Opinion

The only real surprise from last Saturday’s presidential election was Labour Party (LP)’s Peter Obi’s magical win in Lagos and other parts of the country. Obi was definitely bound to make some…

The national elections (presidential, senatorial and House of Representatives) scheduled for February 25, 2023, held last Saturday. INEC accredited 229 national and foreign observers (196 national or…

It is a few days to go before D-day and the “thumb-print” has understandably become one of the most if not the most sort after action ahead of the polls on Saturday. The electoral umpire INEC says it is…

There is no running away from the clear and present danger that one man in Finland, a shadowy figure named Simon Ekpa is unleashing bloody terrorism on the people of Southeastern Nigeria. He has…

The hour is at hand. Nigerians are about to pick a new president. I am ignoring the orchestrated crises and keeping my eye on the ball. We have done elections successfully since 1999 and I am confident that this…

I regularly attend the House on the Rock Church in Abuja where the resident pastor made news last Sunday as the first clergy in Nigeria to preach the gospel with an automatic rifle slung over…

Call this piece an alert, or an appeal, or whatever name. By whatever name it goes, the message remains the same: a touching call to stir up the humanity that lies in every soul who comes across Sonia…

Millions of…

It still baffles that in the midst of all the challenges facing Nigerian people at this critical moment, all that the Enugu opposition finds reasonable to offer the electorate are theatrics and a deluge…

Propaganda, lies, and chicanery have always been instruments of war. In World War 2, Germany actuated and deployed the most pervasive, yet incisive propaganda ever witnessed in history. For the…

The intrigues preceding the All Progressives Congress primary election…

As a student of development, I have patiently studied…

At the venue of the All Progressives Congress party convention in Lagos in 2014, all was set by the duo of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to define your end politically. They came prepared to pull…

IN the end, my view may not matter. In the end, most Nigerians may not see what I see. In the end, they may elect Bola Tinubu as the next president this month. But this is a patriotic stance and…

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…