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INEC’s Naked Dance in Ondo
By Festus Adedayo
There is no way a man would judge his own case and lose. That is the logical basis for the legal maxim nemo judex in causa sua. It is the reason an umpire's company is always of interest to contestants.…
ZIK GBEMRE BECKONS ON TINUBU, NNPCL, TO LEAVE UTOROGU GAS PLANT OF OML 34 FOR ND WESTERN LTD TO…
Everyday we hear of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu wooing investors to Nigeria by hopping from country to country to justify his frequent foreign trips.
Few days ago Vice President Shettima attended a business summit in Sweden…
The President is A Sick Man
By Festus Adedayo
On April 4, 2021, I wrote a piece with the title The President is a sick man: Buhari’s Secret Therapy Inside the ‘Oneida.’ It was a lamentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s knee-jerk and off-the-cuff…
Beyond the horizon: Nigeria’s unwritten chapter
By abiodun KOMOLAFE
I fondly recall my time at Ijebu-Jesa Grammar School in Osun State, specifically from 1979/80 to 1982/83. This period stands out due to the Unity Party of Nigeria's (UPN) Free Education programme, spearheaded by the…
Nigeria’s Evolving Federalism and the Search for Sustainable Local Government Administration
By Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR
Governor, Anambra State
The Anambra State House of Assembly passed two progressive legislations pursuant to its powers under the Constitution (Anambra State Economic Planning and Development Law,…
Did A Ring Kill Ayinla Omowura?
By Festus Adedayo
Obviously, because I am the unauthorised biographer of Ayinla Omowura, the musical enfant terrible of Yorubaland of the 1970s, I have been inundated by requests to lend a voice to an ongoing debate which has…
Forgotten Protectors: Need for Police Pension Reform
By abiodun KOMOLAFE
The social contract theory posits that individuals surrender certain rights to the state in exchange for protection and security. Yet, Nigeria's police pension crisis raises a fundamental question about the…
Examining the President’s T-Pain alias
By Festus Adedayo
In Arabian folklore, the genie is a spirit depicted as being imprisoned inside a bottle or oil lamp. No matter how impregnable the walls of its captivity are, the moment it is summoned, the spirit comes out…
Adegboyega Oyetola: Reflections on Leadership and legacy
By abiodun KOMOLAFE
"And reckon (people) by the number of years, so that they may understand.” (Quran 18:19).
My first encounter with Adegboyega Oyetola, then Chief of Staff to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, occurred in…
Garlands for Mimiko and Farounbi
By Festus Adedayo
Within a week, two great Nigerians celebrated their birth anniversaries of 70 and 80 years respectively. They are, Olusegun Rahman Mimiko and Akinyemi Farounbi. While the former, a medical doctor-turned…