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SIMON KOLAWOLE Anybody who knows me well will be aware of my cynicism about Nigerian politics and politicians. For the life of me, I do not believe most of our

By Okey Ikechukwu For the record, the incidents of mass killings, attacks on military installations and kidnapping stand at its peak today. It is everywhere. No one is safe anymore.

Obinna Chima Established in August 1998, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), once celebrated as the anchor of Nigeria’s democratic rebirth and a broad coalition of national interests has been enmeshed

Dialogue With Nigeria BY AKIN OSUNTOKUN “The Federal Military Government hereby decrees as follows: Subject to the provisions of this Decree, Nigeria shall on 24th May 1966 (in this decree referred

Beneath the Surface   By Dakuku Peterside Nigeria’s 2027 election has already begun, INEC has released the official timetable but the more consequential truth is that the country has entered the season

EXPRESSO BY STEVE OSUJI The Tick On The Scrotum: It’s a situation that begs for denouement, not prosecution or persecution at that. Nasir El-Rufai is a tick on President Bola

Olusegun Adeniyi The title of this column is adapted from the controversial memoir of Sir Bryan Sharwood Smith (1899 to 1983), easily one of the most consequential British colonial officers in

Is the All Progressives Congress (APC) the new MTN? Everywhere you go, it is APC. This would have been funny if not that we are discussing the state of party

Waziri Adio Nigeria is not new to economic reforms. Since 1984, the country has gone through at least four episodes of consequential economic reforms. The Muhammadu Buhari/Tunde Idiagbon regime opted

By Okey Ikechukwu We see them as wars, weather catastrophes, Climate Change and much more. We mostly do not consider them as symptoms of anything other than human political quarrels