Opinion

Whoever wins the February 2023 presidential election in Nigeria would have done so chiefly because of, or, in spite of, Mamman Daura, the 83-year-old senescent nephew of President Mohammadu Buhari. This…

A few days ago, Chief Seyi Tinubu, the only surviving son of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, was in Anambra to meet and deliberate with some critical stakeholders in the state. The…

May I seize this opportunity to send my deepest sympathies in advance to…

It is common knowledge that the police invade the homes of the poor to arrest them and take them to police stations where they are detained and charged with all manners of criminal offenses in…

WHEREAS politicians in other climes and jurisdictions obsess themselves with how to add value to their societies and bequeath ennobling legacies, ours, especially those of the Fourth Republic, are simply…

As President Buhari formally inaugurates the Lekki Deep Sea Port in Lagos on Monday January 23, 2023, it is worth highlighting that this landmark inauguration is taking place against the backdrop of the…

Nigeria is a rich country. You have heard this a million times, haven’t you? What exactly do people mean by “Nigeria is…

It is really amazing how an everyday occurrence suddenly snowballs into a nightmare.  A chance meeting with a friend, and Kayode’s world came tumbling down.  He’d rushed home in the middle of the day to pick up…

I was interested in seeing good governance. Now we have seen PDP transformed from what we saw as a vanguard for positive change and development into a party of crooks,” moaned a distraught Asiwaju…

Weeks into what the apex monetary authorities had…

Unless…

The completion of the Second Niger Bridge, which closes today after being open to traffic over the past month, is a big deal for Nigeria’s… The completion of the Second Niger Bridge, which closes today…

Two years ago, when Senator Uba Sani, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state, pushed through a major reform of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria…

I am starting this year with a message to my countrymen Nigerians. Today I choose to celebrate Nigeria. I’m tired and fed up of all the evil reports. While I don’t deny all the issues and failures of…

“In the absence of the cash, there must be the lash.”Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895, Black American…

Dear Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, THE ODDS FAVOURS TINUBU TO WIN THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION For those running around focusing on Tinubu’s age, certificates, alleged ill-health, bublubla and…

Former President, ‘St’ Matthew’ Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo, was among those, who conceived the Interim National Government, ING, in 1993, against popular expectations for the declaration of the…

My friend sent me a WhatsApp chat shortly after President Olusegun Obasanjo announced his endorsement of Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. “What does the Obasanjo…

WHEN last did anyone see the kobo? It has been long, right! The kobo was not phased out. It was not withdrawn from circulation by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). It eased itself out of the…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo used to be a chimera. His influence was mythical yet sweeping. In the past, Nigeria was too small to contain his stature — as he dominated the horizons across…

You might never have heard of Pelé if his great-grandparents had been taken as slaves to Argentina instead of Brazil. At the end of slave trade in the 19th century, Argentina was systematically…

One issue that is serving as a hangover dispensation from 2022 to 2023 is the matter of Godwin Emefiele – the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He is presently in the eye of a storm of…

One of the objectives of…

One balmy evening last week I ensconced on the sofa in my residence and watched Seun Okinbaloye on Channels television reveal the outcome of election projection results conducted by ANAP Foundation…