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Opinion

May 5, 2022

Ayo Adebanjo’s musings on power shift

Nigeria must stop treating the South East as if it does not matter and still hope to find peace.

Ayo Adebanjo
May 4, 2022

How Nigeria is following coffin into 2023 grave

Unfortunately, irrespective of the climate, democracy is messy.

May 4, 2022

South-West in disarray

What is wrong with us? Even if it is a curse, can’t we awake from our bewitchment and deliver ourselves from captivity?

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Ekiti governor, Kayode Fayemi
May 2, 2022

Stop checking your husband’s phone; hypertension is real!

A 2020 study showed more than 28 million cases of hypertension in Nigeria, an unprecedented spike from four million in 1995.

African American couple used to illustrate the story
April 30, 2022

What history says about how Buhari’s successor will emerge

The noise about a possible Jonathan return and concerns that it could be disastrous for other aspirants may be good political gossip, but it’s a waste of time.

Muhammadu Buhari, Goodluck Jonathan, Bola Tinubu and Yemi Osibajo
April 30, 2022

Only these kinds of people will buy nomination forms for N100 million

Since Buhari and Osinbajo have made governance a brazen, no-consequence stealing bazaar, people see nomination fees as deposits for a chance to loot with impunity after 2023 poll.

Chris Ngige, Rotimi Amaechi, Bola Tinubu and Yemi Osinbajo
April 27, 2022

Osinbajo in Remo

From the turnout and enthusiasm at the event, it does appear Remo is excited about and supportive of the prospects of an Osinbajo Presidency!

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
April 26, 2022

The day I borrowed my neighbour’s wife

For the first time in my life, I ran away from sensible advice and borrowed my neighbour’s wife for a day.

Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
April 23, 2022

Verbal primitivism as PR in an election year

If Jonathan couldn’t reverse a bag of rice to the amount it was when he assumed power in 2010, why do people think he can reduce a bag of rice from N33,000 to N11,000 if reelected?

Goodluck Jonathan, Bola Tinubu and Yemi Osinbajo
April 21, 2022

Chrisland’s Dubai Five and our digital footprints

If our parents had the benefit of smartphones to monitor us, would they have seen something dramatically different in our secret lives from what we see in the Dubai Five today?

Chrisland and Burj Khalifa composite