What if Femi Fani-Kayode, Mr Short Fuse, was Buhari? By Frederick Nwabufo

Femi Fani-Kayode makes conceit solemn. He is the sui generis of narcissism. His arrogance dovetails with his foul temper and cutting tongue. There is no shade of modesty, temperance and…

Case Against Blasphemy In Nigeria By Leo Igwe

Nigeria’s blasphemy laws have been of focus locally, nationally and internationally following the arrest and detention of Nigerian humanist, Mubarak Bala, the sentencing to death of a Muslim singer, and…

#Op_Ed :The Continued servitude in Kano and the need for a quick end to it

Ibe Pascal Chinedu Arogorn It is implausible to imagine on how some people in kano state Nigeria have been Chained for years in a locked place filled with darkness by…

Intersociety: How many Boko Haram fighters are left in Borno after Buratai ‘killed 1400’?

If truly “over 1400 Boko Haram terrorists including their commanders and arms suppliers have been killed in the past two months or since 11th April 2020”; with “about 1000 earlier killed…

Almajiri: What happened on the road to heaven?

By Matthew Hassan Kukah Yes, you are right, the title for his article draws inspiration from Phil Collins’ song titled, “What Happened On the Way To Heaven?” The almajiri and…

Five Years After: Is Buhari really on top of his brief?

By Muazu Jibril Muazu The declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the 2015 presidential polls in what was widely accepted as free, fair and credible election, is…

Now, its clearer; Nigeria hates its women!

By Chiamaka Okafor Nigeria still hates its women. That sounds ridiculous, I know. Sadly, it is as true as the fact that we were all conceived by the coming together…

Biafra: 50 years after and the crisis of Igbo leadership

By Osmund Agbo The year was 1970 and the day was January 15. On that date in history, Major-General Phillip Efiong, Biafra’s chief of general staff and interim head of…

‘Mysterious’ deaths in Kano, Ganduje and Nigeria’s leadership crisis

By ‘Tope Oriola His performance was so epic that he managed to win reelection in 2019. That meant that billions of naira were entrusted to him for another four years.…

Insult as treason and other Nigerian Idi Amin Dada Stories

By Festus Adedayo Two pieces of literary works – Williams Stevenson’s thriller, Ninety Minutes at Entebbe and the film, The Last King of Scotland (2006) – plot the graph of…

Favouring some while frustrating others will ruin this nation, Umar tells Buhari

Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd) was the military governor of Kaduna State under the General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (Rtd) military regime. Umar who is a public commentator on national issues…

Mr. President, what would the Buhari legacy be?

By Jibrin Ibrahim Today is the anniversary of President Buhari’s fifth year in power and he has three more years to go before retiring to Daura to take care of…

Durueke: A Major part of us is gone!

.Tribute to a fallen comrade By Okey Nwanguma The news of the death of Uche Wisdom Durueke on the afternoon of 14 May, 2020 hit me with a devastating suddeness…

10 years after: You were president like no other, Ibori hails Yar’Adua

Former governor of Delta state, Chief James Onanefe Ibori has praised the sterling qualities of Nigeria’s late former president, Alhaji Umar Musa Yar’Adua Ibori in remembrance of the 10th year…

How to pull Nigeria from the brink

.By Atiku Abubakar On Monday, April 27, 2020, British oil and gas giant, BP, became the latest in a growing number of energy firms to declare a massive quarterly loss.…