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Awo and the truth about Baba Layinka
Were Chief Obafemi Awolowo to be alive, he would have turned 106 yesterday, March 6, 2024. Thirty-seven years after his death, Awolowo thoughts remain a dominant element of the Nigerian…
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Rolling blackouts, heatwave and tales from dead bulbs
I don’t know how it is in your part of town. But it’s been a nightmare in mine, a supposedly middle-class residential area in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital. Rolling blackouts do not…
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Deep calleth out to the deep…
Last week, I asked the question which life we would love to live – biblical Abraham’s or Lazarus’s – and it drew a lot of comments. I must admit that it isn’t everyone who can connect…
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A converged regulator for Broadcasting and Telecoms?
But did you observe that the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris Malagi, hardly said anything about the relationship between NCC and NBC? There was no…
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The reason for the spat between NLC and President Tinubu
Unlike humans, who can act with immediacy and speed, policy changes are often bogged down by bureaucratic bottlenecks designed to maintain the integrity of the public administration…
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1999 Constitution: Beyond amendments
Just exactly how does one go about amending a document such as the Nigerian Constitution, filled with manifest inconsistencies and fallacies, creating a supposed federation governed…
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New Justices of the Supreme Court
With the current talk about reconfiguration, decentralisation and restructuring, whichever phrase suits our fancy, the Nigerian judiciary is also in urgent need of reconfiguring.…
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Subsidy again?
Curiously, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited has not deemed it fit to deny the serious allegation that fuel subsidy has been restored. Since there is no…
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Oronsaye report: A past distraction for Tinubu’s present hunger
WORDS are suddenly inadequate to capture the level of hunger in Nigeria. Cryptic sides of the hunger narratives tend to obscure the debates about our hunger for just food, any food.…
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Governance is not rocket science
...the Presidency should avoid knee-jerk actions like invading warehouses in the name of searching for hoarded food. We know the causes of hyperinflation in the country. These include…
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