PERSPECTIVE – Obi, Baba-Ahmed: Now, Nigerians have a choice
By Etim Etim Now, let me say this publicly. Until a few days ago when it was clear that Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed has been tapped as his ticket mate, I did not pay much…
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PERSPECTIVE – Delta 2023: Scripted subterfuge and the covert anti-PDP agenda of an unscrupulous clique
By MSD The Movement for Stronger Delta MSD, has read, watched, and followed with anger and trepidation, the frenetic, devious, diabolical desperation, which has consumed a particular clique of Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…
PERSPECTIVE – The moral burden of the Tinubu drug story
By Etim Etim In the lead up to the 1983 presidential elections in which President Shehu Shagari was contesting for a second term, the police arrested the son of Mr. Tunji Braithwaite, one of the…
FOR THE RECORD – Revitalising University Education: The Leadership Question
By Professor Paul Omojo Omaji Vice Chancellor, Admiralty University of Nigeria Omaji-vc@adun.edu.ng Lecture presented at the 2022 Distinguished Annual Public Service Lecture of the University of Ibadan Alumni Association, Asaba Chapter, held at the Press…
PERSPECTIVE – Nigeria’s presidential flag-bearers and the road to 2023
By Abiodun Komolafe The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)-monitored party presidential primary elections have come and gone and, as the saying goes, the rest is history! With various candidates pushing private agenda, diverse groups’ interests…
PERSPECTIVE – Okowa is not a traitor, and did not betray anybody; the traitors and betrayers know themselves
By MSD The Movement for Stronger Delta MSD, has read with deep concern and utmost disappointment, the growing, yet unprovoked and obviously ill-timed, ill-intentioned, and ill-directed castigations of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for accepting the…
PERSPECTIVE – Stop terrorists’ influx into Nigeria
By Tola Adeniyi Buoyed by the spectacular achievement of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari in his rabid drive of the undisguised Fulanization Agenda, 16 countries where the pastoral Fulani could be found were emboldened to gather in…
PERSPECTIVE – Between ‘betrayal’, ignorance, and giving power to the people
By Joel Odhomo Salubi (Mr. JOS) Our attention has been drawn to a write-up titled: THE MANY PEOPLE GOVERNOR IFEANYI A. OKOWA HAS BETRAYED and after reading through thoroughly, critically, and dispassionately, we have come…
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PERSPECTIVE – The unravelling of Nigeria
By Owei Lakemfa The Federal Government on Thursday announced that the Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, was responsible for the June 5, 2022 massacre of 40 worshippers at the St Francis Catholic Church,…
FLASH BACK/FOR The RECORD -“Enough is Enough the Epetedo declaration by Aare Ona Kakanfo M.K.O. Abiola on Saturday June 11, 1994
“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH THE EPETEDO DECLARATION BY AARE ONA KAKANFO M.K.O. ABIOLA ON SATURDAY JUNE 11, 1994, announcing the formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU) came a year after fleeing for his…