Voices of history 2: Corruption is good, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 Corruption has held this country in thrall for a very long time. No other national affliction comes even close. I am fascinated […]
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Sir Ahmadu Bello’s dreams and our current nightmare
By Dan Agbese Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 In his autobiography, My Life, published in 1962, the late premier of the Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardaunan Sokoto, wrote: “They […]
The north must let go in 2023, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The 2023 general election season is now upon us. The politicians and their parties are working out the maths of winning or […]
We walk. And we limp (1) By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 Nigeria’s capacity for self-sabotage is legendary. It has sabotaged its rise to greatness and thus remains stuck in the murk of its […]
For our sake, they seek our mandate, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The arena is crowded with presidential aspirants, all in pursuit of what matters most in life – political power. We expected it. […]
The wahala in a fluid political system, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The two major political parties, PDP and APC, are engaged in a titanic struggle to prevent their implosion over the lingering and […]
Abandoned promises (2): in search of the 40,000mw, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 Man may not live by bread alone, but he must live on the promises of his political leaders. A promise is about […]
Buhari’s missed path to getting our education right (2) By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 At the special retreat for the executive council of the federation under reference, the minister of education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, made at […]
Buhari’s missed path to getting our education right (1) By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The current ASUU strike is as good a time as any for the nation to pause, even if briefly, from the madness […]
The moral imperatives of political leadership, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] Justice Inyang Ekwo of an Abuja federal high court, defrocked David Umahi and his deputy, Kelechi Igwe, as governor and deputy governor respectively, of […]
Searching for Godot, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The Irish novelist and playwright, Samuel Beckett, published his now famous play Waiting for Godot, to an initial indifferent review in the early […]
A peep into Buhari’s legacy
By Dan Agbese Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will be a very lucky man. He will not have […]
Voices of history (1) By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 I have argued a zillion times in this column that the absence of an ideology in our political parties continues to cast […]
How not to move the nation forward, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 I took a walk through my columns for this newspaper the other day and found this. Sometime in 2016, President Obasanjo spoke […]
The PDP mission to Abeokuta,By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The report I read of the visit by PDP leaders led by their new national chairman, the savvy, quiet and effective political […]
The longest unwinnable war, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 Fifty-five years ago, as of this January 15, the late Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, told us that the ten per centers made […]
The men who talk to the gods, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 Pastor Enoch Adeboye, general overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, said early in the week that God had not told him who […]
As tomorrow cometh, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 It is the time of the year we are immersed in the ritual of the momentous change in the calendar. One year […]
Again, the triumph of selfish politics, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The discerning knew it would come to these: that the electoral act bill sent to President Buhari for his assent on which […]
The rebirth of the Naval Dockyard, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 It shone a bright light through the darkening gloom in a nation that appears to have domesticated bad news. I am talking […]
The ban by UK and Canada, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The United Kingdom and Canada have incurred the wrath of the Nigerian government and the people, as indeed they should – and […]
The World Bank’s bad news about our economy, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The bad news is that our national economy remains stubbornly defiant. Past and present efforts to solve its inherent historical problems and […]
The #EndSARS panel report, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 I bet I was not the only one who feared that the work of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry on […]
People versus politicians, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The nation heaved a sigh of great relief. We expected the worst in the Anambra State governorship election on November 6 but […]
The press matters: tribute to the Nobel Peace Laureates, By Dan Agbese
Email: [email protected] SMS: 08055001912 The Norwegian Nobel Committee did something almost unthinkable on October 8 when it awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists: […]