Opinion

I have watched with dismay, the attempt to predicate a gubernatorial campaign for Lagos State on nothing but tribalism and one is overcome by a sense of dread that in today’s age, such could be the…

“These elections have not lived up to the hopes and expectations of the Nigerian people and the process cannot be considered to have been credible.”  The above quote from Chief EU observer Max van den…

This is the story of how Olusegun Obasanjo’s support of the structure of criminality ruined Peter Obi’s changes, transformed Anambra State and produced the Peter Obi currently on the national stage. It is…

Wow! The inevitable disputes aside, what an amazing presidential election we just had! Surely one of the most extraordinary in our history. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives…

The numbers are clear. My preferred candidate Atiku Abubakar won’t be coming anymore, at least not through the polls but I do not regret resolutely supporting him. While I do not consider him a messiah, I…

When he came into office, he was tentative. Maybe even diffident. His first few months trended towards the poor end of the spectrum. Pot-holes littered the city and one of his aides announced to the…

The last thing he wants to hear is that he desires anything other than what is good for Nigeria. Hero of Nigeria’s civil war; former military president who supervised the first post-war transition…

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…