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By Steve Nwosu Under normal Nigerian circumstances, Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), should be embattled by now. Other things being equal, he should be…

By FEMI ADESINA Nigeria is 61 years old as an Independent country. And so what? What’s the big deal about it? That is what some people will say, arguing that all we have seen is flag independence, and no true emancipation for the…

By Steve Nwosu For some inexplicable reason, every time I hear the name Emefiele, my treacherous mind immediately begins to scroll back this photo (below). Somebody told me it was taken several moons ago, when Central Bank Governor…

By Rose MOSES An Ogoni man from Rivers State, it would appear, was recently used to attack the governors of Rivers and Lagos states because of the ongoing cause célèbre over who should keep Value Added Tax (VAT) proceeds. The Federal…

By Steve Nwosu There are many reasons why I'll not be forgetting Governor Gboyega Oyetola's Osun State in a hurry. And it is not just because His Excellency invited me for the state's 30th anniversary colloquium. Nor that Yours…

By FEMI ADESINA For those who believe in the ineluctable victory of good over evil, no matter how long it takes, this has been an inspiring week. From the forests of a thousand daemons in Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger States, among others,…

By Rose MOSES Among the popular Nigerian jokes these days is, “What politicians cannot destroy does not exist.” Those bandying this joke are wont to ask you how else to explain that a country so naturally endowed like Nigeria can be led…

By FEMI ADESINA The news came like a thundering typhoon last week. For the first time in its 44 years history, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had made a profit. Net profit after tax stood at N287 billion in Year…

By Rose MOSES When the Nigerian viewer audience has become sick and tired of terrestrial television due to the daily harvests of local tragedies that tend to dominate the space, the unveiling, by Globacom, of Glo TV couldn’t have come at…

By Rose MOSES Since August 15, 2021, when the Taliban, the counterpart of Nigeria's homegrown Boko Haram militants, took power in faraway Afghanistan, it would seem most Nigerians have, outside of the now showing Big Brother Naija…