Opinion: On Gov. Akpabio’s insensitive pension bill

Opinion: No PR firm can save Jonathan’s battered image

by Jibrin Ibrahim By answering these questions and achieving results, the President can rebuild his credibility. Mr President, please forget the public relations firm and concentrate on the task the whole world is chanting. #BringBackOurGirls. On Thursday, the #BringBackOurGirls Movement marched on President Goodluck Jonathan to ask him certain questions and to give him our... Read More

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Opinion: Children’s Day – Remember the kids on the streets

by Nduka Udo As we celebrate children, let us think about the kind of Nigeria we want to hand over to our children. As Nigeria celebrates children’s day on May 27th, 2014, as is done every year, I have been privileged to move around to points where groups of children or individual children can easily... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi – The morning after (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale How high did he rank on personal integrity and morality? Well, I learnt not to put my money on anybody on this subject. Maybe, I’m a bit disappointed here. That I am a big fan of the erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, is very... Read More

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Reno Omokri: From battleground to common ground

by Reno Omokri The All Progressives Congress (APC) is a party founded on this premise. Those who are enemies of president and the PDP gathered together to form a party whose foundation is their common enemy. They share no ideological connection, neither are they friends In the season that we are in, I think it... Read More

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Bayo Oluwasanmi: As Pres. Jonathan attempts to polish his zero image

by Bayo Oluwasanmi Mr. Jonathan need PR image polish because he lacks the fire and the courage to bring about change that Nigerians desperately need. His complaints outweigh his compassion for the people. His reservation outweighs his resolution. His desperation outweighs his desires. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is in the market for... Read More

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Ayobami Oyalowo: Mr. President, leave if you can’t cope

by Ayobami Oyalowo If the kitchen is too hot for you and you can no longer cope, then GET OUT!!! “One commonly hears that carping critics complain about what is wrong, but do not present solutions. There is an accurate translation for that charge: ‘They present solutions, but I don’t like them.” ― Noam Chomsky,... Read More

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Theophilus Ilevbare: #BringBackOurGirls campaign and the evolution of hashtag activism

by Theophilus Ilevbare Granted that hashtag activism oversimplifies the complexities of events abroad, and even if well-intentioned, rarely affect things on the ground but same cannot be said of the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Hashtag online activism has continued to prove critics wrong in the amazingly unique way it amplifies disconsolate unheard minority voices, suppressed or subdued... Read More

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Femi Aribisala: The Boko Haram are not Northern Nigerians

by Femi Aribisala These points need to be underlined today, in the midst of all the Boko Haram atrocities in the North, especially since the terrorists often target Christians and non-Northerners. These marauders are the antithesis of everything noble; everything decent; and everything godly about Northerners. In the late 1980s, I was appointed Special... Read More

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Tunde Leye: Mr. President, lead and inspire us! (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye Mr. President sir, lead and inspire us. This cannot be too much to ask, considering the financial burden our nation carries for your office. Our President and his aides just don’t get it. When a person goes around before an election campaigning for votes to be elected as the President of this... Read More

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Opinion: God is not a Christian

by Fred Adetiba I hate religion, and I do not subscribe to any. I am not a Christian, but a Kingdom believer who subscribes to the values and principles of the Kingdom of God as taught by Jesus Christ. The average religious mind will shudder upon seeing this title. I cannot overemphasise how much I... Read More

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May 26, 2014

Opinion: Open letter to Aunty Diezani Allison Maduekwe

by Adetayo Adegbemle Aunty Die, you are wondering what is my own in this matter, right? Oh well, I will tell you. For every penny you steal, or misappropriate, you reduce the buying power of 170m Nigerians. Dear Aunty Die, Permit me to call you Aunty, Not like you have much choice though. For one,... Read More

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Perry Brimah: And now, the ecumenical city of Jos?! (A rejoinder)

by Perry Brimah No mortal is above error and criticism. May the good Lord permit me to grow as old as you and remain as wise as you have remained at that age. [READ: Wole Soyinka: And now, the ecumenical city of Jos?!] Respectfully Sir, professor, daddy and teacher of nations. With dictionary in hand,... Read More

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Sonala Olumhense: Pres. Jonathan’s presidency ran out long ago

by Sonala Olumhense At greater stake is Mr. Jonathan’s credibility, which is in tatters, shredded by errors of omission and commission. When President Goodluck Jonathan steps off the presidential jet from his South Africa trip today, he will have 370 days left in office. In July 2011 when I penned his Countdown Calendar for the... Read More

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Lai Mohammed: To Femi Aribisala and others – Jonathan deserves defeat not repeat

by Lai Mohammed Aribisala’s tragic thinking and poor excuse for sensibility is so self effacing when he also falls into the trap of attributing individual personal successes to the government, not the individuals. [READ: Jonathan will win the 2015 elections by a landslide] Femi Aribisala’s piece, referenced in the title of this rejoinder, is very interesting,... Read More

