Opinion

By Cecilia Ibru Among the banks present, Oceanic Bank was the first to face the Board. With all the Board Members seated and the CBN Governor presiding as Chairman, he made a brief statement and then handed me a…

By annulling the June 12 1993 presidential election, Ibrahim Babangida, and Sani Abachamade Nigeria regress many steps backwards, and the governance of Nigeria became like rotten flesh, unable to fulfill its…

“Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law…literally…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent declaration of a six-month state of emergency in Rivers State has significant political implications, particularly concerning Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor,…

PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s demonstrably unconstitutional suspension of the elected leaders of…

NIGERIA is touted as the second most religious country in the world; after the Taliban’s…

If anyone had told me in 2004 that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would one day, as president of Nigeria, declare emergency rule in a state and suspend a governor…

Embracing a mentality for continuous growth and improvement is crucial for development especially in the political arena. However, after the events that culminated in the declaration of a state of emergency and the…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s proclamation of emergency rule in Rivers State on Tuesday surprised me for reasons different from those for which he has been severely criticised. The mildest criticism is that…

There is fire on the mountain And nobody seems to be…

“A horrific incident occurred in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, earlier today, where a 42-year-old man, Victor Okoh, allegedly murdered his 38-year-old wife, Victoria Okoh, with a machete over accusations of…

Over dinner some 20 years ago, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then governor of Lagos state, narrated a story I find fascinating till today.…

Politics has been variously defined as ‘authoritative allocation of values or “who gets what when and how”. But I think in terms of intrigue that goes into balancing the interest of pressure groups and public…

“Possibly he cohabited with Miss Bloggs, but don’t mention it in front of his wife, let the sleeping dogs lie.” Gordon Jarvie’s ‘Dictionary of Idioms’ contains that example of a warning that has been with us…

The world is in a mess and this is not just about Donald Trump, but a confused Europe causing disorder and then deploying falsehood and…

 “In every community, there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably, the most dangerous people seek…

In South Africa under the presidency of Jacob Zuma, any analysis of government and governance without factoring sex into the mix was tame and lame. Zuma was a notorious polygamist who had six official wives as…

With Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi central) suspended by the senate for “misconduct” and “refusal to comply with the seating arrangement” in the red chamber, may we now carefully proceed to the…

In my last intervention on the Lagos Assembly crisis, I had concluded that except triggered, I did not intend to say…

Each time any of my younger siblings was rude to me or sometimes attempted to smack or slap me…

Despite his long absence from the epicentre of power, General Ibrahim Babangida remains a subject of constant…

Gradually, the dust seems to be settling on the political crisis that has engulfed the…

Why is Obasa being enabled to take the law into his own hands? Last Thursday’s invasion of…

Growing up in Nigeria, one of the potent values we were taught was to respect our elders, to see them as bearers of wisdom, truth, and moral guidance. Their rich words echoed with the weight of experience. Our…