Opinion

On the surface it appears that choosing a vice presidential candidate for any party may seem as easy as drinking water if you do not have sore throat. It may not involve going through the rigour of an…

I was initially very hesitant to write this article. The reason being that I have too much on my plate now to deal with considering the ongoing war in Ukraine. I also didn’t want people to think that my…

“Be wary of settling in any town or village in Nigeria where an Igbo person is not found.” Only a few adults in Nigeria would say that they have not heard this saying. And on hearing it for the first time, no…

THE irony of the 2023 presidential race is that the clearer the coast, the cloudier the sky. Nigerians have never been so confused and disunited as they are under the Muhammadu Buhari…

All is now set for the 2023 general elections. After the usual horse-trading, power squabbles and contestation among the state actors, virtually all political parties planning to participate in the coming…

Tuesday’s attack on the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje, FCT, by the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) terrorists was especially scary because of the escape of all the 64 Boko Haram prisoners…

Supporters of the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party are on the same extreme trajectory they travelled in marketing their candidates and de-marketing the opposition in 2015. Every…

The activities of a group known as Tinubu Support Organization (TSO) in the historic city of Kaduna on Monday, 4th July, 2022 are landmark in the race to 2023 election within the fold of the ruling All…

There is probably no other politician in Nigeria today…

The question of devolution of power or “true” federalism, as it is popularly called in some parts of Nigeria, has for long been posed and construed in certain government and unofficial circles as a…

The above statement did not come from me. It emanated from an Economic Historian , Lawyer and a Public Affairs…

Nigerians like to quote Lee Kuan Yew and the successes of Singapore ad nauseum. No seminar or campaign speech is complete with quotes from the gentleman. Every Nigerian loves to brag about having read his…

Dear Senator Bola Tinubu, Sincere greetings sir. My name is Olayinka Agboola. By way of introduction, I was Press Secretary to late Alhaji Lamidi Onaolapo Adesina, a former Governor of Oyo State.…

Let me just raise two issues on most of the stories being circulated in the social media against Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. One, why do these stories always come up during election time? Some of these…

CONTRARY to some opinions that the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed, should be commended for “resigning honourably” on health grounds, we urge the National Assembly to…

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…