Opinion

Perhaps the best way to illustrate the proper response to the recent steps taken by Nigeria’s President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,…

As the Presidential Election Tribunal progresses, with its complex proceedings, the present situation is engulfed in…

Section 14(a), (b) and (c) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is clear. Section 14(a) states lucidly…

The most enormous defeat ever seen in the history of Kano State occurred as a result of a regression that…

The federal government has launched an ambitious tax drive aimed at doubling revenue over the next three years, targeting…

I sincerely hope that we are all seeing the rumblings at FBN Holdings, where the big boys are playing Russian roulette, and the rest of us are watching. I want to keep a safe distance from the kiti katathat…

In the uncivilized hours of Saturday, I was  wide awake.…

My uncle recently asked me to help guide and counsel his son, who is at that discouraging state which many young Nigerians…

We must tread with circumspection. We must follow reason. Why are we inclined to misadventures? Why are we not having conversations on how the south-east can work with the federal government to improve the…

By Arabinrin Aderonke Ogunleye-Bello President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recently met with Professor Benedict Oramah, president of AFREXIM…

I read with so much amazement and dismay on the outrage on social media on Friday the 30th of June when King Wasiu…

Anambra state government on Wednesday set up an eight-member committee of enquiry to investigate the allegation that Mmesoma Ejikeme, a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate in the state,…

It is a miracle that the recent video of El-Rufai asking for religious domination in politics and mimicking the Nigerian…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been receiving accolades for his initial, somewhat radical policy steps since he was…

As a boxer, Okorodudu Jerry must have faced a few vicious volume punchers. None, it’s safe to say, punched him with greater volume-and savagery-than life itself, which saw penury and grave ill-health deal him…

It doesn’t make sense to weigh tragedies on a scale. How do you measure them? Leo Tolstoy got it right in Anna Karenina when he said whereas all happy families are alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.…

“Those who sow the wind; will reap the whirlwind.” The vocal elite are at it again. Every move by President Tinubu is hailed as the right thing to do — which will soon improve the economy. The last time any Nigerian…

By Jude Aneke. Governor Peter Mbah is in the news once again for the wrong reason. Between June 22nd and 23rd 2023, he, as usual,…

Today, family, friends, political associates will be performing the third year fidau prayers for the continued repose of the…

Nigerians are on the march again. Looking for political appointments. Some of them like vultures lusting for carcasses. Since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office, thousands of Nigerians have, predictably, been…

Asari Dokubo, the self-styled Niger Delta activist and revolutionary who came into prominence during the struggle for self-determination in the…

The philosophy of trueborn, illegitimates, and vagabonds poisons the umbilicus of society, gnawing at the core gradually until it is vanquished by its own internal contradictions. No society makes genuine progress…

I must admit that the policies put into action by President Bola Tinubu these first few days are hard to explain. And indeed, it is not my duty to do so. But there are beginning to be some complaints and many – including…

I have no reservations whatsoever in joining many others at home and abroad in advance on Wednesday, June 28, to celebrate the birthday of a rare breed that bestrode the Nigeria polity like a colossus. First as…