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One hundred days after Buhari
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: The Vulture Circles Around Shaibu
Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, is facing the worst public humiliation of his…
G20, India and Nigeria: Dawn of a new era
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…
Moyo, Tiwa And Revenge
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…
Matters of interest from tribunal’s verdict
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…
From Japa To Japada: Greening The Nigerian Pasture
Modern Nigeria is scarcely a genuine enterprise. It is an unfinished article. The imitation of…
Governors and LG funds: A lie everybody pretends not to see
Local Government chairmen are suffering in very pitiful silence and everybody, including the President, knows that it is…
Barrister Portable And Nigeria Value Restructuring At The NBA
By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. The change of leadership in the Country and its consequences on our social values is already being…
Why The Lagos Blue Line Is Bae
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…
Portable And NBA Wahala Wahala
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…
Tinubu Definitely Graduated from Chicago State University
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…
Is Nigeria truly under a spell?
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…
Shifting from the status quo
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…
Obaseki, Please, Grow Up!
By olawale olaleye In truth, the physiognomy of a man should not be the yardstick for his intelligence. There are…
The trials of brother Trump: The lessons
It is expected that our current political leaders and those who are asking why the new cartel of emerging market leaders called…
Tinubu’s Feast of False Starts
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…
Lagos house of assembly in historic push back
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…
Appointments: Between Gbajabiamila and the merchants of falsehood
By Seyi Bakare FALSEHOOD is not a noble tactic, but some people don’t care. And the reason is not hard to see: ambition,…
Dissecting Actress Kate Henshaw’s Call To Scrap NYSC
The concerns of Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw, on the recent abduction of eight prospective Corps members in Zamfara Stateare understandable as unfortunate…
PDP! Power To Wike!!
I have a strong feeling that many members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, must, by now,…
Wike: Should FCT residents be happy or worried?
Making a city better for everyone is the clear goal of urban government and it is why cities elect mayors to pilot the city governance. Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital constitutionally cannot have a mayor but an…
Here is what the return of BDCs means for the naira
As I like to say, Nigeria is on autoreplay; what happened 10 years ago also happened four years ago, and will also resurface tomorrow. Round and round, the naira story goes. This is the reality of our country. On…
Niger: Northern Nigeria’s Agidigbo drum
“My friends all like the sonorous proverb do we drum the agidigbo; it is the wise who dance to it, and the learned who understand its language.” These are the opening words of the apologue, ‘The Forest of a…
Significance of Wike as FCT Minister
Please, do not wonder why I have to return to my organic beat, Abuja, the nation’s capital this week.…