Again, the triumph of selfish politics, Dan Agbese
The discerning knew it would come to these: that the electoral act bill sent to President Buhari for his assent on which he sat for […]
Column/Opinion
Keren and Sylvester: So similar, yet so different, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
As bad as abuse of minors is, the Nigerian factor which makes it almost impossible to bring offenders to account, leaves families of victims distraught […]
Rule of Law, Nigeria’s only hope of survival (2), by Hassan Gimba
This is the second part of our treatise on the rule of law that started last week. The rule of law is about the creation […]
The World Bank’s bad news about our economy, Dan Agbese
The bad news is that our national economy remains stubbornly defiant. Past and present efforts to solve its inherent historical problems and cure it of […]
The #ENDSARS panel report, by Dan Agbese
I bet I was not the only one who feared that the work of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry on Restitution for Victims […]
Ndigbo and politics of identity, by Hassan Gimba
Even though Anambra has been in the kitty of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) for a long time, the recently concluded gubernatorial election in […]
What N6bn can do for my state, by Hassan Gimba
Yobe is a small agrarian state on the path to becoming great. All those who governed it ensured this. All the past governors, one way […]
Of Wachakal Airport, wastage and the bandits in government, by Hassan Gimba
When the news hit the airwaves that the federal government had budgeted N6.3 billion to build an airport at Wachakal, in Yobe State, 130 kilometres […]
The press matters: Tribute to the Nobel Peace Laurates, by Dan Agbese
The Norwegian Nobel Committee did something almost unthinkable on October 8 when it awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists: Maria Ressa and […]
The North East: Which Way Forward?, by Hassan Gimba
The North East came into existence on the 5th of May, 1967 when, in his bid to check the influence of Odumegwu Ojukwu in the […]
The hollow rituals of democracy, by Dan Agbese
Sometime in 1996, my good friend, the late Abidina Coomassie, published a book, Political Opportunism, in which he primarily excoriated the political enemies of the late […]
Our policemen baby-sitting our big men, Dan Agbese
The lives of important people matter. Here is some evidence. There are 400,000 personnel in the Nigeria Police Force. For a population of 170 million […]
Nigeria @ 61 and the bane of identity politics, by Majeed Dahiru
On October 1st 2021, Nigeria marked its 61st independent anniversary as a notoriously corrupt country that is the most terrorized poverty capital of the world. […]
Pardon my foolish question, by Dan Agbese
These are confused and confusing times for our nation. Nothing seems to add up. Our political leaders are torn between what would swell their swollen […]
Of bigmen’s children, Boko Haram and an unholy war, by Hassan Gimba
From the beginning, the quasi-Islamic jihadist movement with the high-sounding name, Jama’atu ahlus sunnah lidda’awati wal jihad, loosely translated to mean “People committed to the […]