Pope Obasanjo’s Message
By Chidi Amuta Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has once again done what he is reputed for. He has cast a big stone into Nigeria’s brackish political pool. The splash is all over the place. Like…
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Nigeria Is Missing Out On Yam Wealth
By Punch Editorial Board NIGERIA’S perennial failure to leverage its natural advantages to create wealth and eliminate poverty was brought into sharp relief Tuesday. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development admitted that while…
Now That The North Has Found Oil…
By Simon Kolawole In October 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel over its occupation of the Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula, two Arab territories. With the now-defunct Soviet Union (read Russia)…
Nigerian Teens Create Fashion From Trash To Fight Pollution
By Dan Ikpoyi and Chinedu Asadu Teenage climate activists in Nigeria’s largest city are recycling trash into runway outfits for a “Trashion Show.” Chinedu Mogbo, founder of Greenfingers Wildlife Initiative, a conservation group working with…
Soludo And Why Intelligence Is Never Enough
When Charles Soludo, the former CBN governor and present Anambra State governor accused Goodluck Ebele Jonathan of running CBN like Idi Amin (one of the most corrupt and violent African dictators) before the 2015 Nigerian…
Na Wa! See Reno Omokri
When I saw Reno Omokri, Dino Malaye and the gang of those who were part and parcel of Nigeria Limited in the past two decades with Atiku Abubakar in the US, I shook my head….
Can ‘Japa’ Land Nigeria in Japan?
By Simon Kolawole If you spend too much time on social media, you would swear that emigration, also known as “japa”, is new and peculiar to Nigeria. No, it isn’t. “Japa”, a Yoruba slang that…
Bandits Unleash Terror Across North
By Ishola Michael Murderous bandits have swept through a number of communities in Benue, Kebbi and Bauchi states in a wave of terror that claimed several lives. In Benue State, suspected herders invaded four communities…
The Northernisation Of 2023
By Akin Osuntokun “Conscious of this (Northern) hegemony and the fact that it does not have to be incompatible with the progress of Nigeria I have always argued that Northern hegemony per se is not…
Reactions Trail UAE Visa Ban On Nigerians
By Lilian Ukagwu United Arab Emirates has said it will no longer issue visa to Nigerian and 20 other African countries, although it did not give reasons for the ban. The PUNCH reported that 542…