Opinion

Series of reactions have typically attended the October 1 broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari to mark the 61st anniversary of our Independence Day. These include the good,…

ARE you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?” Those memorable lines from Maximus Decimus Meridius in “Gladiator” come to mind as a clip of Dr. Chike Akunyili’s brush with death…

How much money, property does a man need? I am compelled to believe that the faculty for primitive accumulation is a pre-historic flaw of the African species. From Mobutu Sese…

The potency of fake news as a weapon of destruction and destabilisation was laid bare during and after the recent #EndSARS protests in Lagos and other parts of the…

I watched with growing consternation the opposition to the establishment of a Naval ‘base’ in Kano. The decision followed the approval by the Navy Council to establish three…

On Wednesday, September 29, 2021, at the Akwa Ibom Governor’s residence in Abuja, 12 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors in a meeting, zoned the party chairmanship to the north.…

The brutal murder of Dr Chike Akunyili by the so-called “unknown gunmen” — I call them “the Boko Haram of the south-east” — has torn my heart to pieces. I was an…

It has been an interesting week, reading commentary around the 'This Day' interview with the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola. Of course, it was easy to tell that…

By Comfort Obi Dr Chike Akunyili was killed on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. I have a prayer for those who murdered him, and their sponsors. May they…

Nigeria is 61 years old as an Independent country. And so what? What’s the big deal about it? That is what some people will say, arguing that all we have seen is flag…

In the past few weeks, I have written extensively about the naira and Nigeria’s foreign exchange regime. As a result, I have got quite a lot of feedback from virtually all…

Fani-Kayode’s recent defection is a strategic political move, writes Bolaji Adebiyi Femi Fani-Kayode is the latest butt of jokes in several circles. Many would…

Since President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume as the Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), several media…

Not a small ruckus has been caused by the defection of former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All…

Power. It excites and incites. It can excite hope and strength, or incite tension, hate and bitterness. Why should the regional background of the next president be a vexatious…

Politics without principle, a former Indian anti-colonial nationalist, Mahatma Gandhi, once described as a deadly sin. He though listed six other human…

Come to think of it, I have spent the past 18 years campaigning for restructuring, although not along ethnic lines. My campaign has been three-fold: (1) restructuring…

It’s amazing what partisan reporting can do to a distressed nation. The reports that came out of the request by the Presidency to the senate for the $4.9Bn loans chose to headline it…

They came to free the people from oppression. The Taliban of Igboland. Their motto is Freedom, Justice and Peace. Another piece of colourful rhetoric. Freedom, but not of expression. Justice…

There are two tough positions in Nigeria’s public service whose incumbents deserve tons of public sympathy. The chairmanship of the Independent National Electoral…

The evolution of Nigerian federalism has undergone major genetic variations in the last 20 years, but the war that has just broken out over the value-added tax (VAT) may become the…

Fellow Nigerians, I’m back again with my epistle this week. As we inch closer to another monumental and hopefully defining election, I need to sound this note of warning in…

When President Buhari’s tenure as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes to an end on May 29, 2023, he will be leaving office with a much bigger following in the Southeast…

An average reader of this column may not be far from being correct if he summarizes my writings as expression of anger against all that is wrong with Nigeria, dedicated to…