When in 1992, James Carville, Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist uttered the quip on television: “It’s the economy, stupid”, little could he have realized that he had...
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Tinubu’s Chicago blues and Nigeria’s shame By UGO ONUOHA THREE significant things happened in Nigeria and about Nigeria in the last 10 days. And many more...
Last Thursday, I was invited to review a book on Odia Ofeimun, one of Africa’s leading poets and public intellectuals, a committed, “empathetic scholar” as Professor...
Commerce Takes the Central Helm If you’re tuning into this, you’re likely aware of Yemi Cardoso becoming the new chief of the Central Bank of Nigeria...
Will I be telling the truth if I say that I never imagined that a season such as we are in today in Nigeria will not...
Beyond politics – Tinubu’s maiden trip to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Atiku Abubakar’s voyage of discovery for Tinubu’s academic records in the United States,...
Over the last four weeks there have been a tense situation within the African continent. First, in Niger, the Military leaders under its new ‘National Council...
NIGERIA’S current President, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, could, in the next four years or eight years or for as long or short as he lasts in...
Dear Mr. President, I extend my warmest greetings to you and hope this letter finds you in good spirit & health. It is with a sense...
For more than a week, President Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s chief foreign policy officer has been on a diplomatic offensive to New Delhi, on the sidelines of...
THERE are many implications in, and potential fall outs from, the judgment from the presidential election petition tribunal[PEPT] which was delivered one week ago, tomorrow. Virtually...
Nigeria’s unenviable trend of extra-judicial killings rather than rescind, appears on the rise with two reported mortalities in Lagos State alone within two weeks. The two...
During the campaigns for office, Governor Umo Eno (GUE) promised the Akwa Ibom people that his administration would as a must, “hit the ground running”, on his assumption as governor of the state. Therefore...
Perhaps you may have heard the rumors about how public universities in Nigeria intentionally grade their students poorly because of reasons such as: the need to...
Tomorrow, or so, will be 100 days since the installation of Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President of Nigeria. He has been like that proverbial...
Mohammed Bello Adoke, who turned 60 on September 1, 2023 served Nigeria as Attorney General and Minister of Justice, April 6, 2010- May 29, 2015. He...
ALL All Progressives Congress [APC] political party regimes rule by lies, subterfuge, propaganda, deception and much more. Check out the regime of the former President, Gen....
Yesterday, 45 Ministers took the oath of office as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria pursuant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu exercising executive powers as...
Governor Biodun Oyebanji is unassuming. Those who have had an encounter with him always leave wondering how his modest demeanor and approach haven’t been altered by...
“Bros, you dey town?” “Yes. Where you think say I for dey. I no tell you say I dey travel” “I thought maybe you would have...
JUST before the February and March general elections, statesman, Chief Afe Babalola [SAN] was reported to have said that Nigeria had become unrecognizable given the level...
EACH time Nigeria’s President, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu goes rogue Nigerians pay a price. A huge price usually. So it is incumbent on us to be...
It seems to me, with due respect, to every party concerned, that while we are all obsessed with the contemporary, topical issues of Ministerial nominations, the...
“Mmiri siri n’isi were gbaruo”. Igbo for the stream was polluted from the fountain head. When you hear this said in Igbo language, it means that...
Kasala don burst! WE HAVE BEEN here before. And now, WE ARE BACK here again as casualties of progress in a sorry state of dense gloom....
Each individual has a unique narrative, whether it be one of triumph or hardship. Those who pursue a career in journalism undoubtedly have their own noteworthy...
THE expectation is that after the underwhelming, low energy and indeed ruinous eight years of the regime of the immediate past President of Nigeria, Major-General Muhammadu...
The other day President Bola Tinubu announced that Nigerians are going through the equivalent of childbirth pains, but his administration is determined to ameliorate the pains,...
One of the major issues begging for consideration as Nigeria and other stakeholders review the aftermath of the country’s 2023 General elections would definitely be the...
SIGNATURE is an acceptable mark of identification in business and in relationships. It is also a form of taking ownership of a document, a contract and/or...
The call for Nnamdi Kanu’s release is no doubt higher than that of people who are asking for him to remain in custody. Kanu was first...
The last time Ms Hilda Effiong Bassey featured in this column was in a piece titled “Tales The Country Told Me: Hilda Baci and Seun Kuti”...
Two names readily come to mind as having assured places in Nigeria’s Hall of Infamy. The two names are Buhari, though they should by no means...
NIGERIA’s laws provide that any suspect arrested in connection with any crime whatsoever is presumed to be innocent until found guilty by a court of law...
Ideally, and under other circumstances, Chidi Amuta, the writer of the above tepid display of immeasurable ignorance of Nigeria politics would have been ignored, but for...
Asari Dokubo, the self-styled Niger Delta activist and revolutionary who came into prominence during the struggle for self-determination in the Niger Delta finally got the attention...
“See Paris and die!” We used to hear that as young persons. Paris was meant to be the most exotic spot of European civilization, an intellectual...
ELECTION is a serious matter for countries that are serious. In this regard, we are still struggling to place our country in one of the two...
What’s the reason for government? What happens when any government anywhere fails in its responsibility? And on a continuing basis? How does that society or country...
“How was your Democracy Day?” “I woke up early, listened to President Bola Tinubu’s nationwide address, and I went about my daily affairs.” “Yesterday was a...
After eight years of the Muhammadu Buhari-led Presidency, Nigeria’s democratic journey continues with the inauguration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President on 29th of May,...
NIGERIA, our country, will never let you be. It leaves you no room to understand anything not to talk of digesting it. If only one absurd...
One of the first things that had been cited as evidence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu showing courage and wisdom and hitting the ground running as...
THE main goal of the Structural Adjustment Programme[SAP] was to keep the Nigeran economy, which wasand stil soverly reliant on crude oil, afloat as oil prices...
This argument is for the people. There is now a near-unanimous rejection of the petrol subsidy regime in Nigeria. This is now the popular position. I...
Yesterday, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, was sworn in as the 16th President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria along with his Vice...
In a few days, the presiding officers of the Senate and the House of Representatives would be elected upon the inauguration of the 10th national assembly....
PERFIDY. That’s one word that readily comes to mind while attempting to describe the eight years of the regime of the former President of Nigeria, Maj-Gen....
Of all the many diverse and stomach-churning challenges facing Nigeria, the most intense and urgent is multidimensional poverty. Poverty is the foster father of insecurity, youth...
