The Nigerian government deregulated the downstream petroleum sector with effect from March 19, 2020. The key argument was that the fuel subsidy regime which gulps billions...
On January 22, 2015 at Chatham House, London, Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), baited the whirlwind. He said he had suggested to Attahiru Jega,...
_‘’ *_Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes clichéd. When talking about...
Any lingering doubt about the fact that President Muhammadu Buhari runs a brutal bloody regime must have dissipated lately with two major deadly events — one...
Recently I had an opportunity to brief a group of European diplomats and journalists on a variety of conflicts, with a focus on the Middle East....
One of the dominant features of the discourse in Imo State for the eight years Okorocha was Governor was land acquisition by the Government and top...
On Saturday, November 28, about 43 farmers who had gone to their farms during the current harvest season were attacked by Boko Haram terrorists. They were...
So, our master just got bail. He was remanded for standing surety for a man who had been accused of stealing our future. Here was a...
The last few weeks have seen a curious resurgence of the preposterous conspiracy theory that Muhammadu Buhari has been dead and that it’s his body double...
We saw how the revolution led by the late Jerry Rawlings in the early eighties cleaned up Ghana and made it the promising nation it is...
The hypocrite minimises his own flaws and makes allowances for imperfections while homing in on and exaggerating the problems of another. We have an even distribution...
Nigeria my beloved country, a country I can proudly call my own, a nation immensely blessed by God Almighty and naturally endowed with the best of...
Retired General Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) is in his fifth eventful years in Aso Rock Villa as the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He...
It is now as clear as day, Northern Nigeria has sunk steeply into the abyss of despair. The fright is glaring like a pray staring at...
The godfather of Lagos politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has always preached that his followers should not expect power to be served to them a la...
“My brother, how you dey?” “What can we do?” “E ku recession” “Excuse me?” “I said er ku recession…” “Are you Yoruba people alright at all?...
Flight-lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings is a household name in Ghana and even beyond her borders. He made history when in May 1979 as a radical military...
‘Why always Buhari?’ As it was in 1984 under General Buhari, so it is in 2016 and 2020 under President Buhari? Is it by the unfortunate...
Engineer David Nweze Umahi is the current executive Governor of Ebonyi State in south-eastern Nigeria. The 56-year old bespectacled quintessential gentleman is married to Rachel and...
Probe. This is another word for political manoeuvring, horse-trading, chicanery and blackmail – in the Nigerian milieu. Probes are launched here not for righteous ends but...
Daily we read of all sorts of feedback from the authorities. Among these are protesters being labelled terrorists, accounts frozen with support from the courts, detentions,...
Recently in Daudu town in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State a bizzare news item made the rounds globally online. For more than two weeks...
The greatest challenge to security in Nigeria is the age-long neglect of public schools, especially the State and Local Governments owned schools at the basic level;...
Prior to the controversial presidential poll of last November 3 this year in the United States of America one of the dramatic events that stunned not...
Bigotry. We are big on it. To inflame passions and to smoke out the most reticent of Nigerians, flagellate the tempers of religion and ethnicity. Yes,...
“For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has...
Social media is the interactive form of media that allow users interact with and publish to each other, generally by means of the Internet. A report...
Contrary to widely held view that core oil producing areas in the Niger Delta are benefiting from 13 percent derivation and the Niger Delta Development Commission...
The recent #ENDSARS protest by the youths threw up a number of issues in Nigeria. One of the issues on the front burner is that of...
Now, I really do like swimming against the tide. It is my forte. Most times, I do that not because I really believe in the position...
The most exhilarating part of the US Presidential election 2020 is the fact that President Trump lost the election. It is what many observers thought would...
The American presidential poll had come and gone with the emergence of winners and losers. The election had many unprecedented factors characterizing its occurence to wit:...
The November 3, 2020, presidential election was arguably the most important election in USA postwar history. In these elections, moreover, the participation of American voters was...
There is something about African leaders, Nigeria in particular and it is that they hide from their problems by making up imagined success if not. If...
She was my first love. My first choice when it all began. Of all the contestants that came out to run for the Presidency of the...
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian/American born in Ogwashi-Ukwu, Delta State, on the 13th of June, 1954. She had her secondary education at International School, Ibadan,...
No government is short of opposition. In a democracy, the residence of an animated opposition signals the buoyancy of the system. Where there is democracy, there...
Professor Mahmood Yakubu achieved a new national record when he received President Muhammadu Buhari’s endorsement for a second term as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral...
This year has presented challenges across the globe. The outbreak of COVID-19 being the major challenge. COVID-19 has been mentally stressful across the globe. On 11...
The #EndSARS protests which lasted for about two weeks until the crisis in Lagos on October 20, 2020, now known as the Black Tuesday in Nigeria’s...
With the announcement of Ambassador Ahmad Nuhu Bamalli on October 7 as new Emir of Zazzau within two weeks of the demise of the last one,...
Several controversies have traded the EndSARS protest which birthed looting, killings, destruction of properties and opened an unprecedented page in the annal of protests in Nigeria,...
The American presidential election is slated for November 3rd of this year, that is tomorrow. It is a straight fight between the Republican incumbent President, Donald...
Humanity is all inclusive. There are no higher or lesser humans. We all breathe the same air. Whether doctor, lawyer, journalist, police or soldier; we are...
There is no government presence in the federal capital territory (FCT). Yes. In fact, there is no such thing as leadership in the FCT. If there...
Fela’s kalakuta Republic had been burnt down. His wives had been raped, he was physically assaulted and bundled into jail. There was an outcry.How could soldiers...
Things went out of hand very quickly with the emerging Nigerian “revolution” when on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, soldiers stormed the Lekki Toll Gate Plaza in...
This is indeed a tumultuous period for our dear country, while we are struggling to wriggle out of negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic amidst dwindling...
Following the #EndSARS massive protests that rocked the nation Lagos witnessed days of rage, fire and fury of angry mobile young Nigerians. Youthful Nigerians, enraged by...
I heavily grieve for those who have lost their lives or been injured during the period of these protests. My deepest sympathies go to their families...
