Category: OPINION

By Poem Nobody goes in defense against a team led by Dr. Livy Uzoukwu, SAN in any court and hope to have an easy ride, whatever the strength or otherwise of the evidence and witnesses you line up. When it comes in the nature of a presidential election case with holes all over, it becomes more than Herculean. Let us assume that Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a saint without personal encumbrances like his drug-related forfeiture business. Let us assume he Kashim Shettima plies on same route and submitted his…

By Kola Odetola NO woman likes a clingy, insecure man. But that is what we Yorubas are becoming, a frightened, insecure, and second-rate nation. So fearful that we can’t even accept one of our own because his mother is Igbo. There was a time when the word swagger was synonymous with the Yoruba. Reflecting self assurance and confidence. We exuded belief. The Igbos secretly admired us. They adopted our clothes and music. They flocked to our churches. We accommodated strangers because we were so sure of ourselves, of our standing…

By Margaret Adeyileka I traveled on board Turkish airlines flight number TK 0626 from Lagos to Istanbul on the 4th of April 2023 en-route to London Heathrow where I spent six days in Istanbul before proceeding to London. The check-in formalities and boarding at Lagos Airport was normal but on arrival in Istanbul I discovered the handlers have damaged my scooter (wheelchair), which is my only means of mobility. I complained to the people in charge at the airport and they did nothing. As a matter of fact, it was…

By Eric Teniola Of all appointments to be made by the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, none will define his presidency, other than the appointment of Minister of Petroleum. There are Ministers and there are Ministers but the Minister of Petroleum in this country is in a class of his own. He or she holds the key to the nation’s treasury. We shall know by the appointment the direction of his government. Petroleum subsidy to be not to be, our refineries, will have great impact on our future and these…

By Dr Dele Omojuyigbe He was Peter Enahoro, arguably the most influential newspaper columnist in Africa. He had three personalities lodged in one body in his newspaper journey in Daily Times – Peter Enahoro, Peter Pan, and George Sharp. He wrote separately under the three names in the Sunday Times in the late fifties, with each representing an ideology. Incidentally, Peter Pan, the flowery satirist, dominated. Peter Enahoro joined Daily Times in 1955 after his secondary education. He was 20 years old. Sunday Times Editor, Abiodun Aloba, better known with…

By Comrade Kindness Jonah Many politicians have tended to deciphering the real problem of Nigeria. Some have clamoured for solid support base to solve it. Others have proffered verbal solution. Yet, others have written treatises to decode that problem. The prevaricating slogan has been One Nigeria since the boomerang of 1966. Yet, like the elusive cat with nine lives, true peace has eluded Nigeria. What then is that problem of Nigeria? Parallel lines in cultural permutation met in 1914 to panel beat elephants and buffaloes to no small dissuasion. The…

By Charlie Chikezie This is Charlie Chikezie’s reaction to Vice President Yomi Osinbajo’s YouTube video where Nigeria’s Vice President, and Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN, recounted his ordeal with an ethnic-profiling Lagos landlord who jolted then then young and unmaried Osinbajo telling him that he would not rent his house to Igbo, Ijebu and Lawyers… the video can be watched on YouTube Between November 20, 1945, and October 1, 1946, following the defeat of Nazi Germany, the International Military Tribunal (IMT) tried 24 of the most important political and military…

Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (L) and Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (R) both lead powerful forces By Chidi Amuta In a tragic sense, Sudan is somehow lucky. Its leading political figures, who also happen to be combatant generals, have not hidden their differences beneath a façade of mutual deceit. They have instead allowed their differences to blossom into an open bloody confrontation. The two top generals who also happen to be the top political citizens of a nation with many hidden wounds have spared no effort in coming into the open…