Opinion

The hypocrisy of supporters of Nigerian politicians can be nauseating. Lately, to even a casual follower of political developments, nothing arouses such revulsion more than the virulence being exhibited towards…

I read the news piece 2023: I’ll Scrap Nigerian Senate, Invest Funds Saved From The ‘Coven Of Thieves’ On Education — Sowore on Yele Sowore’s SaharaReporters and was caught aback as to what is going on in…

Expectations are high. Rightly so. 2023 has been roundly described as a make-or-mar year for Nigeria. Citizens seek change. Things have to change. The current socio-economic tailspin must be arrested. But we…

It is exactly two weeks to the Special National Convention of APC, and there are clear indications that bookmakers may be in…

The catchiest remark I could find on the political scene last week emanated from Kano. In apparent preparation to ditch the ruling APC, make up with his old political foe Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso and join him in…

Education instability is becoming a constant occasion in Nigerian education system. The major factor behind this as glaring to all, is lack of consensus between the two major players, the federal government and…

The stoning to death of Deborah Samuel, a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, over alleged blasphemy is a timely reminder that retail religious extremism is very much alive and kicking in…

In the last seven years, the world has been watching Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo with uncanny sense of pity as the master mourner each time he joins his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, to mourn…

For the second time in the life of this administration, President Muhammadu Buhari visited Ebonyi State last week, commissioned landmark projects, and equally passed the night. Rare, very rare on visits to…

With 2023 around the corner, the mad rush to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari has gathered momentum. Scores of aspirants have entered the presidential race. Within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), about 17…

As the clock winds down on President Buhari’s tenure, one of the underlying questions and expectations is what will happen to the 12 million guaranteed votes that the president has consistently garnered in all his election…

Ndi Igbo. We know how to jinx a good thing. Perhaps, it is our seeming indomitability, boisterousness and Thanos-will that seduce us to think everyone must believe in what we believe in and must act and think…

The insistent return to the same subject matter by those bent on undermining the vice president’s candidacy for the presidency on the APC ticket smacks of desperation and provides evidence of the emptiness of…

In November 2017, it emerged that the Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, had significant interests in an off-shore company registered in Bermuda, which held an account with UBS in London. UBS is a…

The current presidential election process in Nigeria, the sixth, since the return to democratic rule in 1999, is like no other before it. It is the most contested, the most controversial, and the most…

Wikipedia describes transformational leadership as a theory of leadership where a leader works with teams…

THE human experience of change is one conceived and consummated in the crucible of conflict. Change has hardly ever happened without some form of conflict, whether it rages within humans and systems or spills outside…

Time is a great healer. This is apt in describing the settling dust generated by Prof. Yemi Osinbajo’s triumphant entry into the nation’s presidential race. It has remained an issue which gained traction within…

Where should the next president come from? In the unwritten code that guides matters of national politics in Nigeria, the answer is obvious. A northerner will have been president for eight years by 2023 and it…

As Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Osinbanjo prepare to go head to head in the contest to decide who takes the presidential nomination of the All Progressive Congress Party (APC), the question that…

The Yoruba people of South-west Nigeria have a saying: when a child rejects instructions at home, it is from outside that such child is trained. And that was exactly what happened on Tuesday and Wednesday, this…

It is a kaleidoscope – the pattern keeps mutating. Nigeria’s politics should be among the most unpredictable, intriguing and exhilarating. There are more smokescreens than actual smoke; more pawns than real…

I, ordinarily, don’t dabble into the shenanigans of politicians. But three things –…

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is steadily carrying out his threat to “fight dirty” and his targets have been well marked out; President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He has deployed most of the…