In 2027, Tinubu Won’t Win; The Opposition Will Lose
By Farooq A. Kperogi If economic health, social vitality, and the raw pulse of public opinion were the only indicators relied upon to prognosticate the chances of President Bola Ahmed…
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Can Nigeria Afford Another Failed Census?
By Marcel Okeke President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took a major step towards the realization of the proposed national population and housing census by inaugurating an eight-man high-level committee led by…
Pope Francis (1936 – 2025)
by Reuben Abati Pope Francis who died yesterday morning, April 21, at the age of 88 was a trailblazer in more than one respect and definitely one of the most…
The wages of presidential subterfuge
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On the evening of 5 April 2012, the prime-time bulletin on the television news of the Malawi Broacasting Corporation (MBC), announced to the country that the…
Democratic Republic of Congo: Contradictions, agony and implications for pan Africanism
By ETIM ETIM Although the rest of Africa seems to have forgotten about the crisis and wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), some scholars, intellectuals and thinkers from…
Plateau, Tsiga and Trump
Reuben Abati “My brother, you do not look cheerful at all.” “I am just overwhelmed by everything” “Any personal issues? I hope there is no trouble in paradise and that…
Akpabio’s supernatural powers
By ETIM ETIM Senator Godswill Akpabio has been in public service for over two decades, but it’s only recently that his supernatural powers have been brought to national attention. These…
The Uromi 16 And The Problem With Nigeria
by Reuben Abati The killing last Friday of 16 Northern travellers along the Uromi-Ubiaja road in Edo state is an event that will live in infamy. Twenty-five travellers from Port…
Why Protests Fail in Nigeria: A Nation Trapped in its Own Chains
By Lisa Bassey “Nigeria, my beloved country Working together is the key Nigeria, my beloved country Her future is you and me.” Every time I remember the above song by…