Opinion

Here we go again. On Tuesday, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) issued a statement asking President Muhammadu Buhari to “seriously consider” resigning over the pervasive insecurity in the land. Several…

When the history of this country is written, it will be seen that one of the worst electoral…

It is no longer news that the vice president of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, has declared to run for the office of the president. By declaring, he ended months of hide and seek and speculations that he would go for…

The immediate past First Lady of Anambra State, Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano, wants to be a Senator in 2023. She wants  to represent…

I don’t know why Yemi Osinbajo is running kitikiti, running katakata, “no fit drink water drop cup” (apologies to Goya Menor) since I wrote just two articles about him that merely scratched the surface of his…

The chairman of the PDP zoning committee, Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue state, cut a pathetic sight while laboriously explaining the so-called unanimous decision of his committee on zoning. Ortom…

Two things happened on Thursday that forced me to write on this topic. First, I bought a copy of TIME magazine…

In the sociology of death and dying, only those around when death knocks can imagine the pain,…

Money Does (Not) Bring Happiness. You probably would be thinking this is a cliché argument that has been debated thousands of times. Practically, a simple Google search of ‘does money bring happiness?’ would pop out…

Amongst all those running for president in Nigeria’s 2023 election, only Atiku Abubakar is running to retrieve some things he forgot in Aso Rock since he left the seat of government in 2007. For those who had not…

If only Ebenezer Obey’s mum knew! When her son said he wanted to be a jùjú singer, Madam Abigail Oyindamola protested vehemently. “In our family, we don’t sing people’s praises. Instead, they sing our praises,”…

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has triggered a growing interest and return to agriculture through various innovative policy initiatives which supports farmers and protects lenders. The importance of…

After watching the unfolding of events within the past week, it is now imperative to say that our great nation is…

The storm rippling across the political camp of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has initiated a difficult conversation in which, as usual, there’s no room for nuance. As the intellectual poster-child of the executive branch…

Translated in its simplest form, “aṣiṣe” (ashee-shay) in Yoruba means blunder, mistake or error. But the English language perennially fails to capture the nuances of certain Yoruba words. Aṣiṣe is deeper than a…

Toxic negativity is, perhaps, the most dominant strain of the malaise ravaging public intellection in Nigeria. The default mode of a section of the Nigerian community of public affairs analysts is to dismiss…

2023. It is the turn of the south-east to produce Nigeria’s next president, but it is not the auspicious time for the region to do so. The national tenor today is unfavourable for the emergence of a president of…

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…