Opinion

There is something mystical about Queen Elizabeth II who passed away on Thursday, 8 September, at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. There is something magical about the queen who…

I admire and respect the energy and passion of the Obidients and as I said in an earlier write-up titled “Who Are These Obidients?”, I believe that they wish to effect a social and political…

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Prior to the unfortunate war between Russia and Ukraine, many local and global issues have hitherto remained opaque to our ordinary understanding of international relations for many years.…

The criminal activities of some Nigerians have once again put the country in the news for the wrong reasons; exposing law-abiding citizens to restrictions they do not deserve from other…

AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has long unveiled his multi-sector agenda for the people of Kwara State. He speaks to this agenda every day — and will continue to do so in town hall meetings,…

Some two or so months ago, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Party came up with a clever, unexpected political move or calculation aimed at helping it win next year’s presidential election by…

It was breaking news that came like a thunderbolt. Many Nigerians least expected it at the time it happened in March. Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife have been arrested in the…

“The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the…

Finally, the month is here. September is Nigeria’s presidential campaign flag-off, preparatory to the February 2023 election. For those who relish colour, panache and flurry of demagogical…

In my upcoming…

“Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike” — Plato “Liberty cannot be preserved without a…

A social media post claims that…

INSUFFERABLY notorious for missing set deadlines, the sluggish pace of work on the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway is exacting a heavy toll on road users and businesses. Since reconstruction…

Eric Teniola, a former Director in the Presidency has revealed how first Nigeria military ruler, General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, killed the regional police on assumption of power on January 1, 1966…

Out of the blue, I was inducted into the dreaded hall of fame for victims of disinformation last week. An article I did not write and had not even read was attributed to me. A dozen…

The power tussle between the Police Service Commission (PSC) led by a former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Musliu Smirth, and the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, over the…

Senator Kashim Shettima, the All Progressives Congress, APC vice-presidential candidate has lately been the object of much joke over his dressing gaffe at the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA…

Our politicians are incurable. The Obudu ranch is rotting away. They have made it look like a white elephant with their prodigal foreign appetites. The naira is perishing. They seem unperturbed,…

THREE times the cock has just crowed signalling a stainless dawn. In this stainless dawn that is not befogged or fogbound, two great personalities can be seen without being silhouetted. They are High Chief Ekpemupolo Oweizide Government…

The implosion. The biggest political upset of the decade is, perhaps, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) self-deracination. Proverbially, the party fetched the coal for its own…

If someone had landed in Nigeria from Mars on Monday and read treads on Twitter Nigeria, he would have thought Senator Kashim Shettima was one tasteless, uneducated Nigerian. But the man so…

The ghost of the hasty and shoddy privatization exercise of the electricity sector in 2013 emerged from last week to cause a total blackout across Nigeria on August 17, 2022. As a way of…

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