Columns/ Letters/ Opinions

The Ninth Assembly and a reporter’s obsession with bias; ‘My question: Whose interest is the reporter possibly serving to take such a risk despite working for a credible media organisation as Premium Times?’ -Ezrel Tabiowo

Leadership is Difficult Because Governance is very Stubborn; ‘Buhari refused assent to the electoral bill because of a single provision, eleven days later, he readily signed the 2022 Budget which he told the nation has over 6,600 controversial insertions’ -Owei Lakemfa

PICK LEADERS NOT RULERS; ‘The planning and permutations by the various power centres are not about national interest or development. It is not about how to grow the economy and bring prosperity; not about how to secure the country; not about how to give jobs to the teeming youths, but how to grab power and then wonder how to “rule” later’ – Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim

Issues for Successful APC National Convention; ‘The risk of recruiting, training, providing arms and meeting the operational costs of the police without guaranteed funding could only compound the problem of insecurity in Nigeria’

IN DEFENCE OF EVANG NAOMI BY EBENEZER ADENIYAN; ‘The palace did not make Naomi. It only exposed her to the world and public scrutiny. She was doing well in her own right and did not go to that palace as a nobody’

2022: Year of Triple T; ‘Nigeria’s road will be rough in the Triple T year. With dwindling revenue and crippling, yet mounting, debt servicing-cum-repayment’ -Bola Bolawole

WHO KILLED BOLA IGE? ‘For 14 years, we asked the PDP government to solve the assassination of Bola Ige. They did not. For seven years, we have been asking the APC government of President Muhammadu Buhari who killed Bola Ige? There is no answer yet’ -Dare Babarinsa

Cry Lagos, Cry! So Nigeria May Weep’; ‘South South are so inconsequential in Tinubu’s political calculations that he is not prepared to loose a night’s sleep over them’ -Bolaji Akinyemi