Opinion

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…

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…

“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…

Please, do not wonder why I have to return to my organic beat, Abuja, the nation’s capital this week.…

At a time when Nigeria sorely needs a lean and swift government, President Bola Tinubu has opted for an unwieldy cabinet and an inscrutably slow approach to fully…

After days of dithering procrastination, President Bola Tinubu last Wednesday finally assigned portfolios to the 45…

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must…

Q: In a situation where the country does not export more to earn enough foreign exchange, floating may cause a run on the local currency. That is the crisis…

Caveat Emptor: What is adopted and said here is pending the judiciary determination of who ultimately becomes the…

Anytime I see people celebrating a coup d’état, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I always remember the military coup of December 31, 1983 that ousted President…

Why is anyone with any understanding of the present imperative in the management and deployment of our resources, is now at the point of…

The memory remains vivid in your mind, as sharp as yesterday. It was a Saturday evening. You were sitting in your student’s flat in Edinburgh, having a relaxed post-prandial discussion with your friends who were…

The trending news at the moment is the video of Godswill Akpabio, the President of the  Senate, declaring that a token had been sent to the accounts of the senators to enjoy their holiday. The Senate President…

When I wrote an article about Nasir El Rufai’s romance with controversy in 2021, I could not have predicted or forecast that he was going to be the centre of attention for the failure of the Senate to confirm his…

If President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hit the ground running, it was because problems chased him into office. Yet, it wasn’t long before he tripped on a matter in which his genius had been acknowledged: forming his…

There is the likelihood that a military coup d’etat can still happen in Nigeria given our egregious variant of democratic culture, the compromised nature of our judiciary, and the Nigerian people’s disenchantment…

Once upon a time, a political party bestrode Nigerian politics like a colossus. It governed Nigeria for 16…

I don’t believe that President Bola Tinubu does not know the implications of his warmongering stance against the Niger Republic. If…

Nearly everyone I grew up with in my childhood church in Lincoln, Nebraska, is no longer Christian. That’s not…

What is the value of a human life in our dearly beloved Nigeria? I don’t know. But the death of Dr Vwaere Diaso, a medical doctor, at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island, on Tuesday, offers yet another…

Life is funny. I am trying not to say it is a b**ch. But its twists and turns, often times, leave one breathless. And wondering. And…

It was 32 years ago that General Ibrahim Babangida, the flamboyant and self-styled military…

Successive administrations in Nigeria start out by apprehending demons, or enigmatic forces, against which they will test their political strength and define the character of their government. Those forces are…

Niger Republic has nothing to offer Nigeria, but trouble. It is one of the largest countries in the world and one of the…