My governor, Monday Okpebholo, polled 291,667 votes to become governor of Edo State. Recently, he promised to deliver 2.5 million...
Let’s just say I have not been in the best of spirits for a while. Many things about our dearly beloved country have been weighing on...
A little before six on a Friday evening, my phone lights up. “My guy, where are we chillin’ tonight?” The official close of business is still...
In some years past, when snatching ballot boxes during elections was like a side attraction, Nigerians were never threatened with declarations of brazen killings that have...
In the run-up to the 2011 presidential election, political tension in Nigeria was intense. President Olusegun Obasanjo had done eight full years in office, and power...
By LANRE OGUNDIPE There is something intriguing about President Bola Tinubu’s approach to the 2027 presidential campaign. He appears determined not to conduct the election as...
At its core, what was requested of the Nigerian economy by the Tinubu administration’s main reform initiatives was to distinguish between the removal of an unsustainable...
BY SAADU OLA ISIAKA The World Bank has issued a warning that should concern every developing country: approximately 1.2 billion young people are expected to reach...
Confession: I despised Gen Sani Abacha with the same intensity Obidients hate President Bola Tinubu. I thought I had overcome the ill-feeling after 28 years. Alas,...
BY OLU ALLEN My people, gather here. We need to discuss a matter of national importance. Not the price of food. Not the cost of petrol....