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Plateau, other killings: Enough is enough!
The scene was unsightly. It was ghoulish and shuddering. Human beings were being offloaded like bags of cement. A pile of…
The Natasha phenomenon
Like a bad, festering sore, the Akpabio-Natasha standoff has refused to abate. It has instead continued to ricochet with rebounds,…
Combating gale of sudden deaths
Yusuf Olaniyonu, a veteran journalist and former Ogun State Commissioner for Information, late last year told a story that read…
Rivers’ emergency rule: Matters arising
The tendentiousness of the emergency rule declared in Rivers State last Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu speaks so loudly in the…
Wild, wild Rivers? An appeal to Nyesom Wike
The spectacle playing out in Rivers State is disconcerting. It should bother all lovers of peace and democracy. It…
Akpabio vs. Natasha: Allow open, unfettered probe
The Senate appears to be unwittingly lending itself to suspicion in the incautious manner it is handling the imbroglio between the…
Obasa: Let judicial process run its course
Last Thursday, in a quite impolitic commando style, the impeached Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa,…
IBB’s specious June 12 tale: Let’s institute Truth Commission
At long last, Nigeria’s self-styled Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), has summoned the courage to tell his own…
Fillip to proposed 12-4 education system
The 12-year basic compulsory education system being proposed for Nigeria is quite laudable. The system, being proposed by the…
No to fuel imports!
It is utterly befuddling that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and other marketers in the downstream oil…