Category: OPINION

By Bolanle Bolawole The news media were awash last week that the North’s governors and traditional rulers have come around to support state police after a meeting they held in Abuja; the reason for their about turn was given as the worsening security situation in the North. These are the same leaders that have often risen in stout defence of the administration of Muhammadu Buhari, threatening critics with mayhem and insisting, against the grains of evidence and acting like the ostrich, that the North is more secured under their own…

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By Bola Ahmed Tinubu “I don’t have business with the media as regards to Live television interview, I am contesting for Nigerian President, not Media President” “Asking me while I have not granted any Live television interview since my emergence as our Party flag bearer, to me is never an issue of discourse especially now that our nation is yearning for a good leader that will take over from Mr President and continue his good legacy. “Nigeria is in need of a pragmatic leader with pragmatic knowledge and understanding of…

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By Tunde Olusunle The media handlers of Yahaya Bello, the overtly exuberant governor of Kogi State, have been in overdrive in the last few days. They’ve been issuing rebuttal after rejoinder after release, all in a spirited attempt to absolve their principal of a most calamitous faux pax he recently committed. He just might have unwittingly illuminated pre-existing fogs in general thought and cleared cobwebs in the public eye. Bello’s wrong-headed gaffe most probably, would ordinarily have been dismissed as a tolerable incidence of logorrhoea, that verbal affliction, which makes…

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Peter Obi (left) is being attacked by supporters of Bola Tinubu (right) rather than engage Nigerians constructively as Peter Obi supporters aka OBI-dients are doing By Steve Osuji They are not exactly pen for hire; they are consort journalists. Well kept and used by their master for his purposes. They have no qualms, they have little compunction, they are well fed they feed the public with lies and fallacies, keeping a straight, evil, face. Here’s a list: Sam Omatseye, Segun Ayobolu, Dele Momodu, Dele Alake, Bayo Onanuga, and now, the…

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Hagia Sophia in Turkey was converted to a Mosque I have just returned from a trip to Turkey, where I was on a pilgrimage to some of the seven churches of Asia, also known as the seven churches of Revelations. I visited Smyrna (now known as Izmir), Pergamum (now known as Bergama, and Ephesus (now known as Efes). Prior to this visit, I had visited Laodicea (now known as Laodikeia). There are no remnants of some of the other churches, but I did get to see Cappadocia. And then I…

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Before he died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled ‘This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime.’ Going through this book left me with several thoughts, most of them unpleasant. It is a fascinating read covering, not just organised crime, but the evolution of the Nigerian state (or maybe they are the same thing?). At any rate, I want to share eight random things I found interesting in the book, and I will leave you to draw your own conclusions. 1. In 1947,…

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By Raheem Akingbolu Our friend and former colleague, the Obaleo of Erinmope, Oba Sunday Aikuirawo Aniyi PhD, will play host to people across the world today (August 27, 2022) in commemoration of his first year on the throne. The peak of today’s event will be the installation of Erelu Bisi Fayemi as Yeyeoba of Erinmope Ekiti.  I met Oba Aniyi few years ago at the Opebi office of Marketing Edge. In his usual manner, our mentor, the Publisher of the leading Marketing Communications journal, Ajayi Olulope John FNIMN, had hinted…

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In this most seminal treatise, one of Nigeria’s topmost economic scientists and analysts, Mr. Olabode Agusto, founder of Nigeria’s first independent globally recognised rating agency, Agusto & Co gives a rather detailed and practical insight into proper identification of national challenges, priorities as well as solutions that can be adopted to arrest this overwhelming national slide on all fronts… His paper: Nigeria – How to Win follows: Please let us start by debunking certain myths in our country. First, “Nigeria is an oil rich country.” False, because oil revenue per…

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By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu There is talk here and there of bringing back History with a capital “H” in the Nigerian school curriculum. It is cool by me to do a short history course with the ruling party, APC, and President Muhammadu Buhari. Necessary lessons need to be learnt before the elections that will lead into the next dispensation of Nigeria’s much touted democracy. To start back in time, Nigeria’s first coup as arranged by Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna, Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, Adewale Ademoyega etc. did raise the issue of corruption…

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