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June 12 and an imperial presidency
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, ...
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‘Gbe body e’: The Action imperative
Every day in the jungle, a gazelle wakes up knowing that it must outrun the fastest lion if it is ...
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What Delilah-competitors are actually looking for
At a meeting, a few days ago, I spoke on this profound topic to some hundreds of business executives—who gathered ...
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Zamfara and the price of impunity
ON Friday, May 24, 2019, the Supreme Court put a final death kernel on the fate of the All Progressives ...
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Group calls on Sanwo-Olu to convene youth forum in Lagos
A youth group in Lagos State has called on the incoming Lagos Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to convene a youth ...
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Naira Marley as template of a failed nation
I accept friend requests of people younger than I am after taking a trip to their walls on Facebook. If ...
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A slavish parliament and the road to Buhari’s life presidency
ON June 11, 2019, Nigeria inaugurated what promises to be the most servile and least independent National Assembly in Nigeria’s ...
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Beyond Fayose: The future of Ekiti
I spent the better part of last Tuesday, October 16, focusing on developments in Ekiti State. It was the day ...
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Financing holidays
Leisure is a vital part of life. It is essential to take time off work and away from familiar environments ...
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Are you going to sit back and watch our country die?
IT sounds hackneyed to say that we in Nigeria face extraordinary challenges. We may not be quite a failed state; ...
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Will NASS become a state assembly?
A good friend of mine who is an encyclopaedia on Nigerian politics told me a pathetic story a few days ...
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Wealth, property, concord
SAMPLE 1: “Following apparent lack of diligence on the part of IPOs at FESTAC Police Station and Gender Unit to ...
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Re: Where is my Mummy?
Kemi, your case is very simple. All you need do is to send your mum’s details if you have any ...
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Re: I want to end it all!
Olufunso,I will advise you to approach the Pastoral team for a job and a house. Also, you can either file ...
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What is the implication of long abstinence from s*x?
Dear Yemisi, Please, what happens to a man without s*x over years? I equally want to know the remedy for ...
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Eventually, Fayemi wins the argument…
There must be an end to litigation. So, an end came to litigation arising from the July 14, 2018 Ekiti ...
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Constitutionality of dragging the army into electoral process: Caution (Yusuf V Obasanjo)
THE 2019 presidential elections are a few days away and aside from the ongoing campaign of the candidates, one aspect ...
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The causes of our national maladies are essentially economic
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK THE thirty-months’ Civil war which has just ended had witnessed and produced many tragedies, including unproductive ...
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The power of reading books (I)
Life is dynamic – things are changing fast and knowledge is being added to life to at an alarming rate ...
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Nigerians wake up; God is not your government
In the most un-presidential response to a national challenge, President Muhammadu Buhari, while visiting Plateau State in June 2018, to ...
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How aviation agencies ignore information sharing
Each time one reads that award winning literature book, One week, one trouble by Anezi Okoro and in applying it ...
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What is there after Ramadan?
Yesterday, we were waiting for Ramadan. However, today, we have said goodbye to it, as if this month were moments ...
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Seyi Makinde’s cancellation of N3000 school fees
Did Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State realise that, in his first official pronouncement on May 29, 2019 stopping the ...
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As I take a bow…
ON Thursday, June 6, I clocked 16 years of active service both as an insider and observer at the chambers ...
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Na who teach Ambode for sense (2)
Last week, Dr. Doyin Okupe, unstable PDP stalwart, went prophetic on Ambode who he said was not a friend because ...
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Industrialist canvasses for low cost of building materials
THE need to facilitates a conducive environment where ease of doing business would be enhanced has been canvassed by industrialist, ...
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Wale Adebanwi on Mama HID (63)
WHILE her children and grandchildren were meeting in Efunyela Hall, someone suggested that H.I.D should go to Efunyela Hall to ...
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Dayo Abatan at 79
ON May 15, Chief Dayo Abatan will turn 79. Dayo is one of my very close friends. We are also ...
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Wale Adebanwi on Mama HID (62)
PUNCTUALITY, THE “DISEASE” OF THE conscientious, was still “tormenting” HID at 99. Almost nine decades of “setting forth at dawn” ...
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Kwame Nkrumah: 46 years after
ON this day, 46 years ago, the torch-bearer of African revolution, Kwame Nkrumah, died in Bucharest, Romania. He was said ...
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Wale Adebanwi on Mama HID (61)
WHILE all the adherents of the Awolowo were feuding, the dominant conservative coalition which had ruled Nigeria in one guise ...
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The accented sacrifice and other distractions
Globally, it is the stock in trade of administrations to find the right bones to throw at the mob to ...
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DRUM DIALOGUES: Master Drummer and The Accompaniments
Drum dialogue occurs between the lead drummer and the other drummers in the ensemble, and also, between lead drummer and ...
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