REVEALED: Why we shut Abuja airport – Oduah

Hakeem Baba-Ahmad: ASUU strike – Mr. President, please look closely, you have no last card to play

by Hakeem Baba-Ahmad There is evidence around that President Goodluck Jonathan is toughing up his mien. He is not heeding the caution that you stop digging when you are in a deep hole. This can be explained by a number of possible reasons. One is poor appreciation of the circumstances in which he takes decisions.... Read More

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Okey Ikechukwu: Why not share resources in Nigeria according to ‘ekiti mass’?

by Okey Ikechukwu If the United Nations (UN) wants the state with the highest number of carrying ‘ekiti’ prefixed towns to have 30% of all global support for a sustained fight against poverty, it will go to Ekiti State. Ado Ekiti is the capital of Ekiti State, the South Western Nigeria, and other towns in... Read More

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Funke Aboyade: ASUU strike – We are heading straight for an educational abyss

by Funke Aboyade, SAN The greater irony is that all this is happening under the watch of a president who is himself an academic. 30 years ago, along with 745 others, I was called to the Nigerian Bar. It seems just like yesterday, Tempus Fugit, how time flies! With the Nigerian Law School celebrating its... Read More

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Collins Uma: #AnambraElections – APC was taught a lesson on strongholds

by Collins Uma One of the most obvious lessons we learnt from the recent governorship election in Anambra is that the guys who make up the All Progressives Congress (APC) are bad losers. This is not news, though. The legacy parties that make up the APC, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria... Read More

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Femi Aribisala: How armed robbers shot and killed me by the roadside

by Femi Aribisala I was already dead, so I was not moved. For a moment, we stood staring at one another defiantly, with him pointing the gun directly at my face. I was born on 12th April, 1952. I died twenty-years ago on 26th December, 1993. I was killed by armed-robbers on the way from... Read More

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Opinion: The ASUU strike is bad but Wike’s threat of mass sack is worse

by Wale Sokunbi These steps taken by Wike at the tail end of the efforts to end the strike, and at a time when the end of the industrial action was already in sight, questions the administrative sagacity of the minister and the Federal Government. The lingering problem of the university teachers’ strike, which entered... Read More

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Opinion: Why we are still on strike – ASUU President, Nasir Fagge

by Nasir Fagge Second, the on-going crisis was exacerbated when one side to the dispute – Government, represented by the Secretary to the Federal Government announced to the public and ASUU that the 2012 Memorandum of Understanding (a document authorised by himself) was not binding on Government since it was signed by a Permanent Secretary... Read More

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December 3, 2013

Ayokunle Odekunle: ASUU, stop disgracing yourselves and get back to work

by Ayokunle Odekunle The idle hand is the devil’s workshop. I can authoritatively tell you that Esu (devil) has engaged the students sufficiently. While many of the male students have ventured into crime, some now ‘set-p’ incessantly on twitter (Dont ask me what setting p means). Last week Friday after downing two bottles of that... Read More

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Opinion: A moving message from an AIDS victim

by Hannatu Musawa But no matter how much I try to convince myself that I contracted HIV through a syringe, blood transfusion or blade, I know that I am lying to myself. If I really and truly want to be honest with myself, I know that; no haircut, injection or transfusion was responsible. I know... Read More

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Voting opens for the Y! ‘Most Influential People, Ideas & Movements’; #Y100 Gala to hold in 2014

by Akan Ido Y!/YNaija.com, the leading network of media brands for an evolving generation of Africans, has announced the inaugural edition of the Y!/YNaija.com Most Influential People, Ideas & Movements – the #Y100. “It was inevitable, Y! has spent the past three years driving and leading the conversation amongst young Africans on the things... Read More

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Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: How not to sell our refineries

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu My take on all this is that it’s high time we do away with the needless emotions and get rid of the four moribund plants on the federal government’s balance sheet. As mentioned earlier, the four plants for almost two decades have not functioned at optimal capacity due to inefficiency, corruption... Read More

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A rejoinder: How Gov. Fashola’s successor will emerge

by Adewole Joseph In between making specious claims and engaging in childish pranks, Mr. Thomas also takes time off to pronounce some categorical falsehoods and proclaim bizarre logic. Hear him: “The plan of APC to become a major rallying point for all progressives nationwide can only be realized if Lagos regains the high political tempo... Read More

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Femi Fani-Kayode: Ojukwu betrayed Awolowo and the Yorubas, not the other way around

by Femi Fani-Kayode The greatest irony of all is that, generally speaking, the Igbo detest Awolowo so much and have done everything that is physically possible to malign and discredit him since 1967. Yet this was the man whose party went into an alliance with them at the most critical point in our history (between 1964 and 1966) and who wanted the Yoruba to work closely with them. In an interview with the Punch newspaper on 30th November 2013, Dr.... Read More

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Ekerete Udoh: The G-5 governors’ merger with the APC – Matters arising

by Ekerete Udoh Let’s look at Rivers state- will the people of Rivers, jettison their next door son, and embrace a northern candidate simply because their Governor-Amaechi defected to the opposition party? Even though one is not cheer-leading for identity politics, I declare here that the people of Rivers will not abandon Jonathan in 2015,... Read More

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Simon Kolawole: We have every reason to cheer about the APC merger

by Simon Kolawole You don’t move from being a “bad” governor to a “good” governor simply because you defected from one party to the other yesterday. You don’t suddenly become Nigeria’s saviour because you left PDP for APC after a disagreement over the national cake. Maybe I am seeing things that many observers cannot see... Read More

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Orji Uzor Kalu: What the Eagles need for success in Brazil

by Orji Uzor Kalu Is it not preposterous, therefore, for critics to call for the hiring of a foreign technical adviser less than one year to Brazil 2014? How can any rational person do such a thing? Must we play politics with every matter under the sun? Keshi’s performance as coach is no longer a... Read More

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Opinion: No, governor Oshiomhole, your apology is NOT accepted

by Ehis Robert Seeking relief, the woman informed the Governor that she was a widow and asked him to forgive her, and then the Governor’s callous words: ”If you are widow, go and die.” The Esans of Edo State have a saying: “You can never gather at the same market twice.” The import of the above is that... Read More

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Tunde Fagbenle: Anyone above age 30 doesn’t qualify to be called a youth

by Tunde Fagbenle Any unit, from the family to the village to the ethnic to the nation and to the race, has an obligation to devote all its energies and resources to the nurturing of its youths if the continued existence of such unit or society were to be assured. What sticks in my mind... Read More

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Opinion: Was Jonathan’s Israel trip a ‘holy trip’ or a state visit?

by Adeolu Ademoyo President Jonathan traveled to Israel recently. But we did not know whether it was a “holy trip” or state visit or a combination of the two. Mr. President took along on the Israel trip Mr. Oritsejafor the controversial president of Christian Association of Nigeria whose moral and faith credentials are questionable. “…I... Read More

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Tonnie Iredia: Is corruption in Nigeria just a mere perception? I think not!

by Tonnie Iredia The second point is the argument that corruption in Nigeria is over exaggerated by some unpatriotic citizens; prominent among them are Nigerian journalists – a group to which this writer belongs There appears to be some measure of unanimity among analysts both within and outside Nigeria that the nation is a highly... Read More

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