Opinion

Last week, media reports indicated that at the end of filing of personal information before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), many of Nigeria’s presidential and vice-presidential…

Reacting to the heightened insecurity of lives and property in Zamfara State, the state government has asked residents to arm themselves against bandits. Zamfara State Government in a statement on…

The social media, where most political debates take place these days and where brickbats are exchanged between protagonists and antagonists per nanosecond, has caught fire again with reports that Asiwaju Bola…

Political jobbers and war hawks are back on the swing. Many people had hoped that with the choice of the debonair Governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa as Wazirin Atiku Abubakar’s running mate, the…

It is only natural that identity issues featuring such factors as ethnicity, religion, culture and region will always be key determinant influences in the politics of a complex, plural polity like Nigeria.…

Nigeria is a big collection of human species that place abundant efforts on fallacy and fancy but little confidence on facts even when reality dictates otherwise. Ours is a country where people relish the…

Understandably, the average Nigerian youth is tired of and frustrated by, the prostrate state of this country, which calls itself the giant of Africa. The United Nations says youth is “a period of transition…

Nigeria is caught in a maelstrom. Ravagers roam across the land unchallenged, extracting tolls in tears and blood from citizens. They expropriate land and govern according to their lust for violence. There is…

What the CIA does not know does not exist. In Luke 24:5-7, the angel said to the women who went to the tomb in search of Jesus, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead?” For those looking for…

Before, I didn’t think much of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu becoming President…

There is a massive movement led by the youths to register for the 2023 general elections. It is like a battle cry by those who are clearly qualified to vote in the elections rather than the underage and…

Two photos were to be identified on the screen of the phone. There were four Nigerians at the location in Maryland, USA. Without hesitation, three of the Nigerians identified the photo of the gentleman in…

I have done my research on this matter. As I said from the outset, I cannot and will not condemn my friend and brother Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his beautiful wife unless I see the evidence of their…

How time flies! I met Mr Peter Obi for the first time almost 19 years ago — in August 2003 to be specific. He had come to the THISDAY head office in Apapa, Lagos state, on a visit to Mr Olusegun Adeniyi,…

It is time for Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party to pause and…

WHEN I first read the news in People’s Gazettethrough a link forwarded to me by a friend, I prayed that it would not be true. My prayer was in spite of the evidence to the contrary provided in…

Between 2006 and 2007, at the tail end of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, then Governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili, was almost coasting home to victory as the Peoples Democratic…

There is probably no other politician in Nigeria today who recognizes the imperative of choosing a Muslim from the north of Nigeria as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election as Asiwaju Bola…

The chances are that each time you hear the name of Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, what comes to mind is the 2018 video of a man pocketing bribes. In that infamous video, the man receiving wads of dollars…

With the loss of the presidential ticket, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has suddenly become an important figure to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar. It was…

Nigerians often roar at the utterance of audacious statements by public…

WITH the party conventions over, Nigerians now know the flagbearers of the political parties and…

Ifeanyi Okowa hosted the meeting as a hero of the south. Atiku Abubakar hoisted him as his super aide or VP choice. By that, he made his Asaba summit of southern governors a zero for his region. And…

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was 37 years old when Nigeria’s music legend and anti-apartheid crusader, Sonny Okosun released the song, Which Way Nigeria. Three years later, when the Ozziddi King came out with …