Chief Igbinedion sometimes wittingly or unwittingly gives the impression that he is competing with the Oba over a crown he can never wear. Since the crown is not purchasable one …
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Kenya and Nigeria have too many things in common. Instead of guaranteeing citizens’ basic right to vote freely, both governments and their electoral officials actively colluded in electoral fraud and violence…
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Kenya and Nigeria have too many things in common. Instead of guaranteeing citizens’ basic right to vote freely, both governments and their electoral officials actively colluded in electoral fraud and violence…
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Ever since Mr. Timipre Sylva became the governor, and Mr. Goodluck became the Vice President, both men have managed to find ways to cause themselves, and the people of Bayelsa, …
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It is said that if you close your eyes because you do not want to see evil, that good would also pass by unnoticed by you…
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Over the next few weeks, I will be revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984…
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In the Nigeria of today, much like in the 80’s and 90’s, the notoriety of ‘PHD’ a.k.a. Pull Him Down syndrome cannot be denied by anyone. Some people go to …
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It was always going to end in tears. I mean the eventual displacement of Mallam Ribadu from the EFCC. There was a certain sense of inevitability about his removal from …
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We thought that all hell was going to break loose again when the election tribunal in Anambra state upturned the purported ‘victory’ of one of Olusegun Obasanjo’s godsons, Andy Uba …
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The time has come for Nigerians to begin to express a good measure of pessimism concerning those who put themselves up for public office. And that is because the Nigerian …
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The recent proposed 5% user tax on petroleum products as a means of sourcing funds for sustained road maintenance activities in the country deserves second thought…
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The recent proposed 5% user tax on petroleum products as a means of sourcing funds for sustained road maintenance activities in the country deserves second thought…
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When we write on issues we feel should be considered to take Nigeria forward, what we get is negative feedback from people who purport to be more patriotic than us…
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In our Nigeria today, the corruption chain reaction now appears to have hijacked the total hierarchy of power. It is complete…
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Why are Nigerians losing their objectivity over this charlatan who has repeatedly demonstrated his unabated solidarity with their number one enemy, Olusegun Obasanjo?
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Are we so dangerously intelligent that we always manipulate the system in our favour to the detriment of the good, larger community and the rule of law?