Opinion

FORMER Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate in last election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, unraveled on Monday at a press conference in Abuja where he finally found his voice after more than 96 hours to respond to his trouncing at the Supreme Court in a landmark judgment on his …

CALM, Cerebral, articulate, amiable mien, these are qualities that typify former Director General of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier General Paul Boroh (rtd). A man of great conviction and strategic insight bearing a surname that echoes in the annals of Nigerian history. Also from Bayelsa state like Isaac Adaka Boroh, …

By Sanusi Muhammad TIME is flying at a lightning speed and the anointed governor of Bauchi State, Bala Muhammed us setting the pace in transforming the state to an Eldorado. He has occupied his time implementing robust policies tailored to the safety and development of the state not minding the …

THE creation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by the then President Olusegun Obasanjo was a laudable idea, going by the successes made by successive Chairmen, with the last two Chairmen, ending their tenures in abyss ignominy. The appointment of the current Chairman of the EFCC-Ola Olukoyede is a …

IN response to my September 30 column titled “Thought Subsidy Was Bad. Why is Tinubu Bringing it Back?” a Facebook follower of mine by the name of Anas Mundi asked, “So why is SLS [i.e., Sanusi Lamido Sanusi] always agitating for fuel subsidy removal? I still don’t get it really!!” …

FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Rowland Owie, has expressed deep concern over the proposed appointment of a non-career personnel as the Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) by President Bola Tinubu. Reacting to reports that the appointment of an ‘outsider’ as Commandant-General …

ON this day, 37 years ago, an icon of bold investigative journalism, Dele Giwa was killed via a parcel bomb in his home. Gatekeepers News reports that until his death, Dele Giwa was the editor-in-chief and chief executive of Newswatch. A parcel bomb delivered to his house during the military …

Prof. Cyrille Ngamen Kouassi Urges Federal Government To Halt Brain Drain In Nigerian Universities By Igbotako Nowinta VICE Chancellors in the ivory towers in Nigeria have been advised to stop playing politics with their jobs and concentrate on the well beings of students and lecturers. This view was made over …

GOVERNOR Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji of Ekiti State is privileged to have inherited a stable platform. Were it to have been otherwise, one doubts if he would by now have finished negotiating the trouble zones, not to talk about development in the state. Not just that, the governor also has a …

I sympathise with the current Acting Vice Chancellor of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Prof Sunnie Adagbonyin who is Governor Godwin Obaseki’s brother in-law, the Visitor to the University. My empathy stems from the durable fact that the Governor of the State is the only credible credential that qualified him for …