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This write up might as well have been titled; how not to defend defamation, after all, the sheer weight of...

“So far, the President and his people have only been personalizing the issues.” I have heard the legend of the...

When I was elected secretary-general of the students union at the University of Benin in 1987, I headed a secretarial...

‘The military will do itself some measure of good if it can conduct a thorough investigation into both the December...

It took a political storm like the one released from Ota farm by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to displace the...

Like Mandela, Robert Mugabe became Zimbabwe’s first black African president. But unlike Mandela, Mugabe has refused to relinquish power. As...

This country is in dire need of leaders with moral courage. At the root of good leadership is the critical...

The weekly British magazine, THE ECONOMIST has good tidings for Nigeria in 2014.The magazine wrote under the title, DIGGING DEEPER...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday categorized former president Olusegun Obasanjo among those he called “spineless cowards” driven by “sheer greed...

I am one of many who hoped to meet Nelson Mandela in person someday. I am one of millions of...

Since Premium Times broke the story of General Obasanjo’s letter to President Jonathan, a debate has been raging on his...

In a meeting last week with personnel from one of the bigger investment banking outfits operating out of the United...

The growing repression of citizen reporters and advocates that challenge the never-seen-before levels of corruption and political under-performance going in...

“Conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it”-Uthman Dan Fodio Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, Mohammed Junaid, and Hamzat Al-Mustapha do...

The Lord Himself said ''I shall build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail''. Nothing gives the believer...

Imputed righteousness is a complete waste of time. It does not impede sinfulness and it does not promote righteousness. Christians...

Lynching or mobbing is a frequent activity in the Nigerian society. A lot of jobless people find it as a...

Aso Rock Villa. Yoruba music-themed day in one of the expansive presidential reception rooms. Ebenezer Obey is crooning from a...

Olusegun Obasanjo’s damning letter to President Goodluck Jonathan must rank as the most narcissistic (and the narcissism of our rulers...

A guy in the train on the way to the Mandela memorial service in Soweto says he is bitter.  “Yes,...

Obasanjo should also take blame for Jonathan presidency. I am not a fan of Olusegun Obasanjo but I have read...

Human Rights Day coincides with the end of the 16 Days of Activism on Violence against Women. It’s the day...

There is a bullet in my leg, but there is nothing wrong with my leg. Twenty years ago, on 26th...

Dear Mr. President, A letter of appeal to President Goodluck Jonathan by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo I am constrained to make...

‘The metamorphosis and trajectory of Mandela’s life is surely a lesson for those who lead or those who aspire to...