Opinion

Chinua Achebe’s tortoise folktale in his highly celebrated ‘Things Fall Apart’, among other motifs, excoriates an act of betrayal as evil. In having Ekwefi, one of his characters, narrate the proverbial cunning and treachery…

When the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) declared “Super Cop” Abba Kyari wanted on Monday following his alleged involvement with an international drug cartel, I was very happy. Very, very happy. But my joy…

Killing, killing, killing in the name of Biafra! When did murder become typical of the Igbo stock? When did taking innocent lives become classic…

The resurgence of the activities of the ominous unknown gunmen in the South-East geopolitical zones in the recent weeks is becoming worrisome. Unknown gunmen became a phenomenon in the zone in the aftermath of the…

Even in the 21st century, agro-allied exports constitute the backbone of the world’s most industrialised as well as developing nations. This gives food for thought to Nigerian policymakers at the apex level to accord…

The political space is heating up and supporters of aspirants, as well as fellow journalists, are contributing to it. It’s normal in a pre-election year. Recently,…

With the presidential election exactly one year away and party primaries scheduled for September, Nigerians are eagerly waiting for Yemi Osinbajo to make a categorical pronouncement on his aspiration. It is safe to say that…

Having spent 69 years on Planet Earth, one cannot but be grateful to God, the all-powerful Creator for His limitless mercies, love, grace and favour, especially when one still enjoys sound health against all odds. The pain…

Nigeria’s Minister of Interior Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola is no doubt a grassroots politician, Islamic scholar and a self styled comrade. He was one of Bola Tinubu‘s greatest…

Since the report of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari’s alleged involvement in a drug ring hit the airwaves on Monday, the question of whether he will be extradited to the United States of America to face…

In recent times, there have been media reports on the purported interest of the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, in the 2023 presidential race, leading to stampede by interested parties and…

Those who do not wish the Yoruba well are in the vanguard of those goading our sitting vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to throw his hat into the presidential ring. It is not out of love for the genteel law professor. I…

They wear the nation’s green-white-green flag as uniform. They have their own army, arms and ammunition. Their constitution is superior to the laws of the…

…I am not a candidate of rotation or zoning, I am a candidate of justice, maybe the Southeast or the South has not been able to present their matter very well before the rest of Nigeria. I am sure if you tell to a Muslim, a…

After celebrating “Made in Nigeria, Enjoyed Worldwide” in my previous article, I was immediately confronted with the other side of our beloved country as we slipped into the “Only in Nigeria” mode again. It emerged that…

To ‘japa’ or not to ‘japa’, that is not the question. The question is; if not Naija, where else? If it is not Naija, e no go fit be like Naija. The song by Korede Bello, ‘I love Naija’,…

Former Governor of Oyo State and Osi-Olubadan of Ibadan, High Chief Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja, is a very happy man as we speak. Simply put, he is laughing last and appears to be enjoying…

We thought their time was gone. We rejoiced when one by one our continent was rid of them. Our experience with them was so bad, so terrible, that seeing our presidential palaces without…

IN his address at this year’s annual thanksgiving service of the Lagos State government, which held at the Lagos State House, Ikeja, Governor Babajide  Olusola Sanwo-Olu…

Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, governor of Akwa Ibom state, is an amiable and genial personality. There is this debonair cosmopolitanism and charisma about his makeup that is bound to strike you. A “Lagos boy” (he studied accounting…

In early 2014, the Zimbabwean public sphere literally caught fire. Rumours that the country’s former prime minister and the presidential candidate of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Morgan Tsvangirai, had suffered “a…

Have you flown an aircraft before? I just did. At the first attempt, I was nervous and crashed as I tried to take off. I laughed, shrugged and gave it another try. At the second attempt, my instructor was more than impressed…

Before going into the nitty-gritty of the implications of the continuous retention of fuel subsidy in our National Budgets successively in the past four decades or so, and which by implication indicate that the welfare of…

A small news item from a police statement tucked inside the print edition of PUNCH on Wednesday stirred more interest than usual. In the statement, the police had asked those…