Opinion

Last week, I experienced one of the worst encounters in my 15 years of international travel. I was travelling from Abuja to the Swedish city of Gothenburg to attend the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference…

The Yoruba tribe seems to be witnessing a resurgence with the fraught emergence of their President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Yorubanization of our systems since this emergence, have risen in tempo and in noise to the…

Last week at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Iseyin, Oyo State, Olusegun Obasanjo, former head of state, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the republic ordered “traditional rulers” from Oyo…

The mantra of the world’s justice system is “Innocent until proven guilty” but the Netizens and the so-called social media activists seem not to be in the know. Since the news of the death of former Marlian Records…

My former neighbour, a civil servant, used to tell me how he was preparing carefully for retirement. “I am very cautious with everything I do in the office,” he would say, “because I do not want to be going to the…

In the realm of Nigerian politics, the stage is often set for gripping drama that could rival any Netflix series. Recent events in Edo state have provided a fresh serving of political theatrics, featuring the remarkable…

The authors of the iconic book “Why Nations Fail,” Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson, stated that it is the parasitic political and economic…

Nigeria, particularly its aviation sector has again been enmeshed in an ongoing diplomatic drama over the hitherto communication…

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…