It was typical of punctilious Godwin Obaseki to assume that mere appeal to reason – this pious invocation of the spirit of good neighborliness – would be enough to rein in the Barbarians arriving Edo’s ancient gate. But as he…
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2019 ELECTION: INEC, VOTERS AND RELUCTANT OPTIMISM
As the nation races toward 2019 general election, many strange things are happening daily in our political space; some heartening and others, undesirable. Particularly echoing on this wavelength is the demand for a robust political partisanship. A move that is…
SOYINKA AND NIGERIA’S DINNER WITH THE DEVIL – REUBEN ABATI
Professor Wole Soyinka was keynote speaker at the maiden annual lecture of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism held in Lagos on March 15. Topic: “Rebuilding Trust in a Divided Nigeria: Can Nigeria be fixed?” The Nobel Laureate…
‘AUTHORITY STEALING’ AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
The news of the confirmation of the humungous amount of money collected every month by members of the Senate as running expenses hit Nigerians like a thunder bolt. In the past, there have been unsubstantiated rumours about the exact…
BABAJIDE KOLADE OTITOJU: THE HANGING JOURNALIST
by Oyez Olatunde Rex This is a profound man. I tell you, Marley really is deep. I speak not of Robert Nesta Marley, I only delved back to teen years when we called Babajide Kolade Otitoju, Marley. Now, here was…
LAGOS STATE AND THE POLITICS OF TAXATION- REUBEN ABATI
The government of Lagos state seems to be currently in the eye of the storm over its introduction of a law, a property tax as it were, known as the Land Use Charge Act of 2018, which repeals a similar…
BBC IGBO AND YORUBA: THE CRUX OF THE MATTER
Many thought-provoking questions have been raised while many also frowned at the recent development of the BBC. On Monday dated the 19th day of February, 2018, the BBC Igbo and Yoruba services were birthed. Practically, many were elated at such…
AFRICA: A CONTINENT WITHOUT DEMOCRATS – REUBEN ABATI
The second wave of democratization in Africa, beginning in the 80s, and the gradual establishment of democracy as the new normal in the continent brought much hope and excitement. As we have seen in the recent intervention by the military…
THE PRACTICE OF TITHING HAS EXPIRED- PST. SAM ADEYEMI
Sam Adeyemi, a world-renowned prosperity preacher based in Nigeria, who previously taught that tithing was a requirement for Christians to allow God’s blessings to flourish in their lives, stunned followers and critics in a recent message when he declared the…
WHOEVER NAMED LAI MOHAMMED AT BIRTH MUST HAVE BEEN A PROPHET– RENO
My attention has been drawn to fallacious comments made by the notoriously dishonest Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to the effect that the Jonathan administration did not act on time when the Chibok Girls were kidnapped whereas the Buhari…