Oriire and the courage to reject compromise, by Rotimi Fasan
After 56 harrowing days, the 44 abductees in the Oriire community of Ogbomoso LGA are now out of the forest. These are schoolchildren and their teachers. Two of the teachers had been killed after the abduction while another was killed on their school ground. A commercial bike rider was also killed as the abduction unfolded. But […]
Echoes of another barrack revolt
Any intervention by the military now would be seen as a ploy of the north to hold on to power in the absence of Buhari
A needless controversy
Let’s not gratify the greed of those learned crooks feeding fat off the nightmare that is Nigeria’s democratic practice
Bring home all the girls
It’s shocking that after all they have seemingly done downgrading the capacity of the insurgents for further terror, 82 girls can still be brought out of that place of horror. Where were they being kept?
America, Britain, Goodluck Jonathan and the 2015 election
THIS month, precisely the 29th day, makes it exactly two full years to the day the present administration was inaugurated. That single event was preceded by the rather (in our parts of the world) unprecedented feat of the defeat of an incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan.
‘Who is the presidency?’
LAST week the Muhammadu Buhari administration took a major step in shaking off the odour of corruption that has been swirling around it since Babachir Lawal, erstwhile Secretary to the Government of the Federation, was implicated in a scandal surrounding the award of grass cutting contract in the Internally Displaced Persons’ camp.
