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By Dianam P. Dianam The twentieth century drew to a close with America's erstwhile Queen of Daytime Television Oprah Winfrey clutching...

By Banji Ojewale A new race of men is springing up to govern the nation; they are the hunters after popularity, men ambitious…the demagogu...

By DAN AMOR Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye is not only a quintessential Nigerian writer and journalist, he is, undoubtedly, one of the most formida...

By   Paul Onomuakpokpo With a hasty dismissal of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as victims of self-induced embroilme...

By Banji Ojewale We are not in Spain. But there, it is claimed that bulls are enraged when red flags flutter before them.    The matador, ...

By   Paul Onomuakpokpo If the senate really needed unimpeachable answers to the nation’s security questions, it only demonstrated another ...

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye Since Mr. Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) emerged the winner of the governorship election hel...

By Banji Ojewale I do not believe that a society can sustain its democratic claims if it allows its public office holders to run two lives...

By  Paul Onomuakpokpo One of the enduring tropes of human comeback and survival is associated with Fyodor Dostoevsky who gained reprieve f...

By Banji Ojewale Ghanaian writer, Ayi Kwei Armah, published the pillory, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born , in 1968, to mock his societ...

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye In the buildup to the 2015 elections, the wild, uproarious promotion of General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidentia...

By   Paul Onomuakpokpo With the current preoccupation of President Muhammadu Buhari with the setting up of his own university, his flatule...

By   Paul Onomuakpokpo It is the height of delusional optimism if northern elders expected to crawl out of their cocoon of safety and comp...

By Banji Ojewale H ow time flies! It’s been ten years since the death of Abiodun Kumuyi, beloved wife of Pastor W. F. Kumuyi, the highly r...

By  Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie Leah Sharibu has become a symbol of Nigeria in captivity. Yet, this powerful symbol is ignored. How d...

By Paul Onomukpokpo If William Shakespeare lived in the 21st century, Shylock might not have made the foil to Antonio. After all, with the...

By Banji Ojewale It has been said of Obafemi Awolowo, Western Nigeria’s first premier, that like Roman Empire’s first emperor, Augustus Ca...

By Banji Ojewale Between the patience of a president and the truculence of a party man, there is a hungry chasm spoiling to swallow the wh...

By   Paul Onomuakpokpo Whenever trigger-happy cops kill an innocent citizen, they have only given expression to the adversarial relationsh...

By Banji Ojewale Professor Toyin Falola has put it most concisely: Pius Adesanmi is the man who leaves and lives. He argues that although ...