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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…

By FEMI ADESINA The country has been agog this week with fallout from the signing of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. That legislation has now become Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). President Muhammadu Buhari has…

By Rose MOSES If the present federal government were able to do so, it could have you not just pay for, but also add premium tax on the air you breathe. Afterwards, the government would possibly blame it on the so-called mess caused by…

By Rose MOSES President Muhammadu Buhari can be likened to teenage Emperor Nero who, according to a Roman legend, set the city of Rome ablaze and stood aside to watch and play his fiddle while the great city burned. Or how else would…

By Steve Nwosu  A friend of mine, with a very criminal sense of humour, told me last week that it's because embattled super cop Kyari has a very low criminal rating, that he was simply named "ABBA". This contrast sharply with his 'boy',…