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LORI IRO: The Evil That Lie Merchants Do
You have probably seen something on social media, which I consider a parody of lie merchants against our country. We will talk about it in a minute. But let me take an early digression to…
A generation ambushed by drugs
NELSON Mandela, the legendary African anti-apartheid fighter, said the future belongs to the youth, but Barak Obama qualified it by saying that the future belongs to young people with…
Presidency 2023: Is Akinwunmi Ambode North’s Trump Card?
President Muhammadu Buhari’s foggy succession plan is spawning speculations of an unlikely dark horse from the South-West – backed by the North. Unassuming former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode…
Direct primaries and direct wahala for godfathers
The claim by some Nigerians that there is no difference between the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC may have been consolidated by the parties’ common…
As Ganye Kingdom turbans Adamu Atiku, Maxwell Gidado
Come Saturday, November 27, 2021, Adamawa State and indeed the great Ganye Chiefdom will stand still as six illustrious sons and daughters of the chiefdom will be turbaned by…
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit and the positives of signaling
Barring any last-minute change, President Muhammadu Buhari will be receiving an August visitor in November. South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the company of top…
Igbo leaders meeting with Buhari over Nnamdi Kanu — Vanguard Editorial
IT is encouraging to see that President Muhammadu Buhari is in touch with elders and leaders of the Igbo nation in efforts to resolve the crisis of confidence between the Indigenous…
2023: Who Will Be The President?
NIGERIA’s ThisDay newspaper, on August 9, while posing the big-story question – “2023: Who Leads Nigeria?” – highlighted particularly a certain number of public figures…
ENDSARS PANEL: My Tentative Comment
By Sir Richard Akinnola II While l was away, l read quite a number of reactions to the Endsars panel unsigned report shared online. What l have been able to distil are emotive…
Finally, Maina Goes To Jail
After a decade of high drama and powerplay, the law has finally caught up with the seemingly untouchable former chairman of the Pension Reforms Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. On…
Religion, politics and prejudice
As I was saying, an unliberated mind is instinctively sold to prejudice. It is a form of imprisonment. I had barely shut down my laptop after writing on ‘Yoruba Muslims and the Fifth…
2023 election: The north is indispensable
In Nigeria’s politics, the north holds the trump card – an inconvenient reality. By the inexorable contrivance of the divine, the northern region is a chief decider of the nation’s leadership.…
Babajide Akeredolu’sAppointment: What is the Fuss?
It was a welcome development and a sign of good things to come when on May 31, 2018, Muhammadu Buhari signed the Not Too Young To Run bill into law. Not Too Young To Run an…
Meth has found its market in Nigeria
Nigeria has emerged over the past decade as a significant producer of methamphetamine (meth), a highly addictive and illegal synthetic psychostimulant drug. Since the National Drug Law…
Sanwo-Olu’s 360 Degrees Wahala
Until that tragedy occurred, I had never heard the name Femi Osibona. But within a few hours of the collapse of his Ikoyi 21-storey building in Lagos, I came to learn a great…
Yoruba Muslims and the fifth columnists
A Yoruba Muslim engineer recently alleged that because of his Islamic faith, he was denied a job by Femi Osibona, the real estate tycoon behind the collapsed 21-storey building. Since…
Ikoyi Building Collapse: Dele Momodu’s Insensitive PR Stunt
Popular Nigerian ‘Journalist’ Dele Momodu a.k.a Bob Dee means different things to different people. To some he is the archetypal grass to grace story whose palm kernels were broken for…
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict:…
When wars and armed conflicts breakout in a place our assessment of the extent of the resultant damage is always placed on the number of causalities, displaced people, destroyed…
How I battled with voice in the bush over RCCG leadership — Adeboye
An aspect of Pastor Enoch Adeboye’s disarming humility is his ability to share the wretchedness of his background without worries. He recently had no qualms admitting that he was born in…
SWAGA’23: Yoruba must look beyond Tinubu’s ambition
What exactly do the Yoruba want as a constituent part of Nigeria? What is the political agenda of the South-West? Well, without a doubt, it is restructuring. The South-West has long been…
Nigeria at crossroads again: Do not die in their war!
There is no minute atom of doubt that the country is at a crossroads at the moment and needs an urgent fix to keep it going otherwise something may have to give way…
Hypocrisy as a political pastime
You need to see me laughing quietly in my corner as we prepare for the 2023 presidential election. The political debate has been built around where the next president should…
Review of the EEG scheme
The export expansion grant (EEG) scheme is a vital policy instrument to boost the competitiveness of Nigerian products in the international market and grow non-oil exports. As the bulk of…
Lessons from the rubbles of the collapsed 21 storey building
By Muyiwa Adetiba We were in traffic along Kingsway Road Ikoyi when my driver who normally keeps to himself while driving, asked a most unusual question. He pointed to a…