Opinion

By Reno Omokri First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in Sunday ThisDay of January 26, 2020. Recently, the firebrand ex Second Republic member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, warned or threatened that…

Nd’Imo ndi nwem, I greet you all. It gives me great pleasure to address you today. A few days ago, precisely on Wednesday January 15, it pleased God Almighty for me to be sworn in as the duly elected governor of our dear state, following…

By Reno Omokri First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in Sunday ThisDay of January 19, 2020. A lot has been written about the introduction of the region wide security outfit for the Southwest, known as Àmọ̀tẹ́kùn. Much of it is…

Being a text of Press Conference by the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) Presented by the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, in Rejection of the Judgement of the Supreme Court On Imo Governorship Election.…

By Bunmi Makinwa One is lean, slow, deliberate and often distant as he stares into space. The other is compact, quick, agitated and often preoccupied with his mobile phones. I am describing, respectively, my impressions of President…

 By Jibrin Ibrahim This week, I was in Niamey, Niger Republic for a scholarly conference on the state of knowledge on security and development challenges confronting the Sahel and the way forward. It was organised by the…

By ‘Tope Fasua I was glad the other day when the federal government announced a ban – yes an outright ban – on the very frightening and future-usurping practice called the Almajirai system. I had written on this page, more than…

By Dele Agekameh The European Union Election Observation Mission, EU EOM, has just released its final report on Nigeria’s 2019 elections. The report has sparked a new wave of criticism against the 2019 elections conducted earlier in the…

By Festus Adedayo If four ills gained notorious mentions in the four years or so that President Muhammadu Buhari has been in power, the Fulani menace should be atop the ills. Fulani menace has other irritable offshoots embedded into it,…

By Zainab Suleiman Okino  As another cycle of a four-year transition, which began on May 29, takes shape, it is time to take stock of the actors that will shape the polity in the next four years. Among them are immediate past ministers…

By Jerome-Mario Utomi. Talking about the public institution, Mahatma Gandhi in his autobiography titled; The Story of My Experiment with Truth, among other things stated that a public institution is an institution conducted with the…

By Reuben Abati Senator Ahmed Lawan is the incumbent Senate President of Nigeria, having won the election into that office, 79-28, beating his rival, Senator Ali Ndume of the same ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Lawan was the…

By Oge Onyeanusi As a back drop of the directive from Anambra State Government suspending ticketing and collection of tolls, dues or levies in the state till further notice, residents and visitors of the commercial city of Onitsha have…

By Onyinye Okonkwo Nigeria, as a country that can be described as largely patriarchal, is still very much behind when  it comes to equality between  men and women. This disparity can be clearly seen in the political class in our country…

By Louis Odion With Monday’s purported im­peachment of Eze Madumere as Imo State’s deputy governor, the conversion of the acclaimed “Heartland” of the South-East to Rochas Okorocha’s comic show now appears com­plete. But the trouble is…