Nigeria now has multiple woes. A region plagued by avoidable afflictions. The narrative about essential issues affecting this great country is that they are all as...
Last weekend the presidential election campaign shifted temporarily to Kaduna as the three frontline contenders for the top job were on the ground in different fora....
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BELOW are excerpts from a press release issued by presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu published on July 22, 2015. The statement spoke in part to the...
Atiku Abubakar’s campaign motif is vacant of imagination. His ‘One Nigeria campaign’ theme is also destitute of originality and sincerity. Personally, I feel insulted and trolled....
What is going on in Great Britain right now is ironic. A few weeks ago, we celebrated the same Britain on account of the glory and...
Last weekend in Abuja a judicial bombshell was dropped as regards the continued persecution and prosecution of the detained Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Mazi...
Africa’s financial sector, particularly in banking, has witnessed significant positive developments, both innovative and disruptive. These have been driven in part by unprecedented risk factors and...
I read ‘Ghosts of the Empir’e written by the then newly elected MP for Spellthorne in Surrey, Kwasi Kwarteng and I was struck by his brilliance...
Last weekend, the Director of Special Media Projects and Operations and New Media for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Femi Fani-Kayode, was in his very best...
Nigeria – Africa’s most populous nation and by extension largest market has a huge demand for Ed Techs which greatly service this gargantuan appetite for various...
STRICTLY speaking the above headline is not original to me. It is an adaptation of a seminal book written in 2018 by two highly regarded Harvard...
The ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has lingered more than necessary and it is one observer can term an epic display of...
Could this be the eclipsing of a coruscating star? Could this be the sectioning of a gadfly? Could this be the end of a political odyssey?...
Few weeks ago the First Lady of Sierra Leone, Fatima Maada Bio, had caused a controversy in the United States when she declared recklessly during a...
FIRST thing first. A confession. I was neither a supporter nor a believer in the candidacy of General Muhammadu Buhari prior to the elections of 2015....
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine came to power by accident of fame or showbusiness. He was neither a politician nor a technocrat but a movie star....
It is a solemn day in Nigeria. A day of sobering reflection of the state of the nation. Nigeria marks the 62nd anniversary of its independence...
Who wants a mob rule? It is off-putting when a miscellany of threadbare youths taken up in hate and seduced by ignorance unpack threats of violence...
It is a sobering indication of the state of the nation, that as Nigeria prepares to mark the 62nd anniversary of its flag independence on October...
WHOEVER wins the presidential election in February 2023 is likely to take Nigeria to mark one generation of the return to democracy, if a generation is...
This is not my style. But today I will depart from the norm. I will reference, generously, another because he wrote to the core of the...
From London where he held official meetings with Nigerian politicians (including ‘Baba’ Olusegun Obasanjo) the Labour Party presidential candidate in the forthcoming presidential poll of next...
The convulsive tenor of the campaign season is bringing out the worst in us. Daggers are drawn, tempers are inflamed; relationships are tested, and our differences...
Kenya and Nigeria have few things in common. Like Nigeria Kenya is an Anglophone country where English language is generally spoken. Like Nigeria the east African...
Recently, the federal government announced that lecturers in public universities, who have been on industrial strike for several months will not be paid for the period...
Yesterday would be remembered for long in history even by generations yet unborn, as a historic moment in the 21stcentury, the day, Elizabeth II, embarked on...
One thing that is synonymous with public universities in Nigeria is strikes. Since 1999, the public university system has lost about 57 cumulative months to industrial...
NIGERIA’s ruling political party, the All Progressives Congress [APC], does not take prisoners. It identifies a target- individual or institution- and goes for the jugular. It...
HEAD or tail Nigeria is not likely to remain the same after the 2023 general elections. Though you could say that given the nature of the...
Lately, London is playing host to a whole lot of meetings involving Nigerian politicians. The British glittering royal capital city is already known as a cosmopolitan...
Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, could be the kryptonite of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike has remained implacable and...
“Ko ko Ko. Pon Pon, Pon. . Helloo oh” “Who be dat?” “Na me oh?” “Who be na me? You don’t know your own name? I say...
THE All Progressives Congress [APC] political party regime headed by the President, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is at war with itself. Before now and especially since...
Without mincing words the current National Assembly in Abuja (NASS) under the rudderless leadership of Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, and the Speaker of the House of...
Like the breaking of every phantasmagoria, the futility of chasing a will-o-the-wisp soon becomes clear. It may take a while, but even the fog of illusion...
Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British/American famous author, has grown gradually old attaining the ‘golden’ age of 75 lately. He was still in his early 40s when...
Election season in Nigeria is an interesting time. It is, expectedly, characterised by heated contestations and conversations that are inherently partisan. It is also often marked...
In early June 2022, 40 people died, including children, in a mass shooting and bomb attack on a Catholic church in the city of Owo, southwestern...
“We are here this evening to witness this momentous occasion as the people of Kenya restate what is in article one of the constitution of Kenya...
IT no longer feels that this place is Nigeria. But the space is still occupied by Nigerians. It used to be thought that Nigerians were smart...
The World Bank in its recent economic update has warned that Nigeria is facing an “existential threat” due to dwindling revenue, continued payment of trillions of...
Recently, the presidential flagbearer of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, met with the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, in Prof. Jerry Gana’s...
To be troubled in trouble is to have your trouble doubled, so goes a saying. And for Hassan Usman, a lawyer, it didn’t just rain on...
JUST about time the world took notice. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the leader of the self determination Independent People of Biafra [IPOB]. To be sure Kanu...
The organizers of the just concluded 22nd Commonwealth in Birmingham, UK deserve high praise for delivering an event at the Alexander Stadium in the West Midlands...
Bureaucracy is a systemic form of administration. Since there is a universally acceptable standard benchmark, a deviation from the ideal type reveals the unintended fault lines...
Sam Omatseye, the Editorial Board Chairman of the Nation Newspaper based in Lagos and its weekly Columnist, made a dubious name for himself lately following his...
The founding fathers of politics in Nigeria came with some ideals girding them. To begin with, one would discover that almost all of them were lawyers...
Professor Okey Ndibe is a great intellectual I hold in high esteem. We had communicated in the distant past via email. He happens to hail from...
The Igbo are loyal, giving and unwavering. They have a predilection for going to the grave with a corpse if need be. They are a dependable...
