50 Years of General Gowon’s Overthrow, a Hindsight by Eric Teniola
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 will be the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon, GCFR. He was overthrown ...
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Mishap in the Niger Delta, OPINION By Eric Teniola
In 2015, my friend, a retired federal Permanent Secretary, Dr. Goke Adegoroye from Akure Oloyemekun in Ondo state wrote ...
OPINION | Impact of the Exit of National Economic Intelligence Committee, By Eric Teniola | METROWATCH
During the era of General Sani Abacha GCFR (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998), there was the National Economic ...
TRIBUTE | Who Else But Prof Ben Nwabueze (1931 – 2023), By Eric Teniola | METROWATCH
In 1975, Brigadier General Murtala Mohammed GCFR (8 November 1938 – 13 February 1976), approached Chief Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams ...
OPINION | Single Party Structure Won’t Work, Eric Teniola | METROWATCH
I don’t think the founding fathers of this country wanted a single party structure. Not at all. They were aware ...
OPINION | The Villa Makes it Easy to Get Lost, By Eric Teniola | METROWATCH
When General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida GCFR (82) moved the seat of the central government from Lagos to Abuja on December ...
OPINION | We Have a Choice on Liberal Democracy, By Eric Teniola | METROWATCH
The ex Governor of Ekiti state, Dr. John Oluwakayode Fayemi (58), CON, from Isan Ekiti has admitted what we knew ...
TRIBUTE | General Aliyu Gusau at 80, By Eric Teniola | METROWATCH
On Thursday May 18, General Aliyu Gusau (rtd) CFR will be eighty. If you call him General Aliyu Mohammed ...
INSIGHT | How Petroleum Ministry Came under the Presidency, By Eric Teniola | METROWATCH
Of all appointments to be made by the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, none will define his presidency, than the ...
Insight by Eric Teniola — Undeserved Assault on the Bureaucracy
Of all the mistakes made by the military, none is greater than the 1975/1976 assault on bureaucracy in ...
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