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PDP’s shameful disservice to Nigeria, by Olu Fasan

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is comatose on a deathbed; it’s on life support. The doctors (INEC and the judiciary) are colluding to switch off the life-support machine. They believe the party needs euthanasia or assisted suicide. Yet, what’s really needed is to remove the external factors that interacted with PDP’s genetic predisposition to cause its […]

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Politics and its disguises, by Rotimi Fasan

Nigerians spent last weekend celebrating Eid el Fitri. As is to be expected in these times of heightened political activities, ahead of the party primaries and the emergence of candidates for various positions in next year’s general election, Nigerian politicians, it is emerging, used the period to strategise for the battles ahead. Religious festivals, conferment of […]

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Telecoms: Obasanjo will never see lack, by Okoh Aihe

It was not a moment of reminiscences or retrospection. Not even a recall. Just a normal telephone call. Two women were chatting away, with the one sitting not far away from me not really mindful whether anybody heard or not. It was her business; not another man’s business.  But you know, people can really make calls, […]

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Beyond reaction: Rethinking security in Nigeria, by Dakuku Peterside

On the evening of March 16, 2026, Maiduguri was once again forced to confront a familiar horror. Coordinated suicide bombings struck the Monday Market axis, the post office corridor, the entrance to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, and the Kaleri area, killing and injuring ordinary people who had simply been trying to end the day […]

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Trump: Winning the war, losing the world, by Dele Sobowale

“Men make history, but, not just as they please” – Karl Marx, 1818-1883. “Brute force without wisdom falls by its own weight” – Horace, 65-8 BC, VBQ p 63 Trump, Hitler and all terrorists, dead and alive, operate on one principle. “Let them hate, as long as they fear.” They want other people to tremble at […]

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Wanted in Nigeria: Open justice system, by Tonnie Iredia

The Southwest of Nigeria leads in several aspects of life in the country today because its pioneering leader, Obafemi Awolowo had before independence in 1960, created for his people, a reformative self-awareness governance system. As premier of the then Western Region, Awolowo introduced free education for all in addition to a combined radio and television […]

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Ozoro, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

A long time ago, there was an annual festival in a community in Ekiti. Its purpose was to highlight anti-social behaviour and to serve as some form of accountability mechanism. The young people would dance around the community and visit homes of ‘offenders’, those who had stolen farm produce, cheated their labourers, slept with the […]

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Fruitfulness is God’s command, by Funmi Komolade

Beloved, last Sunday was Mother’s Day.  Indeed mother’s day is marked more than once a year. We are still going to have another one by some Christians. One of the reasons God created man and woman is to bear children among other things. God commanded in Genesis 1 vs. 27 & 28(KJV): So God created man […]

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‘Bomb shell from hell’, by Patrick Omorodion

There is a song ‘between the devil and the deep blue see’ done in the early 1930s. It was commonly recorded by artists such as Cab Calloway and Frank Sinatra. The lyrics have a chorus that goes thus: I don’t want you but I hate to lose you, you have put me in between the […]

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