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Opeyemi Agbaje
The allies of Pharaoh
This season I restore a tradition that was strongly established in this column-to reflect on theological questions…
The Dapchi drama
Dapchi is a town in Yobe State, North-East Nigeria, about 75 kilometres south of the Niger Republic border. On 19th…
Anonymous herdsmen
On February 18, 1977 just over 41 years and a month to this day, about a thousand soldiers attacked Fela…
Oil-fueled recovery broadens; Risks remain
Nigeria’s economy grew by 0.83% in 2017 according to recently-released figures from the National Bureau of…
Evil of the Year 2017
There were a few good things that happened in or to Nigeria in 2017. Our national football team, the Super Eagles…
The imperative of restructuring and federalism in…
Nigeria’s current political and constitutional status quo is clearly and evidently unsustainable and the cries of…
Nigerian federalism was neither accidental nor arbitrary
Nigeria’s adoption of federalism in the run-up to our independence in 1960 was not an accidental or arbitrary…
The historical Yoruba nation
Reverend Samuel Johnson completed the writing of his pioneering book on Yoruba history in 1897, even though due to…
The Obasanjo letter
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo issued a “special press statement” on January 23rd 2018 directed at President…
What is changing at First Bank?
The share price of First Bank has tripled over the last few months, a development that led me to wonder whether…
Evil of the Year 2017
There were a few good things that happened in or to Nigeria in 2017. Our national football team, the Super Eagles…
Nigeria in 2018
Nigeria’s economic trajectory in 2018 is fairly predictable-after exiting recession in Q2 2017 with revised growth…