Opinion

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…

The appointment of Olawale Edun, a seasoned investment banker and former commissioner of finance in Lagos state, as the special adviser to the president on monetary policy, has set off torrents of speculations on what…

At the valedictory session of the 9th Senate last Saturday, a ‘Most distinguished’ (as they address themselves) told his…

Life is full of bumps, thorns, and twisted turns. Sometimes it leaves a trail of anguish and tears; and yet other times it blazes in the glory of both faith and fate, and bequests unto mankind a threshold of legacies.…

It is hard to know what happened to Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa. Or what pushed him. Was it God? Or was it the much abused …

Senator Bayo Osinowo, also known as “Pepperito,” was a prominent Nigerian politician and a key figure in the struggle for democracy…

Barely one month after Nigerian chef, Hilda Bassey Effiong — popularly known as Hilda Baci, made a much publicized…

Two weeks after Prof Yemi Osinbajo left office as Vice President, I have noticed an undue attention on him. Since these unwarranted attacks have the same theme, I am pretty convinced that they are sponsored from the same…

Last week Saturday June 4, 2023, I had just finished watching the F. A. Football Cup final, in England when a small piece of news item caught my attention that His Excellency Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, former governor of…

For a man used to luxury, used to power, who had for years, been in the corridors of power, mingled with raw…

On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the Senate concurred with the House of Reps in taking the extremely backsliding step of passing the Bill for the Establishment of Police Pension Board. Senate President Ahmad Lawan would later…