Opinion New electricity tariff is pro-poor, not a burden on majority of Nigerians, By Dapo Okubanjo April 9, 2024
Opinion Reincarnating Constable Ifeanyi at the Lekki Toll Gate, By Festus Adedayo by admin October 24, 2021 0 Oga, mek we kill am!, the gangling police constable had told my father. This was sometime in the early 1980s... Read more
Opinion Tribute to Professor (Chief) Toriola Ajagbe Oyewo, SAN designate at 91 years, By Mutalubi Ojo Adebayo by Akinwande Soji-Ojo October 22, 2021 0 In my early years at the Bar, precisely in 1995, I was doing my pupillage in the commercial law firm... Read more
Opinion ENDSARS as ‘dark notes on our history’ by Oludayo Tade by Roseline Oladele October 20, 2021 0 After years of agonising over their brutality and killing by the (now disbanded) Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a tactical unit... Read more
Opinion Widowed prematurely by Boko Haram, By Festus Adedayo by admin October 17, 2021 0 (Published by The Cable, October 17, 2021) “I lost my husband four weeks ago to Boko Haram.” That was the... Read more
Opinion Jonathan, Buhari cuckolding in time of war, By Festus Adedayo by admin October 10, 2021 0 Last Wednesday, Muhammadu Buhari and his newfound friend, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, locked each other inside the sacristy of the Nigerian... Read more
Opinion Buhari’s October 1 rhetoric, Mailafia and Akunyili’s murder, By Festus Adedayo by newspeak October 3, 2021 0 (Published by The Cable, October 3, 2021) I find a symbolic similarity between the travails of Dr. Chike Akunyili and... Read more
Opinion Ode to an Independence post, By Gbola Olagbegi by newspeak September 30, 2021 0 On 1st October 2021, Nigeria will celebrate Independence Day with march-pasts and speeches by dignitaries. But our leaders are oblivious... Read more
Opinion 2023: For Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, By Lasisi Olagunju by newspeak September 27, 2021 0 Alhaji Baba Ahmed, a Mauritanian cow seller, plied his trade from his country to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and... Read more
Opinion 2030 agenda for sustainable development, By Tola Winjobi by newspeak September 27, 2021 0 A TEXT OF SPEECH MADE BY DR TOLA WINJOBI THE NATIONAL COORDINATOR, CIVIL SOCIETY COALITION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ON THE... Read more
Opinion Ladoja @ 77: Remembering vision,dream that outlast his tenure in government, By Babs-Oluribigbe Adeoye by admin September 27, 2021 0 At 77, Osi Olubadan of Ibadanland, Sen. Rashidi Ladoja, is a fulfilled and happy man by every standard. Although, he... Read more
Opinion Nigeria’s huge market of blood and human sacrifice by Festus Adedayo by Roseline Oladele September 26, 2021 0 Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the torso of a young boy by the bank of River... Read more
Opinion Bawa, FFK, Shehu: Of slump, slum and somersault, By Festus Adedayo by Akinwande Soji-Ojo September 19, 2021 0 Last Thursday, when the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) reportedly slumped at the Presidential Villa, Abuja,... Read more
Opinion Tale of VAT, the lazy grasshopper and the ant by Festus Adedayo by Roseline Oladele September 12, 2021 0 There is this ancient fable of the ant and grasshopper that best explains the Nigerian fiscal federalism duel. Rivers State... Read more
Opinion Coronation of Olu of Warri and Nigeria’s Renaissance, By Tunji Olaopa by newspeak September 1, 2021 0 The coronation ceremony of any king in Nigeria, from the Alaafin of Oyo to the Emir of Zazzau, and from... Read more
Opinion Buhari: How not to fail, By Festus Adedayo by admin August 29, 2021 0 President Muhammadu Buhari made one of the most down-to-earth statements of his presidency last Thursday, though by proxy. After meeting... Read more