Opinion

Osun poly: The sense and nonsense of Governor Adeleke’s action

The saying that one cannot crown a clown and expect the clown to behave like a king appears apt in…

1 year ago

THE FIGHT BETWEEN DSS AND PRISON OFFICERS OVER EMEFIELE: SOMETHING YOU DIDN’T KNOW

One of the good things out of spending time in Nigerian prison was that I learnt some secrets about how…

1 year ago

CHUKWUEMEKA EZE AND THE BURDEN OF A HIRELING

He was said to have been found among the stranger elements and pseudo Almajiris that milled around Alhaji Abubakar Atiku’s…

1 year ago

Gambari and the delicate dance of Ilorin

We need to thank His Highness, Alhaji Sulu Gambari, Emir of Ilorin, for his fatherly intervention in the recent controversy…

1 year ago

Targeted by lies, defended by truth: Jackson Ude’s shameful assault on Jack-Rich’s reputation

As I found myself immersed in my customary practice of scrolling through Twitter, I unexpectedly came across a tweet that…

1 year ago

WANTED: A PARADIGM SHIFT IN APPOINTMENT OF EFCC CHAIRMAN

The emergence of our nascent democracy 24 years ago necessitated the establishment of an ombudsman body that will checkmate the…

2 years ago

Deji Adeyanju: An ‘activist’ stuck in the past

There appears to be an undeclared war being waged against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and its Group

2 years ago

We need to expand the meaning of leadership

Kofo Obasanjo-Blackshire tries to appeal to a global audience in her seminal book, Pillars of Statecraft, which would be presented…

2 years ago

GOV. FUBARA AND THE FIRST STEP OF A GOOD DANCER

A couple of days ago, Sir Siminalaye Joseph Fubara was constitutionally sworn in as the sixth democratically elected governor of…

2 years ago

Bola Tinubu, Power of ‘aforiti’, Endurance

His bonhomie was unusually absent that night in 2009. He spoke little, his luminous eyes mostly staring at us intensely…

2 years ago