Columns

  The 9th NASS leadership and their cohorts on the floor who rejected e-transmission obviously don’t give a hoot that scores of Nigerians will be murdered again in 2023 through result-sheets snatching, which e-transmission would have stopped. By Harry Agina | July 25, 2021 Like many Nigerians, I lamented in 2019 the undemocratic imposition of Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila ...

  “With Nigeria’s population demography in favour of youths as those from ages 1-14 are about 43.69 and those between ages 15-64 are 53.57, Nigeria needs a person(s) who could create programs or projects that all Nigerians especially the youths can key into to help activate a powerful new Nigeria” By Shadrach Chidi Onye | July 22, 2021 In the ...

  I know a student who had great UTME scores from last year but had no success getting a place at the University of his choice even though he had more than the minimum entry requirements. He retook it this year and fell short of the minimum cutoff by a wide margin. By Farooq Kperogi | JUNE 29, 2021 Why ...

  By Harry Agina |June 26, 2021 “DEAL RUTHLESSLY WITH BANDITS & TROUBLEMAKERS,” SAYS PRESIDENT BUHARI TO NIGERIA’S ARMED FORCES: MATTERS ARISING The last NBB of June 21, 2021, was titled “The Doublespeak of President Buhari on War Against Fulani Killer-Herdsmen”, which encourages ethno-religious clashes in the country. My “doublespeak” means that he seems to deliberately attempt to disguise the ...

  “When Buhari said to Ortom, “accommodate your countrymen” amid herdsmen attacks, it was akin to endorsing Miyetti Allah’s justification of the atrocities of the herdsmen” By Harry Agina, June 21, 2021 For long, Nigerians complained that our president, Mohammadu Buhari, was/is an absentee autocratic RULER, with proxies who represent him by disdainfully TALKING AT, and TALKING DOWN ON Nigerians. ...

  So, the message passed across by the interview was that the president knows that the problems come from foreign herders wielding AK-47s but his simple response is to resuscitate grazing routes as a solution to the menace posed by the Fulani militia. By Emmanuel Aziken Disclaiming conspiracy theories of a presidency that had been hijacked by a few visible ...

  “Let me call names in this article and I careless whoever feels hurt. Today the number one crime in Nigeria is SUPPOSEDLY Fulani, person die na Fulani, them thief money na Fulani , Buhari makes an appointment, it must be a Fulani, so what then are we doing about it?” One of the Nigerian politicians whom I have great ...

  Yes, sing it from Abeokuta to Kaura Namoda, from Isokoland to Brass, from Orlu to Nsukka, Nigeria will survive. To, therefore, continue to wail about disintegration is now bordering on Iberiberism. We need to change our tongue and our song. Nigeria go survive. By Femi Adesina Which one is Iberiberism again o? What kind of English shall we not ...

  Three years ago I warned the Yoruba in particular and the Southerners, in general, to set up their own People’s Militia. How many paid heed to it. Now I am afraid it is now late – too late for the Yorubas. You are surrounded. By Moses Oludele Idowu “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when ...

  If it is done, the whole of Northern Nigeria will become like another Libya. A complete breakdown of law and order. Northern Nigeria will become a killing field with bandits and warlords roaming the country and engaging themselves in a war of supremacy By Dele Obamodi It is now obvious that Sheikh Gumi relishes in publicity and sophistry. The ...