Opinion

Barely mid way into his four-year tenure, President Tinubu has scored a contradictory political victory. He has succeeded in getting the…

When he commented on President Bola Tinubu‘s administration during his presentation at an event in Lagos to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the death of radical lawyer and foremost human rights activist, Chief…

Although it is invisible, 17th Century English philosopher, physician and medical researcher John Locke…

IN Lagos ruling circle, the political future, fortune and misfortune of two prominent members are being discussed: one, as much as could be said in the open, the…

Portable is the stage name of Street-Hop rapper, Habeb Okikiola Badmus.   He is crass   in appearance and, ill-mannered    with apparent gaps in thought. Exhibiting outlandish behaviour, he divides his hair into parts…

On Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump an­nounced a plan to slap steep tariffs on imports from key American trading partners – 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% on imports from China. His…

The January 13, 2025 removal of the Lagos State House of Assembly speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, came out of the blue. He was on holidays when the putsch…

Anyone is free to be a hack for hire, but you would expect that, at least for the sake of retaining a little credibility for…

The House of Reps has received proposals to create 31 new states across the country. Amazing. If every proposal sails through…

It has been a head-spinning week for American foreign policy. Tariffs against Canada and Mexico were dramatically announced, then suddenly postponed. USAID was…

Few weeks ago, upon the removal of the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, I had cause to interrogate the implications by way of…

Within eleven months, a dozen structures including institutions were named after Nigeria’s serving president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The most recent of the naming obsession took place on January 23, 2025 when…

As the hearing date of the trial of convicted kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, draws near, it is imperative to interrogate the propriety of plea bargain in the Nigerian criminal…

Democracy thrives on transparency, accountability, and the rule of law. The legislature, as the guardian of democratic governance, plays a…

I should think that it is high time for all the shenanigans surrounding the removal of the erstwhile Speaker and selection of a new Speaker for the Lagos State House of Assembly to have been brought to an end, so as…

Donald J. Trump is back as the president of the United States of America for the second time. With a convincing victory this time at the polls, he is more emboldened to execute his pitiless agenda than ever before.…

FRESH accusations that members of the National Assembly demanded N480 million from federal universities to approve their 2025 budget allocations is a stark reminder of the entrenched corruption plaguing Nigeria’s…

Although 2025 has only just begun, the Machiavellian maneuvers and the increasingly tensile, high-decibel political…

You can say whatever you like about Rt Hon Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, but you can never accuse the former governor of…

In his sensational, post-ouster news conference in Ikeja, Lagos, Mudashiru Obasa, the former Speaker of the Lagos State House of…

The case between Dele Farotimi and Afe Babalola reached a climax when we were informed early on Monday morning that the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, had intervened. Media reports indicated that the traditional…

The news that General Ibrahim Babangida is set to launch his autobiography next month, 32 years after he left office as our fourth military dictator, is one of the surprises of 2025, but will the memoir answer the many…

By Femi Fani-Kayode A friend sent the following to me last night. He wrote, “No to the evacuation of Palestinians. They will never be allowed to return once they vacate Gaza. That’s what happened to their…

Lagos state and the drama of its embattled lawmaker and ex-speaker of its parliament, Mudashiru Obasa, appropriately answer to an idiom in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Insatiably curious about the…