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Written by Festus Adedayo Last Friday, November 24, around 1pm, I was getting pleased with myself for having scaled the hurdle of yet another chapter in a school dissertation I was writing when my phone rang. Before then, I sat…

Written by abiodun KOMOLAFE It is a glorious thing to have a tested leader as the president of a country. It is also a blessing when the president means what he says and when what he says is not just believable but also…

The Nigerian Gas Company, NGC constitutes a bottleneck that must be quickly scrapped to salvage the gas industry in Nigeria. Whereas there are abundance of natural gas deposits in Nigeria to generate well over 200,000 megawatts…

Written By Festus Adedayo National Security Adviser, (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu, always wears a permanent visor of one who needs to be pitied. Last Monday, however, he advertised far more pity with his pithy speech. The venue was the…

Written by abiodun KOMOLAFE At a programme in honour of the reconstituted North-East Development Commission (NEDC) recently, Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, warned that Nigeria risked being wiped off the map in the…

Written by abiodun KOMOLAFE If we go back to the history of Nigeria, the truth is: dear fatherland has learnt nothing. In the days of Obafemi Awolowo and Ladoke Akintola, this was how they started inventing stuff that had never…

Written by Festus Adedayo When a child pours libation and gives iba (respect) to the shade of the farm, our elders say he will till the land till evening in comfort. I owe the inspiration to write this piece to one of the few…

Africa and Nigeria don't need beggarly handouts from Western countries/US to survive. For me, the West/US feed on the non-advanced countries of Africa right from the onset. They forcefully took away black Africans to build…

Written by Festus Adedayo Apologia: Though the most trending issue at present is the yacht yaks, my offering today will not dwell on it. Nor will I want to talk about the army of deliberately befuddling narratives on the yacht…

He asked, "Is this craziness for show of legislative force or legislative corruption? How dare federal lawmakers appropriate to selves such new cars, at such outrageous cost for that matter? "Is it not shameful for them to have…