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#TheYNaijaInterview: My generation cannot change the country simply because we’re young – Chude Jideonwo

by Wilfred Okiche Chude Jideonwo is a writer, journalist, media entrepreneur and social advocate. His new book ‘Are We The Turning Point Generation?’ will be launched officially today at the Federal Palace hotel. He speaks with YNaija about his passion for the Nigerian youth, why this generation may or may not be the turning point... Read More

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Opinion: Will our real leaders please stand up?

by Hussaina Ishaya Audu It is no longer just about Jonathan anymore; I believe we are now on trial. Every adult Nigerian has a responsibility to decide whether we are going to allow the Chibok Calamity to go the way of June 12, or if after this, it is going to be business unusual. About... Read More

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Simon Kolawole: Why do we keep empowering foreigners at our own expense?

by Simon Kolawole Government officials are ready to go to any length to please foreign media perhaps because of the image they want to paint to the outside world or perhaps because they worship skin colour, or maybe both. No, I’m not making any excuses, but it seems we don’t know what we are doing... Read More

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Tunde Fagbenle: “Give me Oduduwa Republic or let me die”

by Tunde Fagbenle A few days ago, I received by email a long diatribe written by none other than the irrepressible enfant terrible Femi Fani-Kayode, chief and Cambridge-educated lawyer scion of the stormy petrel politician of Nigeria’s first republic, Chief Remi Fani-Kayode, aka Fani-Power. These are trying times indeed. Trying and sad times. It wouldn’t... Read More

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Jaye Gaskia: Nigeria’s ruling class at its wits’ end

by Jaye Gaskia This ruling class is incapable of tackling the existential crisis facing us, it is time for us to sack this ruling class, It is time for us to take our destiny into our own hands and Take Back Nigeria. A few days ago, at the peak of the abduction saga of... Read More

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Dele Momodu: The critical warning Pres. Jonathan must heed

by Dele Momodu The meat of my epistle today is to warn our leaders about how close we are to the abyss since we often live in denial and behave like we are in control of heaven and earth. Fellow Nigerians, let me confess that I’m a great fan of Thai restaurants and whenever I’m... Read More

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Biyi Bandele: Why can’t Nigerians see Half of a Yellow Sun?

by Biyi Bandele I am yet to meet a single Nigerian who has seen the film who came out of the cinema thinking that they had just seen a film that would incite anyone to violence. When I heard last month that the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board, headquartered in Abuja, had indicated that... Read More

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Opinion: That Tony Anenih advice on Boko Haram

by John Udumebraye Although cynics are within their rights to say whatever they wish about the Boko Haram insurgency, Anenih has clearly placed national interest above all else in advising that the country should unite in fighting the terrorist group. On Monday, May 19, 2014, newspapers and other news outlets across the country were awash with... Read More

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Opinion: Boko is Halal, not Haram

by Ikechukwu Mbachu Haram is when your governors collect hefty monthly allocation and fly off to Dubai for some frolicking and rollicking, while poverty ravages the people. When the Boko Haram menace started, I thought it will fizzle out just like the sharia brouhaha. I honestly thought they will either run out of funds or... Read More

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Wole Soyinka: And now, the ecumenical city of Jos?!

by Wole Soyinka Today, so soon after Nyanya, Jos has turned into yet another national abattoir, the current fate of so many of our towns, villages and other once thriving habitations across northern parts of the nation. This was how I knew Jos from childhood – the ecumenical heart of Nigerian humanity. It was this... Read More

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Gimba Kakanda: Femi Fani-Kayode – The hate preacher and his imaginary audience

by Gimba Kakanda Possessed by his characteristic bigotry, Mr Fani-Kayode, in disparaging the north and its intolerable terrorists does not admit that of the three Nigerian-born terrorists overseas, caught in the act, two are actually his kinsmen, fellow Yoruba who, like Shekau, have become throat-slitting Islamist terrorists. In all my playful attempts to pan the... Read More

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Bolaji Abdullahi: Thinking beyond Boko Haram

by Bolaji Abdullahi As a Muslim, I feel personally embarrassed by the kind of evil that Boko Haram has perpetrated in the name of my religion. The tragic snatching of the Chibok schoolgirls appears to be the tipping point in Nigeria’s battle with Boko Haram. What started as a river of national rage has... Read More

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Tunde Leye: Why Nigeria does not need a revolution

by Tunde Leye It is for this reason I think a revolution is not the way to go in Nigeria. The first coup of January 1966 was revolutionary in rhetoric. It is the worst mistake made in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria should have taught us the power of being the most organized group within a movement,... Read More

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