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Governor Sanwo-Olu: Victim Or Villain? By Lekan Lawani

The sad events of November 20, 2020 have come and gone. The slain and the wounded #ENDSARS Protesters and there families are left to bear the burden of loss of their wounded and dead young ones. The real question is “What really happened?” This question continues to beg for correct answers. In this confusion and information contusion that followed, the… Read More
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Why Nigeria Cannot Sanction CNN By Evans Ufeli Esq

CNN, though in Nigeria, is an international media organisation in the United States of America which operates via cable television on DSTV network and other platforms. The operations of CNN on world press coverage is not regulated by the National Broadcasting Commission. NBC or the Minister of Information has no such powers to sanction an organisation that is not under… Read More
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Lekki Massacre: There Can Be No Peace Without Justice By Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed

Nigeria was built on a deceitful foundation, and all things woven around that deceit have now crumbled. Nigerians have been battling with sorrows and tears. We have not succeeded in attaining a peaceful moment as a people under a democratic dispensation. Like all dictators, bloodshed and bullet-firing are the only economic response that the Buhari regime can offer as a… Read More
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Understanding Nigeria’s Obsession With Rawlings By Azu Ishiekwene

The saying that a prophet is not appreciated at home may well be referring to former Ghanaian president, Jerry Rawlings, who died last Thursday from COVID-19 related complications, three weeks after his mother was buried. Ghana is in seven days of mourning, but Nigeria is crying more than the bereaved. Among Nigeria’s political elite, there has been a “condolence contest.”… Read More
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The Charade Called FG-ASUU Negotiations By Olabisi Deji-Folutile

Four days ago, Manuel Merino, Peru’s Interim President, resigned a day after two people were killed during protests against his government. The two died as a result of a police crackdown on protesters.  Merino’s resignation came a few days after taking over from President Martín Vizcarra. Unlike Nigeria’s #ENDSARS protesters that were just sitting down singing the national anthem and… Read More
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Nigeria: A Decade Of Impunity And Inaction By Netsanet Belay

On 18 November 2010, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened a preliminary examination into the situation in Nigeria. It is a decade on now, yet the Prosecutor is yet to make a decision on whether to proceed with investigating and prosecuting perpetrators of crimes committed in the northeast by both sides to the conflict: Boko Haram and… Read More
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Has The Microphone Been Turned Off On National Assembly’s N81bn Probe Of NDDC? By Fredrick Nwabufo

Probe. This is another word for political manoeuvring, horse-trading, chicanery and blackmail – in the Nigerian milieu. Probes are launched here not for righteous ends but for some predetermined recidivist motives. In particular, the so-called ‘’corruption probes’’ are themselves felonious panels set up to exact vengeance, broker deals or cause distraction from national discontent. Beelzebub cannot cast out demons. I… Read More
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We Saved Christianity By Voting Trump Out By Churchill Okonkwo

My summary of the outcome of the United States election was that the promoters of nationalism, isolationism, xenophobia, conspiracy theories, lies, indecency, hatred, division were rejected. We saved science; we saved democracy; we saved the world, and we saved Christianity too. One of the things that became clear to me after Joe Biden won the United States presidential election was… Read More
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Femi Adesina And The Parable Of The Tolerant Father By Achike Chude

Re: Femi Adesina’s ‘We Have Not Many Fathers’ And so, Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says that we were lucky that the other side of the president that is frightening, fearful, and vicious was not manifested, otherwise ears would have tingled and tongues wagged about the calamities that would have befallen us lesser mortals following the #EndSARS episode. In his words,… Read More