Opinion

With Amaechi “Hope is around the corner”

By Dr. Ogu Emejuru “The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong in the broken places….” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929 Back in the days of Watergate, people were summoned to serve in the jury. To…

Gov. Dapo Abiodun’s love for Womenfolk

By Kunle Somorin “The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.”— John McAfee Three years ago, precisely on the 29th of May, 2019, Ogun…

Nigeria’s 2023 outlook, the looming danger

By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D I am neither a prophet nor a clairvoyant, but from the manifestation in my crystal ball, I see Nigeria in 2023 being shaped by upheaval fueled by miseries and hopelessness.  Agitation reminiscent of the ENDSARS protests…

Tinubu 2023: Show me a man with a bigger heart

Nigerians should be proud of how much progressive politics has helped in tackling our challenges of development in seven years. It all started when Buhari’s CPC, Tinubu’s ACN and Oyegun’s ANPP as well as others came together to pull off…

Why unity is necessary in APC

By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta This is a personal plea with the members, leadership and stakeholders  of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to please close  ranks and unite  to sustain the nine-year old political party that has been wholehartedly trusted by…

Emefiele focused on the job at hand

…Who is afraid of Godwin Emefiele? In recent times, there have been media reports on the purported interest of the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, in the 2023 presidential race, leading to stampede by interested parties and vested…

Ekiti: APC, PDP primaries of controversies -2

By Bolanle Bolawole On June 1, 2018, there was pandemonium (“b’oolo, yaa’mi) at the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Ado-Ekiti as a chieftain of the party, Opeyemi Bamidele, was accidentally shot by a policeman at a rally organised by…