By SOC Okenwa… The Nigerian First Lady, Aisha Buhari, is a combination of brain and beauty. Nigeria has had many first ladies but this one is...
By Sonala Olumhense… Few articles in print can be as troubling as “The Spiritual Side of Aso Villa,” published by former Nigeria presidential adviser Reuben Abati...
By Femi Adesina…Let me begin with two clarifications. Aso Villa is not my home, I am just passing through. Even this world is nobody’s home, we...
By Joseph Edgar… Something in my mind told me that the sudden re-emergence of Mr. Obanikoro was not ordinary. At the wake of this administration and...
By Farooq A. Kperogi… Mrs. Aisha Buhari bucked tradition by openly criticizing the political appointments in her husband’s government. There is no precedent for this in...
By Reno Omokri… The book ‘Muhammadu Buhari-The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria’ by Professor John Paden is not only an intellectually lazy work, it is also...
By Joseph Rotimi… Nigerians, especially the ruling political class and their backers within and outside the country were in a virtual state of euphoria about a...
PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI returned to the country after a three-day intensely busy State Visit to Germany which, as is usual with his foreign engagements, was characterized...
By Okey Ndibe… In political terms, last week was supposed to be a fair one for President Muhammadu Buhari. At his inauguration a year and five...
By Olusegun Adeniyi… I woke up last Friday to find on my handset messages with strange questions: Is it true that people bath with blood in...
By Femi Fani-Kayode… “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil for thou art with me. Thy rod...
By Joseph Edgar… Obanikoro was the immediate past Minister of State for Defence during the last administration and he never let any of us forget that....
By Jafaar Jafaar…. At the heat of the intense pressure mounted on the BBC to stop airing the remaining part of the controversial Aisha Buhari interview...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Barring justice in heaven, judiciary use to be one place in Nigeria where people get relative reprieve. Our lawyers and judges were...
By Reuben Abati… Public communication is one of the most delicate challenges that people in public life face, either in the corporate or the public sector. Many people...
By Sonala Olumhense… Finally, Nigeria last week got around to the touchy subject of taking the filthy wigs off corrupt members of the judiciary and calling...
“He who finds a wife finds a good thing…” – PROVERBS 18: 22 By Dele Momodu…. Fellow Nigerians, please forget the shakara of all men who...
By Joseph Edgar… I am an ardent supporter of the President Buhari, although not of his government and most of his policies so far, but on...
By ‘Tope Oriola… The BBC has reported a reverberating interview given by the first lady, Aisha Buhari. The first lady was brutally honest, unequivocal and stunningly...
By Dr Ijabla Raymond… Reuben Abati’s article is significant. It corroborates everything I ever said about the pervasiveness of witchcraft superstitions in our society and validates...
By Reuben Abati… People tend to be alarmed when the Nigerian Presidency takes certain decisions. They don’t think the decision makes sense. Sometimes, they wonder if...
By Okey Ndibe… Last week, agents of the Department of State Security (DSS) carried out a series of commando-style raids at the residences of numerous justices,...
By Taju Tijani… Talking heads, chattering lawyers and social media highways were set ablaze when it was revealed that judges were ambushed, shocked and awed by...
By Tony Ogunlowo… In less than a months’ time the Americans will be heading to the polls to elect a new President. And unless Republican contender, Donald...
By Sonala Olumhense… In April 1983, shortly after then Major General Muhammadu Buhari launched the War Against Indiscipline (WAI) in his new capacity as Nigeria’s Head...
By Prince Charles Dickson… Do you remember that gist on the bush meat and the hunter? It was Frank Zappa that said there is more stupidity...
Biafra: Neither Pro Nor Anti By SOC Okenwa… As a full-blooded Igboman it is always emotionally difficult to write about one’s ethnic group or people especially...
By Joseph Edgar… I had watched strenuously to see how far the Asiwaju would go with wielding so much power over his political structure spanning the...
By Reno Omokri… The present trials of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the colossus of the Southwest is not surprising to those who have vision. I saw it...
By Femi Fani-Kayode… Professor John Paden, President Muhammadu Buhari’s official biographer, is a man that is very comfortable with distorting the truth and telling lies. He...
By Joseph Edgar… If you have been conversant with the news in the past few days, you would have learnt that, finally, what I have been...
By Louis Odion… It is obvious that the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) is assailed relentlessly by fissiparous forces. It does appear the poison has been...
By Louis Odion… With the inauguration of the Ken Nnamani committee on Tuesday, the Buhari administration is following closely the footsteps of his predecessors in what...
By Churchill Okonkwo… Political hypocrisy in Nigeria is so pervasive that it calls to mind the 1664 classic play Tartuffe which is centered on a hypocritical priest...
By Femi Fani-Kayode… There are two events that are of major significance this week. The first is the birthday of a man of immense integrity and...
By Tony Ogunlowo… In his acclaimed publication ‘The Trouble with Nigeria’ published 33 years ago, in 1983, the late Chinua Achebe pointed out that the ‘...
By Olisa Akukwe… Edo election has just been concluded, with the usual recriminations and counter recriminations. The opposition party that lost the election, characteristically refused to accept...
By Joseph Edgar… This is the statement, I hear, Vice President Osinbajo made in a reported sermon he made to his church members and what immediately...
It does not matter where one turns, the headlines scream that the 2016 US election is tight. How tight? Like in Clinton 42% and Trump 42%...
By Reuben Abati… The various reactions on Independence Day yesterday can only compel us to ask one question: what does Nigeria mean to you or me?...
By Farouk Martin’s Aresa… Here we go again! We have not recovered from the excesses of past politicians that decided to sell Government properties to themselves,...
Nigeria enters her 56th year as an independent country in deep sorrow. Nigerian politicians who are largely responsible for the economic woes, recession and depression in...
By Hakeem Babaloa… Bi o san ko san olorun ma fi were dan mi wo (Whether it will be cured or not, oh Lord, I reject...
“… President Buhari, on coming into office in 2015, ignored the looming economic danger and focused single-mindedly – and, in retrospect, unwisely – on the fight...
By Femi Fani-Kayode… Nigeria is 56 years old today. Consequently it is time to speak some home-truths and look at where we are in the scheme...
By Prince Charles Dickson… The greatest lesson in life is to know that sometimes even fools are right—Winston Churchill So, that the country is in recession...
By Levi Obijiofor…. I start today with a question I posed 11 years ago. If you were asked to rank the following people in terms of...
By Reuben Abati… As Nigeria marks its 56th Independence Anniversary, very few Nigerians would expect any form of celebration or excitement. Independence from colonial rule in...
By Joseph Edgar… I have been waiting for this verdict before I put pen to paper. I must confess though that I have not really shown...
