Of all the updates that have been given so far by the Lagos State authorities on the government’s efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, and...
The former Governor of Edo State and current National Chairman of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, is a dimunitive...
It seems the cloud of litigation, protest and prayers over the atmosphere of Imo State Governorship Election has finally subsided with the supreme Court verdict on...
This piece is a compilation of variety of quotes about Nigeria. They were put together by members of Oòduà Foundation in the United States. The quotes...
Rumours are rumours! But, if, indeed, there is any substance or element of truth in the rumoured presidential ambition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then, he will...
It is difficult to accurately describe the present state of insecurity in Nigeria. What is happening in Nigeria now is like a horror story set in...
While Nigerians continue to endure the pains of economic quagmire, security breakdown, subversion of majority will on the ground of technicality at the alter of the...
Prior to the re-emergence of democracy in Nigeria in May,1999, political pundits specifically blamed the socioeconomic and political instability on the military. Specifically, while many at...
Last monday President Muhammadu Buhari held a closed-door meeting with the embattled Service Chiefs inside the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja. All the security heads were...
It was robustly announced that an Italian suspected to be a carrier of the dreaded Coronavirus had been quarantined. The Lagos State Government, through its Commissioner...
The first case of Coronavirus in Nigeria was brought in by an Italian citizen. The test was confirmed by Lagos University Teaching Hospital Virology Laboratory Dept....
On December 14, 2016, the senate asked Babachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), to immediately resign from office. This followed the recommendation...
The National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs) created by the Federal Government in 2016 for poverty reduction is gradually becoming poverty creation platform as the beneficiaries continue...
As I said in a column in June 2019, security is everybody’s business. No individual, group, institution or organisation is nugatory in matters of security. All...
Deontay Wilder’s reason for losing to Tyson Fury is a common thing among professionals. Some of us may laugh at it, but it actually happens to...
John wooden once said, ” you are not a failure until you begin to blame others for your mistakes.” This seems to be the narrative in...
His Royal Majesty, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, is a statesman who is not given to garrulity or hubris. He seldom speaks publicly...
Over the weekend, the Yoruba community in the South Western part of Nigeria was treated to the shocking news of a fight that broke out between...
The columnist is a rare breed. First, he is in the minority and extremely few people have the luxury of a platform to sermonise regularly on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is as flawed as Ibrahim Magu, its acting chairman, who has revised the agency to a personality cult. The...
Last weekend love was generously in the air! Every 14th of February ‘lovers’ (real and unreal) around the world celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, an amorous event...
Nearly a month after the Supreme Court gave an unprecedented judgment on Imo State Governorship election by sacking Emeka Ihedioha from the State House, another dramatic...
Abraham Lincoln described democracy as “government of the people, by the people, for the people” during the American civil war in 1863. His notion later became...
When 2023 comes, the truth shall be known by all and sundry. They shall know the truth and the truth shall set them free. My true...
Apart from the numerous airstrips built mainly by the Nigerian military and multinational oil companies, Nigeria has 31 airports out of which only 5 are functional...
Universities must not be turned into business centers to generate profit alone, but can also be of value beyond academics to their communities. Unfortunately, these days...
This month marks 172 years since the first publication of the Communist Manifest. All around the world people will be commemorating February 20th with group read-alouds,...
Whenever the news of the activities of Boko Haram surface what usually comes to mind is the promises made by President Mohammed Buhari on security, economy...
My theory. Boko Haram is an enterprise. The wheel of the war must be kept spinning for the profiteers and racketeers of blood. The insurgency has...
The biggest threat to our collective humanity today is not the suspected threat of a Third World War, but a corrosive, debilitating, murderous pathogen known as...
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is a federal parliamentarian representing Abia-South Senatorial District of Abia State at the upper legislative Chamber in Abuja. He came to national limelight...
Have you watched the video clips of the gruesome execution of Lawan Andimi and Roypvil Dalyep by Boko Haram? Have you ever imagined what it feels like to take one’s loved ones away with hopes...
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.” – Buddha “Lies never last, History never dies, and the TRUTH is always...
How hard is it to believe that in this day and age Africans are still looking at foreign visas and Investments to save them from themselves...
A study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) put the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria to 13.5 million – as of 2018. An unimpressive...
Well before the Yorùbá people and their leaders sprang the surprise of their Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Àmòtékùn, one has been living with it in...
In Athens, 510 BC, Cleisthenes instituted democracy to foster greater: accountability of institutions and leaders to citizens and the law. Today, the tenet is being flouted...
Since the Second Intifada in 2000, the Israelis have been steadily moving to the right-of-center. Successive Israeli governments have made national security central to Israel’s very...
The scale of bandit enterprise is much more petrifying with the incursive attacks of criminal gangs in the federal capital territory (FCT) – the province from...
Sixteen years ago, precisely on Friday, December 3, 2004, at the Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos, I listened with real curiosity to the current Cordinator,...
At every election year, Nigerians are usually inordinate with all manners of promises by those seeking one elective position and the other. During this period those...
He is a man that is very gifted. No doubt about it at all. The seminality of his brilliance is unquestionable. His brilliance glows like a...
Where is the map of Biafra? This is the question I have often asked the promoters and sympathizers of the Biafra cause, and up till this...
The spate of insecurity bedeviling Nigeria has continued unabated because of stark hypocrisy within the political class. Consider, for instance, the recent speech by Enyinnaya Abaribe,...
I listened very carefully to Jimi Disu this morning on radio on the recent ban on Okada and Keke Marwa with disgust. I am sorry to...
ON January 24, at the Federal High Court in Ilorin sitting over the matter of Asa Investment vs. Attorney General of Kwara State, counsel representing the...
I hope it would not amount to ‘Hate Speech’ to make some confessions, especially, with a particular reference to Nigeria’s sociopolitical landscape. First and foremost, let’s...
Senator Hope Uzodinma is about the happiest politician in Nigeria today. Not a few political animals in the declining ‘Naira-land’ would feel ecstatic (nay euphoric) were...
African sojourns to western countries are being curtailed for fear of overwhelming their hosts with the “disease” of explosive population since many countries overstayed their visa...
Recently, I met with a group of officials from different countries who came to the US to learn about our political system and the decision-making process...
