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By Folabi Ogunleye
Well-oiled political machines have ensured that an election that should be decisive remains close. But Barack Obama stands a good chance of eking-out a victory today.
 I'll be surprised if United States President Barack Obama
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By Folabii Ogunleye
-Why Femi Fani-Kayode's fears are real – and baseless, if not outright irresponsible.
 FOR a lot of people, religious faith is a stabilizer. In a world full of intrigues and trials
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By Folabi Ogunleye
- The expression of shock and revulsion by Nigerians is annoyingly belated. For far too long, these brutal acts of mob justice had gone on almost everywhere in the country.
 THOSE four young victims of mob justice in Port Harcourt could easily have
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 WHEN it emerged on Monday that President Goodluck Jonathan will address Nigerians in a nationwide
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By Folabi Ogunleye | Sunday, July 22 2012
 AN odd newspaper report was published as front-page news by the Saturday edition of
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IT feels like one of those situations where one of your family’s much older relatives, refusing to let go of an elusive youth, keeps trying to be “yuppie” – to blend with you and your much younger peers.
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By Folabi Ogunleye
THE first thing I said to myself on reading about it was, “no way”.
Even kids know better. A friend’s 9-year old son is an example. He will never mention or refer to a previous ill-advised event or
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| Saturday, 31 March 2012 14:19 |
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| Big Country, Big Police
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UNITY and faith, peace and progress – so goes Nigeria’s official motto.
It appears, however, that the powers-that-be in Nigeria have taken a literal, if not absolutist, interpretation in their application of this expression which otherwise should simply engender a progressive union under a banner of social equality and justice.
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By Folabi Ogunleye | Sunday March 24, 2012
A FEW WEEKS AGO, Nigerians were mostly minding their business, striving to keep ahead of the rat race of a competitive world when the president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, grabbed a microphone
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| Saturday, 17 March 2012 20:01 |
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| I saw Game Change, Too!
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By Folabi Ogunleye | March 17, 2012.
ONE word best describes the movie I saw last night: powerful.
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By Folabi Ogunleye | January 10, 2012
FOR independence, we barely lifted a finger – at least not in the manner that others had to fight and die for freedom and nationhood. Instead, Nigerians had a seemingly independent Nigeria
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By Folabi Ogunleye
IN a live prime-time speech from Abuja on Saturday night, President Jonathan sought to woo Nigerians to his side in the petroleum subsidy debate. It is doubtful that he succeeded at wooing anyone.
Too little, too late.
That was what I thought
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Kadaria Ahmed's op-ed piece, published in the National Mirror newspaper last Friday, November the 11th, appears to be one of the few attempts by she and her Nigerian journalism contemporaries to scratch beneath the
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By Folabi Ogunleye
THE other day, Farida Waziri, the perennially bespectacled Chair of Nigeria’s popular anti-graft agency, announced through the agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, that three governors who served in the previous political
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