Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN)
A few weeks back, I sat down listening to an elder statesman, an experienced Learned Senior Counsel and one who should truly know, campaigning for the return of the military in the affairs and government of Nigeria.
By Eze Jude . O
Your Eminences, Your Graces, Your Lordships,
It is with utmost regards to your highly placed ecclesiastical offices that I, a humble lay faithful of your flock put forward this piece in 'fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12).
By Ike Abonyi
"...Presidential politics has become a game of inches." - Steven Weber
In the 1980s when coups d'état were commonplace, once the rumour thickened, something would happen...either as a failed, successful or palace coup.
All that military officers were doing then was to position themselves to a time when a sitting government lost grip or when their popularity waned. Then they would strike. Often a bad situation in the polity was manipulated to enable action.
By Amb (Dr) Godknows Igali
In William Shakespeare's classic Julius Caesar, the chief protagonist, a Roman statesman and general boasted deafeningly to his wife Calpurnia and by extension to Cassius and Pompey, the other power brokers with whom he formed a triumvirate that "Of all the wonders that I have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary end, will come when it will come". So do society view the rather dreary phenomenon called death. But whenever it occurs, either for the youngest or oldest, all express a great "aww", instinctively.
By Eze Jude .O
By the reckoning of James Freeman Clarke: "A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. A statesman wishes to steer, while a politician is satisfied to drift."
By Sylvester Asoya
In Nigeria and other parts of Africa, Sweet Mother is regarded by many people as Africa’s sacred song. But there are also others who see this outstanding musical composition as the continent’s ultimate hymn of praise and reverence.
