Nobel Prize for peacemakers and warmongers By Owei Lakemfa
THE Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps the most prestigious annual award in the world, suffers from...
Columns/ Letters/ Opinions
Nasir El-Rufai; A Proud Fulani Herdsmen Offspring By Bolaji Akinyemi
In recent times, the social media space has been awash with postulations of possible pair...
Sheikh Ahmed Gumi: The Making Of Nigerian Ayatollah By Bolaji Akinyemi; ‘A similar situation that led to the Islamic revolution in Iran is occurring in Nigeria. Can the world afford a population of over 200 million fall into the hands and control of fundamental Islam?
1979 was one inauspicious year for Africa. It was the year Matthew Okikiola Olusegun Aremu...
A Tale Of Three Femis; Fani-Kayode, Gbajabiamila And Adesina By Bolaji Akinyem; Gumi is condemned Adesina is vindicated. But Adesina should be reminded that his actions today under Buhari will tomorrow stand for judgment in the court of posterity.
There are majorly three Femis in the Nigeria media space none of who can be...
Tinubu Is Not Above The Law By Richard Akinola; ‘l can’t see how Tinubu’s current investigation by the EFCC can be divorced from his supposed presidential ambition, a move that would inevitably garner him more sympathy than opprobrium’
No man is above the law, including Tinubu. If there are reasons to investigate Asiwaju...
‘Don’t Be Frightened By The Plight of Your Predecessors’; Osita Chidoka Writes Open Letter To New EFCC Chair
My Dear Abdulrasheed Bawa, Congratulations on your appointment as EFFC Chairman. As somebody who shares...
If Nigeria can learn basic lessons, so can Africa By By Owei Lakemfa; ‘It was one of the most scandalous and most embarrassing decisions of the Muhammadu Buhari government because its candidate for this very important position, was unknown not only in the AU, but also in Nigeria’
THERE is a widespread belief that Africa’s problems are basically leadership. It does not seem...
A People, United: Conversations with the Saharawi foreign minister By Owei Lake; “Salem wrapped up the discussions with his submission that Nigeria as an African leader must play its role to “defend the shared principles of Africa”
MOHAMMED Salem Uld Salek descended the stairs of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, SADR, Embassy...
IS THE SPIRIT OF 1840 OSOGBO WAR BACK TO THE YORUBA LAND? BY GBADE ADEMOLA
There had been series of wars between the Yoruba and the Fulani but the battle...
KOLAWOLE ODETOLA’S BITTER TRUTH BY FEMI FANI-KAYODE; ‘The day these herders and fundamentalists take over Lagos (and one day they will) -the only natural barrier for them; where they cant ‘graze cattle’ is the Atlantic ocean, the penny will drop and the urban elite will wake up from their complacency – but by then it will be too late’
Mr. Kolawole Odetola, who I do not know and I have never met, wrote the...
