Category: Opinion

By Bayo Oluwasanmi Professor Banji Akintoye, the renowned historian and leader of the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement, Ilana Omo Oodua, in his letter to General Muhammadu Buhari, offers a new version of the Exodus story, the Bible’s most enduring political narrative. Faced with institutional, cultural, economic, social, and political persecution and oppression, the Emeritus Professor Akintoye, laid out in eloquent narrative […]

By Bernard Okri We are living in interesting times in Nigeria. Issues of public discourse never cease to amaze one in this country. When you think that you have seen and heard it all, something risible would just pop up like a bolt out of the blues to add to the dramatic turn of events that are unfolding all around […]

Professor Banji Akintoye, says the Yoruba ethnic group is in dire need of its own country outside of present Nigeria. Renowned historian and leader of the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Movement, Ilana Omo Oodua, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye, says the Yoruba ethnic group is in dire need of its own country out of present Nigeria. Akintoye disclosed this in […]

By Adamu Abubakar Kumo In fulfilment of the promise he made upon assumption of Office to revitalize land administration in Gombe State, in June 2020, His Excellency, Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya appointed Dr Kabiru Usman Hassan, as a Pioneer Director General of Gombe Geographic Information Systems (GOGIS), an agency saddled with the mandate for the administration and management of land […]

By Bayo Oluwasanmi Dumb Nigerians are banking their last hope on the 2023 presidential election. Nigerian politicians are idiots. Nigeria is afflicted with them. Saying unintelligent things or acting stupid or insane will not be a barrier to electing another clueless, lifeless idiot as president. Logically, honest and sane Nigerians want intelligent, honest, capable, experienced, savvy, intellectual powerhouse candidates with […]

By Nathaniel Ikyur In a well-crafted editorial comment on August 9, 2022, the influential Guardian newspaper reminded the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, of one of its numerous (and mostly unfulfilled) election campaign promises in 2015. The party had loosely promised to “establish a well-trained, adequately equipped and goals-driven Serious Crime Squad to combat terrorism, kidnapping, armed robbery, militants, ethno-religious […]

By Godwin Onyeacholem To say it wasn’t foreseen would be for one an absurd indulgence in self-denial. Last month’s compulsory retirement of Captain Emmanuel Ekpe Owen of the Nigerian Navy marked yet another act of horrendous injustice that has become more of a permanent feature in both public and private sector governance in the country. The wicked behaviour manifests in […]

By A. A. Kumo As waves of defections continue to rock Gombe PDP from left right and center, the party has been undoubtedly thrown into the pool of uncertainty and pandemonium. The Kaltungo Mass Defections, which involves both the leadership and followership of the party and the subsequent defections from nooks and crannies of the state from the PDP to […]

Within about 26 years of its creation, the Gombe state has witnessed different regimes. But of all of them, the present administration under Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya is the cream of the crop due to some compelling facts which make its performance unique in the quest for the development of Gombe State. 1. It is the only Government in the […]