At the just ended retreat for his ministers at which they reviewed their first year performances, President Muhammadu Buhari was upbeat that his administration has shown...
Terwase Akwaza, better known as Gana, was a notoriously dangerous political thug turned armed robber in Benue State. He was said to be a dare-devil bandit...
Nothing puts greater timbre on the parlous state of security in the country than the denudation of the virtual hedges and moats around the Federal Capital...
The poor in Nigeria are continually stripped of subsidies that subside the existential hurt that comes with living in the poverty capital of the world. Petrol...
2023 is still a long time away from now. Three years could be long in politics yet too short for political strategising and re-strategising towards a...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) subsists on lies and deceit, like its twin the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the party told a fundamental truth on...
In trying to justify Buhari’s latest callous hike in the price of petrol (amid a pandemic, no less), Buhari’s supporters increasingly sound like noisome idiots straining...
“What is good for Babangida, Atiku, Marwa and the two northern governors and their South-South counterpart ought to be good for any Igbo aspirant if we...
“So this is how we will just adjust to the new fuel price at the petrol stations, and government will get away with the imposition of...
The way one could come to the reality that a system is in its last days is by the observable covert or overt commissions and or...
We have to face up to the truth; the truth about Christian fundamentalism. The church today has been sculpted in the image of extremists and demagogues...
Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, the former Governor of Edo State, ex-labour union leader and the immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)...
Just yesterday – March 10, 2010 – Nigerians bent the capricious hand of kismet; they rose against the pirating of the presidency. Nigerian libertarians, in their...
One of the very features of democracy is the freedom to debate and, if you may, hold opinions. Debates are integral parts of the course to...
The former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK) could be described as a glorified social critic who thinks that the rest of us owe him the entitlement...
The Buhari administration has ruptured the ceiling of liberties it enjoys. Like King Solomon in his last uneventful years, the government has compounded the yoke of...
You cannot begin to imagine my excitement. Not understanding the very deep issues involved in this tangle, the shallow-minded chapters of the almost moribund NUJ in...
The renewed interest in the crisis that continues to rock Southern Kaduna would be helpful if it produces a genuine effort at resolving the problem and...
The so-called Igbo struggle is an enterprise. Individuals from the south-east, who find themselves in position of political influence, hawk the ‘’Igbo agitation’’ as merchandise in...
Last Sunday in Emene, Enugu State, a massacre on a small scale of unarmed members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) took place tragically. According...
I have been in close contact with Chief Fani Kayode for some time now. He is a regular reader of my column and we discuss these...
Thursday, August 13 2020: Under the dying embers of a setting sun and in the solemn assembly for a burial ceremony in Ewu town, Esanland in...
The former Imo State Governor, Ikedi Ohakim, is in the news for wrong reasons lately. According to reports online Ohakim and his estranged mistress, one Chinyere...
Femi Fani-Kayode makes conceit solemn. He is the sui generis of narcissism. His arrogance dovetails with his foul temper and cutting tongue. There is no shade...
I admire Nasir el-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State for his intellectual abilities and what he has been able to achieve within the public space, but...
At the inception, the introduction of N-Power scheme stands out as one of the best policies of the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari with a...
There is significant verbiage but little illumination out there about the trending disputation concerning the provisions of the 2020 Companies and Allied Matters Act on not-for-profits....
Violent crisis of ethnic and religious complexion does not just happen. It grows relentlessly like cancer and metastasises until irreversible fatality. Some of the bloodiest riots...
Is the church an enterprise? Yes. Is the church a place of spiritual alliance with the creator? Yes. Naturally, the church as an industry should be...
Prince Arthur Eze is a stupendously rich man said to be the richest man in Igboland. He is a mercurial political contractor cum oil magnate whose...
The amnesty granted to the “repentant Boko Haram members” under the disguise of “Operation Safe Corridor” amidst the atmosphere clouded with killings, bombing, malnutrition of victims...
“Sorry about your man” “Thank you” “You know I used to think that this COVID-19 thing is a kind of scientific joke, but now I am...
The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the last presidential poll,...
For decades, I had known him as a politician, businessman, and media entrepreneur. His reputation was as impressive as his height. But my first close contact...
This it! The Whole world is going crazy and you need to prepare yourself to go through incredible tough times for a long time to come!...
Nigeria’s ministry of information used to be the preserve of processed, patriotic and disciplined minds. It used to be a place for rational public servants like...
Can you guess what these fallen big men of power had in common? CoS Abba Kyari, Dahiru Saleh, Abiola Ajimobi, Adebayo Osinowo and (now) Buruji Kashamu....
“In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. On the other side of the storm is the strength that comes from having...
For ten years, the Nigerian authorities have engaged the terror group Boko Haram in the northeast without making much headway. After what appeared to be some...
Olusegun Obasanjo is a defining personality in Nigeria’s politics. For decades he has hovered like a wraith over the political cumulus. He is one of the...
The life and history of the departed have lessons for those of us on this side of the veil. ‘Senator Esho Jinadu (Buruji Kashamu) in his...
“So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your...
Our society is one which diminishes the young. Being young is a capital offence in Nigeria. We take a loathing to the daring young. Confidence of...
What makes a revolution? Knowledge. Information. Awareness. Awakening. The biblical Moses was a prince in the ménage of the persecutors of the Hebrews – his people....
Praying for Nigeria’s redemption from its current woes is like asking God to prevent a building with defective foundation located in the Lekki area of Lagos...
Assistant Comptroller General of Customs (ACG) Bashir Abubakar has learnt in the hardest way that two rights can turn into a wrong. Just in 2018, the...
The Executive Governor of Ebonyi State in south-eastern Nigeria, David Umahi, is a gentleman who plays the politics of service to the people. Like the 36...
Mr Amaechi seems to be the poster boy for this Chinese loan that is causing so much furore in the land. They have said that we...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s omnipotent nephew, Mamman Daura, reputed to be one of the most influential persons in the corridors of power, spoke recently to the Hausa...
Assistant Comptroller General of Customs (ACG) Bashir Abubakar has learnt in the hardest way that two rights can turn into a wrong. Just in 2018, the...
