Columns
How to achieve democracy that engenders progress and peace, by Kayode Fayemi
It gives me a unique pleasure to be back here again at the NIPSS to give this lecture – this time around to the Executive Course 41, 2019.
Read moreNigeria, Xenophobia and Ramaphosa’s apology, by Reuben Abati
The hero in all of this melodrama, however, is Allen Onyema, the CEO of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, which provided aircraft to evacuate Nigerians, free of charge from South...
Read moreAllen Onyema: The Face Of Nigeria, by Comfort Obi
All I know is that he founded the Air Peace Airline, which now bestrides Nigeria’s skyline like a collosus, and quietly pushed out Arik Air which proudly occupied that position...
Read moreSerial lies about Amnesty programme, by Murphy Ganagana
It is a sad commentary that the Niger Delta people face the paradox of having an amazing wealth in crude oil but are buffeted by a whirlwind that has choked...
Read moreInstitutionalising APC for democratic leadership, by Salihu Moh. Lukman
Although the President’s message is very clear, it risks being taken for granted and in the process simply become noted and no one, especially the party leadership, represented by the...
Read moreRemembering Gani Fawehinmi: 10 years on, by Taju Tijani
Gani was the leader’s leader. He was the man who was quick to step out of line. The man who undertook bold, new things with bottomless energy, innovation, creativity, and...
Read moreDeath of civility and the rise of rage, by Azu Ishiekwene
Angry mobs have dominated recent images from the streets of South Africa and Nigeria – Africa’s two largest economies.
Read moreFederal University Oye-Ekiti Incident: My story, by Bisi Fayemi
I did not encounter any group of students when I got to Oye town. They had dispersed before my arrival, and when they regrouped I was inside the venue. It...
Read moreMohammed Adoke writes back…, by Reuben Abati
They include, in this particular regard, Reno Omokri, Facts vs. Fiction: The Story of the Jonathan Years, Chibok, 2015 and the Conspiracies (2017); Olusegun Adeniyi, Against the Run of Play:...
Read morePresent and future of education in South West: Role of Alumni Associations, by Bayo Onanuga
I thank you for inviting me to deliver this keynote speech at this event preparatory to the 70th anniversary of our alma mater, Ijebu Muslim College, famously known as MUSEDUCO...
Read moreIPOB: Enemy of democracy, by Gracelyn Eshet
The IPOB exists on the extremist edge of such political derangement, possessed by the “actualization” of the dead and buried corpse of Biafran “nationality”, as its crazy cause.
Read moreNigerian statesmen missing in action, by Atanasius Mgbor
Even without going into the semantics of definition, these five prominent elders and former leaders are regarded by generality of Nigerians as fathers of the nation by virtue of their...
Read moreAfro-phobia: Defying South Africa, Nigerian geniuses and scammers, by Taju Tijani
Tongues are clattering. Tails are wagging. Adrenalin rage is on the boiling point. A ground swell of rising tide of negative opinion is bitterly working against Nigerians from Andalusia to...
Read moreIn defence of CBN’s renewed financing vigour in education, health, by Mustapha Somalia
The CBN has, however, over the years, been directly or indirectly involved in the financing of growth-enhancing programmes and other projects of the Federal Government which are incidental to the...
Read moreXenophobic attacks: AGF must get justice for Nigerians, by Kayode Adult
This unexpected behaviour cannot be justified in the face of unprovoked attacks that Nigerians received lately in the hands of their South African counterparts. These attacks must be condemned in...
Read moreGov. Makinde’s 100 Days score-card, by Bolanle Bolawole
Virtually all governors are damn too busy to find the time to put pen to paper. The truth, however, is that only a few of them are qualified to write....
Read moreA warning for South Africans and their Foreign Minister, by Femi Fani-Kayode
Giving a country like South Africa to them (Black South Africans) is like giving a monkey a loaded gun. They will use it to kill everyone around them and eventually...
Read moreXenophobia: Why Nigeria must take action against South Africa, by Femi Gbajabiamila
Nigerians have long travelled far and wide in search of knowledge, of experience and prosperity. As we have travelled, we have opened also our borders to those who will seek...
Read moreSetting anti-corruption agenda for 9th National Assembly, by Kayode Oladele
Being a keynote address presented by Hon. Kayode Oladele, former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes in the 8th Assembly, aat an anti-corruption seminar in Abuja
Read moreGeneral Magashi and the National Security Agenda, by Yushau A. Shuaib
When Major General Bashir Magashi (retd) was announced as a ministerial nominee, I reached out to the former Commissioner for Information and Finance in Kano State, Mallam Garba Yusuf, for...
Read more
Copyright © 2019. All Rights Reserved.