Opinion

This headline presupposes that the Central Bank has been lost, destroyed or finally finished off by the former management. Even if that…

Let me begin by making a distinction here. Nigeria’s military acknowledges two Obasanjos in its records. One has been retired for nearly 45 years now, while the other was at best a toddler when the older disengaged…

Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, courts controversy like a moth to flies. I once asked him why he was this mischievous. He looked at me and smiled and pulled my hands in a playful gesture as we walked…

Despite having about 13 governors, 36 senators and 118 House of Representatives members in the National Assembly, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is playing second fiddle as the main opposition party after the…

The upsurge in military coups in Africa is leading to curious propositions on the suitability of “liberal democracy” on the continent. Questions are being asked as to whether or not we need to tinker with our practice…

By Garba Shehu THIS week, President Muhammadu Buhari clocked 100 days away from office after completing two terms of four years each as President of Nigeria. He chose to stay in Daura to be far away from Abuja in…

Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, is  facing the worst public humiliation of his…

The G-20 summit held in New Delhi, India, is over. And by every metric of assessment, it was a great outing for the Nigerian delegation led by President…

By Zayd Ibn Isah In what seems to be another troubling reflection of the Nigerian entertainment industry, a video emerged showing actress Moyo Lawal engaged in a sexual encounter with an individual believed to be…

For 14 or so hours on Wednesday, the presidential election petition tribunal delivered its judgment on the petitions filed against the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives…

Modern Nigeria is scarcely a genuine enterprise. It is an unfinished article. The imitation of…

Local Government chairmen are suffering in very pitiful silence and everybody, including the President, knows that it is…

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. The change of leadership in the Country and its consequences on our social values is already being…

I was 35 years old when I first flew to Paris. If memory serves me right, it was an unimpressionable intercontinental flight to the so-called City of Romance. Even from the shabby Murtala Muhammed International…

As a legendary international promoter showbiz guru and strategic creative economy stakeholder, I smirked with a mix bag of laughter and disdain when I read…

I’m no fan of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Anyone who has followed my writing in the last few years will attest that I rank in the top three severest critics of his person, record, and politics. But I’d be remiss…

In the dying days of his administration in 2007, President Olusegun Obasanjo sold 51 percent of federal government’s stakes in two of Nigeria’s four ailing refineries to Bluestar Oil Services Ltd — a consortium…

Governance is serious business. It demands gravitas, rigour, diligence, and urgency. Those saddled with the responsibility of managing public trust must do so with circumspection, sobriety, and solemnity. The mood of the…

By olawale olaleye In truth, the physiognomy of a man should not be the yardstick for his intelligence. There are…

It is expected that our current political leaders and those who are asking why the new cartel of emerging market leaders called…

If you consumed too much foreign media after the inauguration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29, 2023, you would conclude that Nigeria was finally on its way to El Dorado. From day one, when Tinubu said…

The story that the Lagos State House of Assembly rejected 17 commissioner-nominees out of 39 names sent by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State governor, looked every inch like fake news initially, but it turned out to be…

By Seyi Bakare FALSEHOOD is not a noble tactic, but some people don’t care. And the reason is not hard to see: ambition,…

The concerns of Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw, on the recent abduction of eight prospective Corps members in Zamfara Stateare understandable as unfortunate…