Opinion

Nigerians seem to have grown callous to inflictions and afflictions. They appear to have waxed pachydermatous to trials and tribulations. In spite of many decades of torrents of hurt and…

A lot of auguries have attended the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), which holds a crucial National Convention on Saturday. And most of the prognostications have not been good. Implosion. Explosion.…

I have read many articles and commentaries suggesting that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo should drop his presidential ambition in deference to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. They argue that since it was Tinubu that…

I deplore and condemn the barbaric killings and vicious barbarism that has been unleashed against a mainly defenceless and helpless civilian population in Ukraine. Yet, the bitter truth is that all that President…

In Waziri Adio’s article, “Is Nigeria Due for Another Electoral Upset?” (THISDAY, January 16, 2022), he made a strong and neat argument on the near-impossibility of an upset in the 2023 presidential election. By…

While it is the best of times for columnists and cartoonists, it is particularly the worst for other people, especially those who answer to the name ‘Obiano’. It’s no longer news that during the inauguration of…

The rumour mill has been raucously agog with an amalgam of assertions and insinuations that Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the incumbent Governor…

ASUU has always been in the news. And the news has always been about ASUU’s grouse with the Federal Government of Nigeria over the deplorable state of the higher education nay university system in Nigeria. It…

It is difficult to imagine that the church in Nigeria and its leaders would not be interested in politics as Nigeria begins preparations for the general elections in 2023. A heated and emotional controversy was…

What a fitting and appropriate way for Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu to end the South-west leg of his consultations and engagements with…

My maiguard was looking downcast. I asked him what the matter was and he replied with the obligatory “I am fine sir”. I was not convinced. I probed further and he finally opened up: his wife was expecting another…

Considering the body of discourse – not to say doctrine – surrounding President Muhammadu Buhari’s possible successor, I could not but nip everything in the bud in terms of: one, identity politics; two, instability;…

By Chief Emefu L. Ibe The assertion that Nigeria is a blessed nation, is a truism of monumental dimensions. And in spite…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has, again, postponed its national convention. The party’s Caretaker/Extra-ordinary…

Most observers of the macabre dance of tears, sweat, and blood currently playing out in Ukraine, blame Russia for sparking off…

President Muhammadu Buhari can be inscrutable. Difficult to predict and divine. You cannot tell what he is thinking. And like the old general that he is, he has perfected the art of not telling it all and…

The imminent emergence of Senator Abdullahi Adamu as the next chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC has waxed belief that President Muhammadu Buhari was not detached from the politics that played out…

Killings, for ritual purposes, are assuming a worrisome dimension in Nigeria. Even more disturbing is the involvement of people from age groups that would, ordinarily, be classified as vulnerable. The modus operandi…

Old heads will remember the television series, ‘Return of the Saint’. Well, it turns out that even in international politics, we do have “returns” and reincarnations. There is the desire or campaign to return to or…

Gone are the days when high crude oil prices meant a lot to Nigeria, or should I say Nigerians. It used to mean a massive boost in our foreign reserves. This enabled the country to meet its foreign trade obligations…

Dear reader, as you may know, I don’t like doing easy things. I also don’t believe things easily. Tinubu looks like the unlikely president. Yes, he looks frail. He looks old. He has all sorts of allegations around…

Abba Kyari’s response in July after the US Attorney General’s Office Central District of California issued a warrant of arrest against him following his indictment in a case of internet fraud involving Ramon Abbas,…

For weeks, from the CNN through the BBC to Al Jazeera, we were fed the same diet on a daily basis. We run the risk of being victims of intellectual kwashiorkor. Hence, some of us have to cry out! This exercise is not in defence of…

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, popularly called BAT, is a master strategist, generalissimo, who has dominated the politics of Nigeria’s commercial…