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Obaro Of Kabba: A Graceful And Consummate Monarch Goes Home

Words were insufficient to capture the breadth of my thoughts when I heard with profound grief, great consternation, shock and pain the news of the passage to eternal...

Memo To Governor Yahaya Bello: Unpaid Salaries Sending Kogi Workers To Early Graves

Your excellency, the executive governor of Kogi State, several months of unpaid salaries in the state have turned tragic, as workers across the state increasingly live...

Birthday Tribute To Engr Olushola George Olumoroti At 50

It has taken some time for me to distill my thoughts and pen my tribute to the man of the people, Engineer Olushola George Olumoroti (OGO). Though words are insufficient...

Opinion: FG, Cut Legislators’ Jumbo Pay In These Austere Times by Balogun Emmanuel

Apart from the issue of fuel scarcity and increase in Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as Petrol, no other subject in recent times has enraged and infuriated...

Retrenchment In The Guise Of ‘Ghost Workers’ In Kogi Is Malicious by Emmanuel Balogun

The civil service is the engine of the government in whatever form of government in existence in any country. If this is how the civil service is held in high esteem, it...

The Gospel Of Change: 12 Months After by Emmanuel Balogun

One year after the unprecedented swearing-in of the change crusader, President Muhammadu Buhari which saw Nigerians replace one president and government with another,...

Fulani Herdsmen: The rampaging, Justice for Farmers and Towards Healing the Wounds of Nigerians by Emmanuel Balogun

Nigeria has a nation has been grappling with numerous social ills for a long time, these ills, no doubt, portends an unpleasant future for the country. It is no longer...

Governor Yahaya Bello’s Tenancy in Lugard House and 100 Days of #NoDirection

On May 6, 2016 this government will celebrate one hundred days in Office, yet the story has remained the same since January 27, 2016 when political power changed hands....

If Senator Dino Melaye Will Hear…

In campaign seasons, we the people are harassed for support and pursued for votes. Politicians twist our arms and tell us lies mixed with half truth. They entice some...

Hon Teejay Yusuf: A Political Icon and True Democrat by Balogun Emmanuel

Once in a generation, history throws up rare leaders with great attitude and a first class mind. Hon TJ,  as he is fondly called, is one such leader. As a young man, he...