Dear Sir, I tried getting in touch with you through your email address at my disposal and also through [email protected], but it seems as if I...
On December 12, 2013, I woke up to Olusegun Obasanjo’s ‘Before it is too late’; a caustic letter to former President Goodluck Jonathan. In the 18-page...
Limiting global warming to below two degrees will be the focus of the World Climate Conference to be held in Madrid from 2 to 13 December...
First Osun. Then Kano. Now Kogi and Bayelsa states. The spate of violence during election brings doubt on Nigeria’s ability to get it right. Unlike other...
Enoch Powell was a great British Parliamentarian, a scholar and a writer who developed the maxim; ‘All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream...
You know when we were little kids they used to tell us about the Phoenix that would rise up from the flames of its demise. This...
The 2007 general election conducted by INEC under the supervision of Maurice Iwu is, perhaps, one of the most fraudulent in Nigeria’s electoral history. Human Rights...
Going by the wisdom of the sage, great leaders are characterized by their ability to create positive impacts on the lives of their subjects. They achieve...
So I watch the video where he stands with a large wad of Naira notes claiming he was given the funds at gun point and wanting...
Democracy is earning the power to govern through free, fair and credible elections. Nigeria is a democratic state, but the leadership recruitment process is largely undemocratic....
The senate marshalled by Ahmad Lawan has been convincing in confirming the stereotypes and assumptions about the institution. In July, I wrote about Lawan’s obsequiousness and...
“The overall situation that I encountered in Nigeria gives rise to extreme concern. By many measures, the Federal authorities and the international partners are presiding over...
Where the media are free, the market place of ideas sorts the irresponsible from the responsible and rewards the later——-Anonymous For media practitioners, oddities -particularly, human...
He has just dropped a whooping large cheque. The largest single individual donation in the history of the country, if not Africa. N5billion was what the...
Watch out for those pushing Amoda Yekini Ogunlere alias Ahmed Tinubu as the next President of Nigeria. While his ethic group, Yoruba may love him as...
With about nine months after the 2019 Presidential, Governorship, National and state houses of Assembly elections held in the country- a period long enough to complete...
Trump’s inviting of Turkey’s President Erdogan to Washington comes at a peculiar time when the House of Representatives is pursuing the impeachment inquiry against Trump and...
Shakespearean Femi Adesina A fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. (William Shakespeare, As you like it)...
After the Supreme Court threw out the legal challenge by Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on the February 2019 presidential poll last week,...
‘’But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also’’ –...
For the second time in his 8th year rein as the President of Nigeria, President Muhammed Buhari has jetted out of the country to UK on...
You know with the advancement in culture and systems, we are now a society on the go. Everything has to be fast and quick because there...
Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption crusader and a presidential candidate in the country’s 2019 election, Omoyele Sowore, who is being detained by state authorities on trumped-up charges, may...
To the vast majority of members of his Latter Rain Assembly and a number of members of his captive audience outside his church, Pastor Tunde Bakare,...
Sequel to the heights of the assaults on the lives and properties of Nigerians as well as other Africans by the South African xenophobes, many analysts...
When Nigeria became the 53rd signatory to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) on 7 July, it was an important step in a long-heralded but...
Since Nigeria’s return to civilian rule in 1999, Deputy Governors have always tended to have issues with their bosses, that is the Governors, and the Governors...
The 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II recently told a moving story of how a mother watched her sick child die while waiting to ask...
No event in recent history about the Niger Delta have elicited controversy or gained media attention like the current order by President Muhammadu Buhari calling for...
Chief Dele Momodu is a fine writer. I simply love his prose and the beauty of the flow in his writings but it ends there for...
If the time-honoured aphorism which considers education as the bedrock of development is anything to go by and if the age-long believe that; with sound educational...
A few week ago, I had an opportunity to meet with six members of the Yazidi community, including journalists and activists. I must admit that although...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘’rice revolution’’ is laudable. Before the ‘’crop rebellion’’, Nigeria spent about $1.65 billion annually importing rice from Thailand and India. But the country...
‘m one of the millions of Nigerians who follow and admire Reno Omokri not because he finds ways to expose and push back the lies and...
Who will rescue Nigeria from the clutch of ethnic venom that is gradually but steadily being secreted by ethnic nationalists through their actions and behavioral disposition?...
I woke up this morning with a strong urge to write this article. But as I opened the system I ran out of gas. Nothing was...
It is common knowledge that the Federal Government on August 20th, 2019, ordered the closure of Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic, citing massive smuggling activities taking...
The economic situation we find ourselves today is dire. Unemployment ramping up with an estimated three million people losing their jobs since the advent of this...
I have always assumed that ‘’the cabal’’ or the kitchen cabinet in any administration exists at the pleasure of the president or the leadership; hence members...
For a nation to develop rapidly, its citizens must learn the act of questioning settled political answers and demand answers to unsettled political questions-analyzing both formal...
One man can induce rippling change in a system. One man can stop illegal detention, arrests, and govern the impulse to clamp down on free speech...
The dust seems to be settling. Those allegedly indicted are being dealt with by their various institutions and Nigerians as usual have started going back to...
The flatulent size of the national assembly accents the orthodoxies and paradoxes of Nigeria. Nigeria’s lawmakers are some of the highest paid in the world, in...
The recent harassment or detention of human rights activist, Dr. Chido Onumah, by state agents is not only a sign that Nigeria is drifting towards full-blown...
A peep into the history of attempts seeking regulation of non-profitable organizations (NPOs) in Nigeria will reveal that no bill has ever received the level of...
Let me start by saying that I am the butt of attack from my very good friends because of a broadcast I sent out following the...
Most Africans that have not traveled or lived in foreign countries think once we get out, fertile enabling environment where our potentials will be appreciated and...
On the 16th of September, 2019, Nigerians woke up to the news about the appointment of an Economic Advisory Council by the President which is to...
It is a time-honoured suggestion that during a period of rapid economic growth, nations, as well as corporate organizations, must continue investing even though it may...
One event in recent history that typifies the nations’ education sector as an area in need of help is the ripple reaction that trailed the enrolment...
