by Isi Esene Unlike us mere mortals, President Barack Obama gets to meet and greet celebrities like Justin Timberlake, Queen Latifah, Jay Z, Beyonce and a host of others we…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu As a guest on a Kaduna based radio station, ex- Abia State governor Orji Uzor Kalu said he gave ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo N100 million to run his…
Read Moreby Bola Tinubu If development is about the people, all measures put in place for the sustenance and maintenance of the super-structure of the society must take into cognisance local…
Read Moreby Gbenga Olorunpomi In one week, the murders we have witnessed can only be compared to the genocide taking place in Syria at this point. And we are not officially…
Read Moreby Olabode Emmanuel Olawumi Probably, we just need to watch our backs by examining what we do as individuals. What do we believe in? What is driving us? Where are…
Read MoreBasic things of life are strange to us and our mothers worship the grounds our enslavers walk upon. I hope I get inspired to write about something else soon because…
Read Moreby Abdullahi Garba It is desperate opposition politicians who have a problem of presenting a credible track-record and an impressive score-sheet that Nigerian voters can rely on in deciding who…
Read MoreFormer President Bill Clinton wooed voters in the early 1990s with his jazzy saxophone skills -- skills he's been honing for a very long time. In this 1958 photo, 12-year-old Bill Clinton hangs…
Read Moreby Gbenga Olorunpomi Now, the ACN has shown its hand. It is time for the other partners to follow suit. On Thursday, April 18th, the leadership of the Action Congress…
Read Moreby Atom LimThe new cool is ‘activists’ accusing the rest of the Nigerian youth population of lacking interest in politics and not being involved, often without any proof.Lately, there has…
Read Moreby Akan Ido Dr. Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, speaks with the Punch Newspapers on the achievements of the president, Goodluck Jonathan, the…
Read Moreby Simon Kolawole Speaking out against injustice and highhandedness, no matter what part of the country is at the receiving end, is a better way of building a nation. One…
Read Moreby Michael Orodare They thought they were doing it right, not knowing they sat on a keg of gun-powder and their attitudes to the coming generation re-filled the keg daily.…
Read MoreNow you understand why your apartment was robbed 3 times last year. Some people really hate Mondays. Politics. I bet the Queen wouldn’t be impressed. No, wait, THIS is the…
Read Moreby Akan Ido In this interview with the Vanguard Newspapers, Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State talks about his party, the race for the 2015 elections, the opposition parties, Boko…
Read Moreby Editi Effiong In 1992, a Glencore oil trader got off the plane in Lagos with a briefcase filled with millions of dollars. His mission: meeting with a Niger Delta…
Read Moreby Debo Adejugbe One of the poster boys of that era is our present President who has gone on to break records in corrupt endeavors and in the process, templated…
Read MoreIn order to get 2015 right, a shift in perspective is required for us to slightly move away from our historical obsession with the Executive branch of government, and towards…
Read Moreby Ayisha Oshori There is so much we could and should be doing; instead, much of what we see and hear in preparation for 2015 is stale and typical. We…
Read Moreby Ibrahim Babangida Some of the mistakes of the past have now come to haunt us. But let me make one thing clear. Not all these mistakes were made out…
Read Moreby Ohimai Godwin Amaize Interestingly, our idea of social change has been reduced to the politics of merely taking sides every election year... We would rather tweet or write opinion…
Read Moreby Ohimai Amaize If you want to find young Nigerians who are bitter and angry with the Nigerian “system, Twitter is the place. I am, equally, on Twitter and I…
Read Moreby Raja Vudatala Even if punishment is justified who has the right to punish? Can a group of born criminals be entrusted to punish somebody? Can somebody who commits an…
Read Moreby Lydia Polgreen But the Alamieyeseigha scandal has in some ways eclipsed those gains and led many to wonder whether democracy will ever make government here more accountable. YENAGOA, Nigeria, Nov.…
Read Moreby Dele Momodu There is neither the will nor the resolve to create positive change. Like all others who love Nigeria, President Jonathan’s friend and confidant must be cringing at…
Read Moreby Osato Edokpayi As the ACN has demonstrated in the South-West and in Edo state; the PDP is not invincible. This union shall indeed stand tall to defeat the PDP…
Read Moreby Joachim MacEbong Ohimai Amaize Nigeria is a country with a large number of young people who are demanding more from their government all the time, and taking a greater…
Read MoreAhead of tomorrow’s deadline for the receipt of reports on the constitution and manifesto of the newly formed All Progressives Congress (APC), there are indications that no concrete decision…
Read Moreby Joan Walsh ...to suddenly suggest that the presidency should be reserved for people in their 40s or 50s is deeply unfair to women – as well as men –…
Read MoreThis is how our heroes are rewarded, shot like wild animals and left to die painfully; the much luckier ones die slowly, and watch helplessly as their pension and gratuity…
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