April 11, 2014

Chidi Onumah: What does the North really want? (Part 2)

by Chidi Onumah I don’t know what goes on in the minds of the likes of Bugaje, Mohammed and their fellow travellers in the NEF and ACF when they have…

April 11, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: The nuisance value of a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket

by Akin Osuntokun It is provocative and fraught with the danger of lending its platform, wittingly or not, to sectarian bigotry, chauvinism and conflagration. One of the novelties of the…

April 5, 2014

Chidi Onumah: What does the North really want?

by Chidi Onumah Of course, Bugaje is not the first person from the “North” to theorize about the source and ownership of the oil in Nigeria. During the dictatorship of…

April 1, 2014

Atiku Abubakar: What the National Conference should focus on

by Atiku Abubakar I come from the north, and I can tell you that government’s reliance on oil revenues has virtually destroyed the economy of the north, and no part…

March 27, 2014

Femi Fani-Kayode: The arrogance of the North at the National Conference

by Femi Fani-Kayode The same way they have been behaving since the creation of the Nigerian state is the same way they are aggressively exhibiting their character at this confrence.…

March 26, 2014

Perry Brimah: Northern Nigeria is under the siege of terrorists

by Perry Brimah Is there top level government involvement in the terror operations decimating the north which is permitting such utility of choppers in Nigerian airspaces to ferry terrorist and…

March 22, 2014

Perry Brimah: Does President Jonathan hate the North?

by Perry Brimah This Northophobia is evident in the widely commented about failure of the President to visit the terrorized regions to empathize with the people and in his failure…

March 10, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: A history lesson – Nigeria’s first coup

by Cheta Nwanze To understand first, the coup of January 15, 1966, we must not take it in isolation, something that a lot of people tend to do. We must…

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