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Olusegun Adeniyi: I never encountered Mandela!
by Olusegun Adeniyi In what many people might even interpret as a sacrilege, one young South African, Andile Ngcolomba, told the London Observer last Saturday: “Mandela may be considered a great man...
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Dele Agekameh: Mandela, the litmus test of greatness
by Dele Agekameh Mandela said that he had learned that when you had the moral high ground, it was better to sit down, talk to people and persuade them of the correctness of your cause. “If you have an...
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Josef Omorotionmwan: Obasanjo and Jonathan present the worst specimen of Mandela
by Josef Omorotionmwan Yet, when Mandela passed on, Obasanjo presented the most beautiful rhyme on the type of loss Mandela’s death presented to his family, his state, his country and the world. What...
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Alkasim Abdulkadir: Will the real Nigerian Mandela, please stand up? (YNaija...
by Alkasim Abdulkadir Chief amongst them has been that of his receiving the Nobel Prize alongside his jailer De Klerk, of which the militant members led by his ex-wife Winnie Mandela are yet to...
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Opinion: These are very tough times ahead for the PDP
by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed The PDP is now very much a minority in the North, and its size will very likely shrink as more politicians realise that it will sink with their ambitions. APGA is tightening its...
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Opinion: A farewell like no other
by Kayode Komolafe The farewell witnessed a diversity, which could only be found a Mandela funeral. It was an ideological and political rainbow coalition of world leaders converging on a rainbow...
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Ochereome Nnanna: Discard wrong power sharing formular
by Ochereome Nnanna For instance, it was reported that the President alone will be nominating a whopping 120 members to the Conference. That is larger than the 96 members that the late General Sani...
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Demola Rewaju: Like Muslims, Christians have killed unbelievers too
by Demola Rewaju Historically, Christianity has its own dark era where wars were fought and people killed simply because they refused to accept the gospel of the Christ. As recently as a century ago,...
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Donu Kogbara: What Jonathan should learn from his mentor’s letter
by Donu Kogbara It’s possible that I am indulging in wishful thinking because I’m a Niger Deltan, but I share OBJ’s view that Jonathan has what it takes to save Nigeria….and reckon that if Jonathan...
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Akin Osuntokun: Sam Omatseye’s lies and propaganda against Momiko
by Akin Osuntokun I have for some time now imposed on myself the mission of campaigning against the resort to demonisation as a rough and ready tool of flagellating political opponents, more so, when...
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Ayokunle Odekunle: Mr. President, print that letter and read it before IBB...
by Ayokunle Odekunle President Jonathan has been a massive disappointment. When you fail, you become susceptible to attack from other failures. I have had my fair share of people who are approaching...
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Opinion: The NNPC is simply a metaphor for impunity, something has to be done
by Jaye Gaskia What is the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture [Less than N90bn] for example? What is the annual budget of Ekiti, or Osun, or Taraba, or Cross River states for...
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Opinion: Let me die just like Mandela
by Moses Adebayo Alao Can a man imprisoned for 27 years become president and clamour for peace and reconciliation rather than paying back the ‘enemies’? Yes, indeed there can be no other Mandela,...
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Opinion: OBJ- So long a letter
by Vanguard Nigerians around the country have read the letter and obviously have their own opinions as regards the contents. I don’t agree with Femi Fani-Kayode that OBJ has finally closed GEJ’s...
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Bisi Lawrence: A thought for our heroes past
by Bisi Lawrewnce Attempts which have been made in our nation to look — or, rather, not even make the effort to look —for a comparison among our historical figures in the struggle for our own...
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No political party can use us – ASUU
by Akintomiwa Agbaje Academic Staff Union of Universities [ASUU] has reiterated that it would resist every attempts made by any political party to use their name or situations to achieve their...
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Tonnie Iredia: ASUU strike – President Jonathan must be commended
by Tonnie Iredia It was indeed magnanimous that the Presidency allowed itself to be seen as the side that blinked first in the crisis. That, to our mind, is not a sign of weakness but rather a...
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Orji Uzor Kalu: Mandela treated me like a son till his death
by Orji Uzor Kalu I knew Mandela personally, and the relationship trickled down to his successors. The first day I met him was like somebody meeting God. I was then the governor of Abia State in...
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Femi Aribisala: Apostle Paul’s position on righteousness is highly irrelevant
by Femi Aribisala But listen instead to Isaiah: “Let grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the...
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Obi Nwakanma: Obasanjo’s letter drips with impatience and frustration
by Obi Nwakanma That said, it is clear that Obasanjo’s letter, dripping with frustration and his growing impatience with the president signals a critical open shot in the drama leading to 2015. But it...
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