Tag: opinion

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August 4, 2013

Dele Sobowale: Gen. Alabi-Isama versus Obasanjo – Will a duel follow?

by Dele Sobowale   From the gang-up at the book launch, it would appear that Baba Iyabo is on his ...

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August 4, 2013

Opinion: Boys to men – The truth about adolescence

by Perry Brimah Ultimately our youth must be brought to the discussion table now and individually at their time. Youth ...

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August 4, 2013

Opinion: Saving the Catholic Church from Nigerians

by Erwin Ofili We must all act now to prevent the same disease that has afflicted the Nigerian government from ...

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August 4, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: The tacky business of domestic deportation

by Tunde Fagbenle …what is called for is the necessity for other states to hold their governors responsible for the ...

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August 4, 2013

Femi Aribisala: Christians, confessing you are healed will not heal you

by Femi Aribisala The church is a hospital.  Imagine you walked into the General Hospital, only to find all the ...

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August 4, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Now that the APC has been registered

by Simon Kolawole With the fusion of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Congress ...

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August 3, 2013

Opinion: Time to ‘fix’ the North or ‘bury’ it

by Muhammad Sani Dattijo The leaders of the north have a decision to make today. And it is more important ...

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August 3, 2013

Opinion: Of Okotie’s FRESH party and INEC deregistration

by Juli Ashiru Selective justice is a subversion of the democratic process… Every Nigerian has a right to belong to ...

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August 3, 2013

Opinion: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – A prophet without honour in her country

by Omolara Williams And the surprising thing is that, even while our legislators and other not-so-informed people at home are ...

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August 3, 2013

Opinion: Sen. Yerima and the self-professed progressives

by Muyiwa Adetiba I would also have loved to know how many daughters Senator Yerima has and what the fate ...

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August 3, 2013

Dele Momodu: Now that the APC has come alive…!

by Dele Momodu  But APC should not be over-confident. What binds PDP together is very strong, access to power and ...

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August 3, 2013

Opinion: Arsenal, Suarez and the end of football’s moral high ground

by Adebayo Kareem However footballing ability alone has never been and should not form the basis of signing a footballer, ...

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August 2, 2013

Opinion: Transformation Agenda – We have so far failed in politics and economics

by Adisa Adeleye A glaring weakness of the economic transformation programme is its stubborn reliance on paper growth based on ...

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August 2, 2013

Tunji Olaopa: Taking youth development to the next level

by Tunji Olopa What is the nature of the youth strategy required to harness the youth in Nigeria? What is ...

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August 2, 2013

Opinion: MASSOB – When the blind leads the blind

by Tochukwu Ezukanma He is neither a scholar nor an intellectual; a philosopher nor a deep thinker; a sophisticate nor ...

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August 2, 2013

Opinion: The Lagos ‘deportation’ and fallacious reasoning

by Francis Oriunebho If anybody did any wrong here it is the Government of Anambra, who let down these people ...

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August 2, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: APC – Memo to a new party

by Pius Adesanmi Why is Tom Ikimi, a former Chairman of the National Republican Convention who subsequently helped General Sani ...

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August 2, 2013

Opinion: Dikko, Dickson and the ‘judases’ in the PDP

by Uche Igwe As an aside, who are those supporting President Jonathan with political permutations and strategies? Do they really ...

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August 1, 2013

Naomi Lucas: A letter to Mr. President – What we really want

by Naomi Lucas We don’t want much Mr. President. All we want is a country that works. If you really ...

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July 28, 2013

Opinion: Reclaiming Nigeria’s lost history through early education

by Kemi Ogunniyi Schools in developed nations take history very seriously. Primary and secondary school students in the UK, for example, ...

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July 27, 2013

Opinion: Nigeria – Haunted by our inability to learn from history

by  Mobolaji Sanusi What the nation is seeing today in the form of political lawlessness and unprincipled governance are products of ...

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July 26, 2013

Diezani Alison-Madueke: Innovation and change in the Petroleum Industry

by Diezani Alison-Madueke The supply of petroleum products at controlled prices to riverine communities in the Niger Delta has been ...

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July 24, 2013

Opinion: 10 laws to make what you want happen

by Mustapha Rabiu Regardless of what’s cool, read avidly, and rigorously. Talk to clever people. Share what you learn, perhaps ...

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July 24, 2013

Opinion: The case against legalised rape in Nigeria

by Adewoyin Joseph Why deprive that child of proper mental, physical, and physiological development she deserves? Why drag her into motherhood and ...

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July 24, 2013

Opinion: All these tribalism and religious sentiments need to stop

by Ologbenla Adedeji Samuel Rather than face the issue on ground, we hastily point sentimental accusing finger to religion and ethnicity. ...

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July 23, 2013

Tunde Kara: My musings for Wura (30 Days, 30 Voices)

I do not ask that you return; I do not ask that you not run – far from it… Hey ...

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July 23, 2013

An entrepreneur’s journey – Reach out and touch someone (Part 2)

by Mofolusade Sonaike  A mentality of poverty is a limiting one. Any person with that mindset cannot dare to dream, ...

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July 22, 2013

Opinion: We are fighting the wrong battle on child marriage

by Ezebuike Temple ….section 277 of the Act supra defines a child as any one below 18 years of age, ...

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July 20, 2013

Opinion: Child marriage and the leadership question

by Philip Amiola Underage marriage is just another euphemism for child abuse. Actually, it is tantamount to pedophilia. Merely contemplating ...

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July 19, 2013

Anosi Imhoitsike: The Nigerian youth – Water, blood and everything in between (30 Days, 30 Voices)

by Anosi Imhoitsike It would be like the Arab Spring, where people set themselves on fire, scream “Ash-shab yurid isqat ...

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