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Op-Ed Editor September 20, 2014

@GimbaKakanda : We are all circumstantial killers and potential beasts (Y! FrontPage)

by Gimba Kakanda “Can you even hold a gun?” “Shut up, if you see a real war, you will pee in your trousers!” “War is not for the feeble-minded like…

Op-Ed Editor September 19, 2014

@AristotleJames : The newsstand analyst in the scheme of 2015 (Y! FrontPage)

by Immanuel James Once in a while just stop and join them - those analysts at the newsstand. Not the noisy Premier League pundits, no. I mean those chaps who…

Op-Ed Editor September 17, 2014

@Uchekorie: Can we question these men of God? (Y! FrontPage)

by Uche Okorie I have always marvelled at Organized Religion- that structured pursuit of great interest often followed with great devotion by adherents which has an eerie capacity to not…

Op-Ed Editor September 16, 2014

@mcjarus: My encounter with a GEJ2015 group (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Finally, the “BRING BACK GEJ IN 2015” wind blew to my side. I opened my email Tuesday last week to see an invitation by the Founder of…

Op-Ed Editor September 10, 2014

Uche Okorie: Why are we all such ethnic bigots? (Y! FrontPage)

by Uche Okorie Most people have this rubicund opinion of themselves of being fair and unbiased in their approach to issues. Of course this is at best idealistic, bias is…

Op-Ed Editor September 7, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: Nigerian youths and the ‘get rich quick syndrome’ (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong Let’s cut a long story short. That section of Nigeria under the age of 35 inhabits a fabled existence. We want to get out of university (which…

Op-Ed Editor September 5, 2014

Immanuel James: Lagos International Airport and the audacity of shame (Y! FrontPage)

by Immanuel James About four years ago, President Goodluck Jonathan, during his electioneering in Lagos, had promised to reconstruct the road that leads to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, the…

Op-Ed Editor September 4, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Boko Haram, Stephen Davis and the strange tales from Perth (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir The most apt metaphor of the recent actions of Stephen Davis has to be John Le Carre’s book The Tailor of Panama and the iconic character of…

Op-Ed Editor September 3, 2014

Uche Okorie: #Ebola- An open letter to Nigerian doctors (Y! FrontPage)

by Uche Okorie Dear Dr Wazobia, Permit me to take five precious minutes of your time. Or less. Certainly less. It shouldn’t take you up to five minutes to read…

Op-Ed Editor September 2, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: How to win Boko Haram in one year (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale This week, for the first time since I was handed this column about four months ago, I will be conceding the space to someone else. My childhood…

Op-Ed Editor August 30, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: The Iraqi Christians and Northern Nigerian Christians are equal (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong Last Thursday, Olaiya Phillips, the chairman of the Northern Christian Elders Forum, movingly asked the world in the Huffington Post, “Are Iraqi Christians Worth More Than Nigerian…

Op-Ed Editor August 28, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: The march to Gwoza, the road to Mogadishu (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir TY Danjuma does not mince words, for he has no reason too, as a retired General who has fought in the trenches for the soul of Nigeria,…

Op-Ed Editor August 28, 2014

Uche Okorie: Nigerian scientists are critically endangered species (Y! FrontPage)

by Uche Okorie But for a late spurt of teenage rebellion I most probably would have been a medical doctor today or perhaps some form of scientist. You see, growing…

Op-Ed Editor August 26, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: How overzealous policemen killed citizen Elijah (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale When Lagos State government announced the restriction of commercial motorcycle operators (popularly known as okada) on major highways in Lagos state, I was one of the few…

Op-Ed Editor August 25, 2014

Tunde Leye: We need to move away from 1914 | Equip our military now (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye I am going to touch on a sensitive issue. I have read severally very lengthy and detailed analysis of the great and selfish error that led to…

Op-Ed Editor August 19, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: What if Ebola came though Seme border?

by Suraj Oyewale About two years ago, in a local football field in my estate, I had engaged a young man that came to play football on a Saturday evening.…

Op-Ed Editor August 18, 2014

Corruption is a country (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye They are forced to exit the country and work/slave to build countries who belong to the other half of the work. Once one removes the accents,…

Op-Ed Editor August 17, 2014

So, Jonathan should produce Chibok girls or forget 2015 ambition? (Y! FrontPage)

by Deji Adeyanju “The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has issued an ultimatum to President Goodluck Jonathan to bring an end to insurgency in all its manifestations and produce the abducted…

Op-Ed Editor August 17, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: Hamas is nothing like Boko Haram (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong If anything, Hamas is doing what all political parties charged with the sovereignty and collective responsibility for its country – respond in like manner, within its resources…

Op-Ed Editor August 14, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Hope for the Boko Haram victims

by Alkasim Abdulkadir In the final analysis, there is reassurance in the President's speech that this regime of violence is reaching its turning point “Let me reiterate clearly that evil…

Op-Ed Editor August 11, 2014

Tunde Leye: As Africans, our outcomes need to be better ( Y! FrontPage

by Tunde Leye All across Africa. We need better, cheaper outcomes. In Africa, when we face a problem, what the government announces as solutions is how much they are earmarking…

Op-Ed Editor August 9, 2014

Ayokunle Odekunle: A letter to my unborn child (Y! FrontPage)

by Ayokunle Odekunle *I wrote this article as a University undergraduate in 2009. I still feel the same...* Hello sweetie, I am staring into the dark now, reminiscing, and…

Op-Ed Editor August 8, 2014

Japheth Omojuwa: Dear Nigerians, salt and water cannot cure Ebola! (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa First it was bitter kola, now it is salt and water but a search through google would clearly show that none of these cure Ebola. This is…

Op-Ed Editor August 7, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Boko Haram and the abysmal rise of the likes of Reem Riyashi (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim AbdulkadirIn conclusion, as narrated by Abu Huraira, Prophet Muhammad PBUH observed that. He who killed himself with steel (weapon) would be the eternal denizen of the fire of…

Op-Ed Editor August 6, 2014

Bunmi Olaniyan: The citizen activism we saw in Nasarawa (Y! FrontPage)

by Bunmi Olaniyan I realised that rather than celebrate and revel in that much touted political revival ushered in by social media as a new platform for political participation, we…

August 4, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: The limits of salaried-job bashing (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale I have seen some young graduates and prospective graduates vowing they can never work for anyone and they will go straight into entrepreneurship. Good one, if you…

July 30, 2014

Bunmi Olaniyan: We have abandoned the Chibok girls to die. Sad! (Y! FrontPage)

by Bunmi Olaniyan In a series of tweets he asserted that on a BBC Hausa programme interviewing escaped Chibok girls, they asserted that they have been abandoned. His tweets continued…

July 27, 2014

Ikemesit Effiong: Living with ghosts of Kaduna (Y! FrontPage)

by Ikemesit Effiong Now, all I'm left with are ghosts. Ghosts that wake me up at night. Ghosts that ask me questions, engage me in conversations - about my life;…

July 23, 2014

Bunmi Olaniyan: Rumours, lies & my meeting with Oby Ezekwesili this week (Y! FrontPage)

by Bunmi Olaniyan I came away from the meeting with the former minister wiser and more clued in concerning several issues surrounding Bring back our girls which was opaque to…

July 22, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: Who is Nigeria’s greatest columnist, living or dead?- Part 2 (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Tolu is, to me, the greatest under-35 newspaper columnist in Nigeria at the moment. In the first part of this edition [READ HERE], I reckoned that based…

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