Category: OPINION

By Olusegun Adeniyi An interesting piece by Olusegun Adeniyi on Akpabio’s double standards and how politicians think Nigerians suffer from collective amnesia. Enjoy: Godswill Akpabio (then Akwa Ibom State Governor) once stated that only the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan could guarantee peace in Nigeria. At an​ interdenominational ​church service beamed live on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) network on 2 January 2015, he declared: “As a PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) chieftain, I have found the solution to the peace we are seeking in Nigeria. That solution is the election…

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By Callistus Ebue Today 25th February 2024, marked exactly one year immemorial of the 25th February, 2023 Presidential Election in Nigeria. Through the benefits of hindsight, and sequel to a retrospective analysis of the events prior to, during and aftermath of the fiasco called election, and also given the dire situation the country is facing now in all facets of her existential struggle for survival; it behoves every sane and right-thinking Nigerian, irrespective of his/ her primordial sentiments and predisposition to put on a sack cloth and weep for Nigeria.…

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By Festus Adedayo (PhD) So, at plenary in the senate last week, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, rushed naked out of the bathtub. He raised his hand up. In the presidency’s search for scapegoat, Akpabio suddenly became Archimedes. Last week, he came forward to shout “Eureka!” He had found the No. 1 Nigerian enemy! Ancient Greek scholar, Archimedes, was the author of a find similar to but of sterner stuff than Akpabio’s. Archimedes had proclaimed “Eureka! Eureka!” immediately he stepped into a bath and discovered that the water level immediately rose.…

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By Law Mefor A few days ago, Ndigbo came under fire from Professor Usman Yusuf, the former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), for their perceived lack of interest in the ongoing nationally spreading hunger protests and strikes. He said: “I honestly don’t know why the Southeast is quiet, uncharacteristically quiet. But the President needs to find out.” Normally, one would disregard and deny additional visibility to a professor whose only contribution to national progress is Fulani supremacism for such an insulting and inflammatory tirade. However, it…

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Dr Josef Onoh (left) with President Bola Tinubu Few days ago, the former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf was a guest at the famous Arise Morning Show, and during the course of the interview regarding the extreme hardship in the country since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office after winning the controversial election also contested by Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar. Usman had wondered why the Southeast have remained quiet when the rest of other regions across the country have been engaging in…

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By Chukwudi Iwuchukwu The wife of the pastor of the RCCG church where the late Herbert Wigwe worshipped before his death, Dr. Siju Iluyomade, celebrated her 60th birthday yesterday, and she threw a colourful party, more or less a carnival, to celebrate this milestone. The party had in attendance Lagos big boys and girls like Tony Elumelu as Flavour entertained guests. Before his death, Wigwe was a faithful member of the church where Siju’s husband pastored. The name of the RCCG parish is City of David, Victoria Island, Lagos. Any…

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By Kazie Uko  Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex C. Otti, OFR, turned 59 Sunday, February 18, 2024. This might come to many as a surprise considering that the name, Alex Otti, has been ringing a bell for a long time, more persistently and loudly in the last 10 years, the period within which he threw his hat into the ring of politics to contest for the governorship of Abia State. Before becoming a ‘politician’, Governor Otti had made his mark in the private sector as a highly sought after banker,…

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Being excerpt of address delivered Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA) through Col Abimbola Sowunmi (Rtd) to retired Yoruba junior officers recently in Kogi State We need to educate Yoruba people, constantly, on how the Fulani has made war inevitable in Nigeria. Believe it or not. It will come. The best way to defend peace is to prepare for war. Here were the steps taken in the last eight years of former President Muhammadu Buhari by Fulani to set Nigeria on the part of war apart from the British plot to retain…

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By Ikeddy Isiguzo President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is hungry like most of us who complain about hardship in the land. He is hungry for more power. He is hungry for acceptance among Nigeria. His hunger for recognition as a performing President gives him sleepless nights. Let us not speculate that he is hungry to recover his election expenses. What are the billions that went into the election compared to the gains? No, his hunger lies elsewhere. And time is of essence. Tinubu is hungry to impress you enough for him…

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By Temitope Ajayi There is a viral video where human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, made allusion to the sum of N135billion given to the 36 states in December 2023 at a memorial event in honour of Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti. It is important to state here that Mr. Falana has a strong reputation for exaggerations and embellishments. What the Lagos lawyer rendered in that trending video was total misrepresentation of facts. He also did not tell his audience the real reason the said amount was released to the States under…

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