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Opinion

February 19, 2023

How 2023 will be an election like no other

One question to be answered in this election could be whether the country has the imagination and resilience to find pathways beyond these traditional fissures.

Peter Obi, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar.
February 18, 2023

Which candidate will benefit from Buhari’s naira policy?

Peter Obi might also theoretically benefit from the financial constraining of Tinubu, but whether it will be enough to one-up Atiku remains to be seen.

Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar
February 18, 2023

Akeredolu’s beef with Northern beef

It is clear that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s claim that the Southwest was ‘losing’ N2.5 billion daily to the North due to the consumption of beef is false.

Rotimi Akeredolu
February 16, 2023

Looking back, facing forward as Nigeria decides

As Nigerians go to the ballot on Saturday, February 25 to elect a new president, not a few voters think that the worst mistake would be to let Buhari happen again.

Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari
February 14, 2023

Of Peter Obi and Onitsha market polls

These polls, which mock reality, objectivity and common sense, could be ammunition for what is to come if the election does not go in the way of the ‘’Obidients’’.

Peter Obi, Anap Poll, Nextier Poll and Bloomberg
February 14, 2023

As Nigeria searches for light in a 2023 dark alley

I really don’t understand how Peter Obi, who was barely five years when the 1966 crisis began, should suffer the consequences of the events of a dark era long gone.

Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar
February 12, 2023

Machina-Lawan judgment shows Nigeria’s Supreme Court dangerous to rule of law

Could the Supreme Court be hard at work to ensure democratic government and society as a whole don’t function?

Supreme Court Judges
February 11, 2023

Buhari burning Nigeria because he wants to catch a BAT

Inflicting mass hurt on a large swath of people gives Buhari immense joy.

President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu
February 7, 2023

Thank you, Bola Tinubu

Who cares if you don’t know the first line of the Quran? What matters is that you know the way.

Bola Tinubu
February 5, 2023

Enugu Rangers International and the allure of soft power

Where the violence of the war had failed, the soft power of the indomitable spirit of Rangers International had persuaded Nigeria into a love affair with their origins.

Rangers International Football Club of Enugu