Steps for Democracy…Forward or Backward? By Akin Adesokan
It was both sobering and pleasing to read a long interview with the governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, published...
End the Pretence, Declare Nigeria a Unitary State! By Ogaga Ifowodo
The Vanguard of Monday, 14 July 2014 carried three full page advertorials on one issue: the impasse at the National...
NBC’S Worrisome Fatwas, By Garba Shehu
One of the greatest achievements of the military in Nigeria, the liberalization of the airwaves through the issuance of licenses...
Chibok Girls, the 100-Day Wait, By Debbie Ariyo
Today, 22 July, marks 100 days since the abduction of almost 300 girls by terrorists from their school dormitory in...
Looking Back at the NBA Elections 2014, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
In the run in to the elections into national offices in the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in July 2012, a...
Jonathan, His $1billion Boko Haram Loan, And 2015 Election, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
There comes another request for loan designed to immiserate the country more than ever before and for nothing but the...
Nigerian politicians are thieves, but they are not corrupt, By Femi Aribisala
We need to tell the world that we have “re-based” the corruption index in Nigeria and found it to be...
Bishop Kukah’s Grave Misreading, By Okey Ndibe
Here (culled for brevity) is what Bishop Kukah had to say about me (and, in an indirect way, about some...
TRIBUTE: Bamidele Aturu: Painful Exit Of The People’s Lawyer, By Akintunde Akanni
Bamidele Aturu’s path first crossed mine at the Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, in the mid 1990s where I shared the...
The American View and the Nigerian Crisis, By Jibrin Ibrahim
One direct question we posed at the Department of Defence was why the Americans had not used their sophisticated equipment...
