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Opinion: The APC and remoulding the Nigerian party system
by Jibrin Ibrahim The Professor Jega led INEC has always shown concern for a party system that expressed scant regard to democratic rules in their internal affairs. INEC, I believe,…
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Opinion: I shed hot tears for Nigeria’s future
by Akan Imoh Our students are at home, our poor lecturers are hungry, yet it is the least of worries for those in power. How can the education of our…
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Opinion: Lessons learnt from the Igbo deportation saga
by Ochereome Nnanna If the Governors’ Forum focused on the right things, Mr Peter Obi of Anambra State would answer the phone when Fashola calls him. Obi would not only…
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Opinion: Islamic terrorists and presidential committee on security challenges
by Rotimi Fasan It must be realised that patience is wearing thin among those most affected by the activities of these terrorists and their bottled anger might boil over in…
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Abimbola Adelakun: Between Mugabe, Obasanjo and Orwellian pigs
by Abimbola Adelakun But then, given Obasanjo’s antecedents and his role in engendering the culture of do-or-die elections in Nigeria, precisely what qualifies him to be a lead election monitor…
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Opinion: The judicial derobing of INEC’s Jega
by Emmanuel Onwubiko INEC should leave the smaller political parties alone; resist attempt to stifle growth of democracy but instead should introduce policies to restore credibility to this badly dented…
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Opinion: Nigerian legislators are cats with nine lives
by Josef Omorotionmwan When it comes to playing to the gallery, the House of Representatives is certainly smarter than the Senate. This is what the much-touted idea of autonomy for…
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Opinion: Domestic appendage – Wole Soyinka should recede from frontline politics
by Corlenius Segun-Ojo Culturally, it is indisputable that our society does not condone assault of any kind on womanhood. When a family brawls and the elders wade in, the man…
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Opinion: The hapless surrender of states to the federal government
by Ogaga Ifowodo The solution to the Rivers House of Assembly crisis ought not to be more than subjecting to the rule of law the five members bent on trampling…
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Opinion: The big dilemma in the local government reforms
by Nasiru Suwaid To be sure, none of the issues in contention in the current reviewed document, has presented a clear and a glaring case of injustice, as the way…
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Eddie Iroh: On Kabiru Turaki’s ill-advised tirade against the media
by Eddie Iroh Turaki launched a tirade against the media, the very institution he needs more than they need him to bring assurance and reassurance to a jittery populace. As…
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Opinion: How Asari-Dokubo became a ‘big man’
by Ebenezer Obadare ...although there is a notional forswearing of violence, this is strategically counterbalanced by frequent threats to ‘return to the creeks’, as seen in the example with which…
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Eric Osagie: Can this APC kill our pains?
by Eric Osagie However, for many Nigerians, who do not belong to any political party, the nagging questions have been: Can they? Can this APC kill our pains, cure our…
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Okey Ndibe: Lagos deportations and crisis of citizenship
by Okey Ndibe There’s some irony in the fact that Governor Fashola has done far more than most Igbo governors in recruiting people from other states, including Igbo, to work…
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Opinion: From ASUU with love
by Habeeb Kolade Therefore I must say, that this sudden love that they have for students and their welfare can be likened to the friendship of the hunter and his…
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Opinion: Al-Mustapha and the unnecessary public outburst
by Gabriel Okoro It is not in doubt, like the appellate court rightly observed, that someone "pulled the trigger" that killed the democracy heroine, but the big question remains: who…
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Opinion: Of APGA and Umeh’s recent victories
by Michael Jegede Reacting to the Appeal Court judgement in favour of Umeh, an estate surveyor by profession, Okwu insisted that the party under him remained the authentic APGA, describing…
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Opinion: There is darkness looming over northern Nigeria
by Perry Brimah And with the lack of northern role models, the scarcity of northern activists and truthful historians, the famine of northern writers, the bankruptcy of true religious leaders…
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Opinion: A tale of two nations in America – White, black, equal and hostile
by Bayo Oluwasanmi The era of Jim Crow and the dark days of KKK are progressively creeping back into the fore of American race relations. As a black man in…
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Opinion: Misconstruing impeachment parameters in the Constitution
by Charlie Agboriso Liberalising the process of impeachment is akin to removing the immunity clause. In an environment with fledgling institutions, such an act will constitute a needless distraction to…
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Opinion: ASUU strike – A case for choosing a private university
by Ifeanyi Uddin Unable to answer these questions, I have committed to sending my child to a private university. The ambience of these remind of mission-run secondary schools of yore.…
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Opinion: Why I reject local government autonomy
by Ochereome Nnanna If you grant financial autonomy to local councils, the chairmen will turn into 774 demons and tin gods, just as we have 36 of them in the…
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Opinion: Confronting inter-regional disparities in Nigeria
by Ayo Teriba States/regions included in the growth processes are getting rich, just as those excluded from the growth processes, remain poor. Regions can now easily be grouped into the…
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Opinion: The timely arrival of the APC
by Ahmad B. Kaita One thing that should not be lost people is the fact that APC, just like PDP is going to be a party that will be managed…
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Opinion: Disagreeing with Adamu Adamu on the Hausa Fulani ‘problem’
by Ibraheem A. Waziri It is my hope that Nigeria will one day wake up to its responsibilities and invest in efforts at producing its own kind of public intellectualism…
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Ayodeji Rotinwa: A Cinderella story with a cause
by Ayodeji Rotinwa Attempting to recreate the classic Cinderella story in a new, innovative was always going to be an uphill task even for the most creative director/production house... If…
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Opinion: Reassessing president Jonathan’s leadership options
by Labaran Saleh Mr President has indeed been presidential and statesmanly in calming frayed nerves as well as taking punches from all spheres with equanimity. But for last week’s ill-fated…
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A rejoinder: On the Igbos – Of Femi Fani-Kayode’s ignorance and a proud display of it
by Ayokunle Odekunle What really have my fellow Yorubas contributed to Lagos State? What have they contributed to Lagos State that they have not been able to contribute to Ibadan,…
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Opinion: Naira – Redesign, redenomination or revaluation?
by Les Leba The advantages of redenomination may however, be short-lived, if the abiding economic instigators of inflation are not adequately tackled. In a recent interactive section with…
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Femi Fani-Kayode: Lagos, the Igbo and the servants of truth
by Femi Fani-Kayode The Igbo had little to do with the extraordinary development of Lagos between 1880 right up until today. That is a fact. Other than Ajegunle, Computer Village,…
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