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Chidi Onumah: What does the North really want?
by Chidi Onumah Of course, Bugaje is not the first person from the “North” to theorize about the source and ownership of the oil in Nigeria. During the dictatorship of Gen. Sani Abacha, at the height...
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Perry Brimah: Please do not celebrate my death
by Perry Brimah I scoured comments on the news sites and facebook pages and was delivered to a state of aggravated shock. People, mostly of a peculiar ethnicity were celebrating all these incidents of...
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Opinion: You don’t have to be good in bed to keep a man
by Opeyemi Akinkusote Contrary to many whacked views (I got no apology for saying this), you don’t have to be good in bed to keep a man! To be honest, this article is more focused on female folks than...
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Pius Adesanmi: Kiss-ing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
by Pius Adesanmi Until Sefiu, the vulcanizer at Ajegunle, can turn on his water tap without relying on borehole…any talk of Nigeria being the largest economy cannot be worth more than the paper it is...
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Opinion: The malady of love (Poetry)
by Emmanuel Okonkwo Wisdom is thrown from the window’s heart. For many a men in it have nieghed and died!. You wish to hold them from growing too fast. You wish to tell them how to play it right Ah...
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Opinion: Don’t just say NO to rape, say NEVER
by Yusuf Mahmud The advent of certain entertainers (Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and P-Square come to mind) both at home and abroad with a penchant for glorifying deviant sexual behaviour may, perhaps...
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Opinion: Open letter to Pastor Adeboye on the perennial traffic lockdown in...
by Amenze Iyamu At this point sir, I want to say that I am aware that certain persons will begin to run their mouth wild forgetting temporarily that when they speak against God’s anointed, they...
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Simon Kolawole: Why Nigeria stays among the poorest nations in the world
by Simon Kolawole Ironically, a few days later, the World Bank President, Dr Jim Yong Kim, classified Nigerians and Indians among the poorest in the world. He said “two-thirds of the world’s extreme...
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Tunde Fagbenle: Oil companies, exploitation and unemployment
by Tunde Fagbenle Okoigun is able to commend the present government of President Jonathan for enacting “the Nigerian Oil and Gas Content Development Law in 2010,” and apparently actively pursuing its...
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Opinion: Ilaje 2014 polls – Many candidates but not enough promises to go round
by Samuel Orukotan Why are we planning to smuggle arms and ammunitions just to alter the decisions of a collective people? Isn’t this another political hoo-hah? Definitely, it is. If the Ilaje’s...
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Femi Fani-Kayode: The strange dream of a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket...
by Femi Fani-Kayode Presenting a Muslim/Muslim ticket for the 2015 Presidential election ticket, no matter how cleverly rationalised, defended or justified in the pursuit of an ideal or in the name of...
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Sonala Olumhense: Is there a conspiracy against Nigeria?
by Sonala Olumhense More than anyone else, these countries know exactly what is behind the atrocious governance in Nigeria, and why we find it difficult to develop. Mr. Obama has for this reason...
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Femi Aribisala: Having sex in your dreams and spiritual warfare
by Femi Aribisala Having sex in the dream is an index of lack of spiritual fervency. This renders us to be a city without walls that the enemy can come into and defile. A colleague brought a...
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Bamidele Aturu: Crisis in the Rivers state judiciary and its feudalistic traits
by Bamidele Aturu Whatever option it chooses, the NJC should withdraw the query it issued to Justice Agumagu as it is uncalled for and constitutes nothing but unthinkable intimidation from a body of...
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Cheta Nwanze: What Nigeria needs to know about the ‘global economy’
by Cheta Nwanze Today’s piece is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they helped Nigeria or not. The reason I chose this particular topic for today is because of...
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Perry Brimah: So Government took N1 billion from unemployed youth and gave...
by Perry Brimah What are the terms of this loan to the auto cabal, if that is what it is? What is the oversight of these “companies” given money and how is the selection made? Are they simply...
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Adaobi Okwy: No guys, today’s women cannot be like your mothers (Y!...
by Adaobi Okwy Let’s back up now men shall we? When you say you want women like your mothers…I think of my own mother. She is wonderful…for MY mother but, I wouldn’t for the life of me want her as my...
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Tunde Leye: Tin billionaires – Why Dangote and his ilk won’t thrive outside...
by Tunde Leye In Nigeria, we have billionaires who are worth more than the companies from which they are supposed to derive their wealth. We have people making billions from industries where their...
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Opinion: New Constitution – Nigerian lawmakers need to sit up and do the needful
by Ibanga Isine Almost every delegate agreed that corruption is the mother of all the problems confronting Nigeria. It was funny and equally heart-breaking to see delegates who had opportunities to...
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Opinion: Nigeria’s GDP Rebasing and voodoo statistics
by Jibrin Ibrahim The real issue for me however is what does it really mean to say our economy is the largest in Africa. Nigeria remains a very poor country with almost 70% of the population living...
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