The Buhari administration, a failure
In all my adult life, I have never seen a government that is this confused, incompetent, spineless, uncreative, rudderless, tactless, clueless and demoralising like this […]
Column/Opinion
Abandoned promises (1), Dan Agbese
This is the twilight zone of the Buhari administration. And this is the time for the president to engage in mopping up operations to see […]
IWD 2022: Letter for SML, by Amina Salihu
Dear Friends, In 2017, I challenged myself and other sisters to do two things on every International Women’s Day (IWD): celebrate a sister whose strength has borne […]
APC, Beware of the Ides of March, by Hassan Gimba
“When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm.” – Ancient proverb. “The Ides of March”, made popular by William […]
State first ladies and the heritage of monarchical democracy, by Abdullahi Musa
This article, were it to see the light of the day, would displease many. Why would that be so? Because it might be seen as […]
Searching for Godot, by Dan Agbese
The Irish novelist and playwright, Samuel Beckett, published his now famous play Waiting for Godot, to an initial indifferent review in the early forties. It is […]
President Buhari: How not to end badly, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
History is replete with leaders who came to power in a blaze of glory and ended in ignominy. As good as it is to start […]
A peep into Buhari’s legacy, by Dan Agbese
The next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will be a very lucky man. He will not have to scratch his head over any […]
Voices of history (1), by Dan Agbese
I have argued a zillion times in this column that the absence of an ideology in our political parties continues to cast a blind spell […]
Yahoo plus: The ubiquitous new social disorder, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
A tragedy of monumental proportion, with far reaching domino effects, has hit us as a people. To be sure, 419, internet fraud, cybercrime, advance free […]
The PDP mission to Abeokuta, by Dan Agbese
The report I read of the visit by PDP leaders led by their new national chairman, the savvy, quiet and effective political operator, Dr Iyorchia […]
Elections and pulpit managers, by Bello Shehu Shuni
As the 2023 general election looms, the pulpit managers have been urged to organize themselves when they stand on their podium to preach orderliness and […]
The North-East: Which way forward?, by Hassan Gimba
Being a speech delivered by Hassan Gimba, publisher of Neptune Prime online newspaper and magazine, chairman Northeast Publishers’ Forum, as the Guest Speaker at the 6th Annual […]
The Babangida leadership prescription, by Dan Agbese
President Ibrahim Babangida’s criteria for the Nigerian leader he would like to emerge post President Muhammadu Buhari should stimulate national debate on the leadership question. […]
The rise of Obi Cubana from grace to grace, by Majeed Dahiru
Through a mutual friend, I met Obi Cubana for the first and last time at his Ibiza restaurant sometime in 2008; a year before the […]