Opinion

By Kassim Afegbua I featured on an Arise TV Program, last month, where I “advertised” myself as a gubernatorial aspirant in search of a godfather that will help me achieve my gubernatorial aspiration in Edo state, and make me the democratically elected governor of the state come 2024. My interviewer …

ACUTELY, Nigerians can only commend efforts that are not traded subconsciously. In the regards, presentation of budget with few reasonable heaves is not enough to justify strategic scores as all literate can put something down. What matters is keying into making it manifested. Most of Nigeria elites have grown above …

SOME gubernatorial aspirants are already embattled by mere provocatory tickles. One received what he called an insult when he went to talk to his Ewohinmi people. I saw him talking tough and describing their idle chit-chat as the burdensome musings of peppersoup and beer parlour joint. He spoke with bulging …

By Sanusi Muhammad WHEN we shout to high heavens of how corruption is steadily wrecking havoc to our national development, when we talk of corrupt practices bedeviling the civil service, when we trumpet a bloody revolution to clear the already heaped mess and suggest death sentence for corrupt practice, town …

By Festus Adedayo LAST week, in the ancient city of Ibadan, Oyo State, two bedfellows, journalism and history, became objects of attraction. The duo have always existed in Siamese matrimony. As a way of emphasizing this liaison, some scholars have defined journalism as history in a hurry. So, this day, …

By Sanusi Muhammad IN his opinion on the operational model of democracy in Nigeria and how to defeat the cancer of rigging elections, electoral corruption and judicial banditry against electoral victory for true democracy to thrive. According to a renowned British political scientist James Dickson: “In developing or raw and …

EDUCATION is an inalienable right of every child as enshrined in the United Nations Charter which further stated that it is the best single investment for prosperity and an equitable society. The immense benefits include but are not limited to empowerment, doors for employment opportunities, and higher income. This provision …

ORDINARILY, I wouldn’t write on the subject matter, because it is legal, and comes with a lot of technicalities. But such technicalities are regular visitors in the career of my calling-journalism. Blunder, error and lapse are old hat in the newsroom, as such, nothing to get excited about, because they …

MR Buhari has been an unmitigated disaster in public service. From the N2.8billion missing oil money of the 70s down to the eight year misrule which created a template for the most ineffective , nepotistic and ethno driven type rule IN Africa. Buhari has elevated ignorance in governance to a …

MEN believe that it is their duty to preserve the bloodline. No one wants to be the father of another man’s children. This is an instinct acquired over millions of years through evolution from the Stone Age to the Internet Age. However, despite man’s struggle and insistence, only a woman …