Opinion

The race for elective positions in 2023 has started and with it a lot of speculations about the candidates for the next presidential election. One of the names that have continued to feature in the news in this regard is…

Each time Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu makes a move to advance his political interests, his traducers come out of hiding, red-eyed and begin to spin all sorts of outlandish tales by moonlight to deceive their gullible audience and cast a…

I stand here today honoured by the burden of expectations upon me and, more tellingly, strengthened by the convictions of the patriots with us in this journey to make history. We are…

Last week, the federal government lifted the ban on Twitter after 222 days. In lifting the ban, the government enumerated the gains of its deal with the tech giant to include Twitter acquiescing to open a local office in…

The market for 2023 politics has been declared open by the son of Abibatu Mogaji who is also the ceremonial national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, BAT. The Asiwaju of Lagos…

Pardon me: I used the title of this article as a bait. Sensationalism is not in my character, pardon me again, but discussing who should be the next president always excites us in Nigeria. We were created for elections and…

Virtually every sentence in Punch columnist, Abimbola Adelakun’s piece of 13th January, 2022, can be faulted either in terms of logical rigour or factual accuracy. The column was titled ‘Tinubu’s presidency: Affliction must…

Monday, 10th January 2022 somewhat marks a watershed in the build-up to the All Progressives Congress (APC) politics of the 2023 Presidential Election. To many of us and other keen observers of political events in Nigeria, we…

For many politicians, leadership is a choice. It is something they choose to do simply because the circumstances are right or the stars have aligned to put them in the path of…

The Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited was inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari last week. Two names were very prominent in the assemblage: Margery Chuba Okadigbo, the Chairman,…

It has started, the quest for a better Nigeria in 2023. Who are the ones running? How many are vying?. We are in crucial and very giddy times, where we have to be meticulous in our…

In the heat of the 2018 killings by criminals, I received a deluge of broadcast messages steeped in conspiracy theories of how the government was backing certain criminal groups…

Fellow Nigerians, on June 12, 2023, Nigeria would have suffered, for 30 ugly years, for the calamitous mistake of annulling our best Presidential election result ever. For the benefit of…

In the fiasco arising from the attempt to execute a 2012 supreme court judgement in Magodo, Lagos, some of the issues that have been thrown up include the legacy of impunity by the…

Lest I forget, I have been living in the Magodo Residential Scheme II, fancifully called “Magodo GRA” by residents, for 20 years: first as a tenant and now as a homeowner. One day in…

Why do we seek angels in the realm of humans? There are no messiahs, angels or a Doctor Strange to magic our problems away. We are all humans – fatally flawed but blessed species. Politics is…

The Federal Republic of Nigeria is a Constitutional Democracy and Chapter IV of her constitution copiously stipulates in clear and unambiguous terms the Fundamental Human Rights of the citizens.…

Many years ago, I sat in the office of a big man who shall remain nameless- and he expressed serious concerns about what would happen after his demise. He had not yet put a succession plan in…

Israel as a nation with so much glamour, political and religion affiliation has been in the public glare of the world for centuries. Many believed that the country holds a…

Mrs Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, dropped a familiar bombshell at the launch of World Bank Nigeria Development Update some weeks ago. Petrol…

Since the sun of social media appeared in cyberspace during the second half of the 1990s, it hasn’t ceased to blaze the dark closets of myths and tradition, exposing their cobwebs, warts and all. And humanity is excited. At…

Nothing emphasizes one’s vulnerability in Nigeria as much as being poor, and this has been the reality of the North’s attempts to implement the shariah legal system. In enforcing this obsessive…

No surprises. It was speculated that President Muhammadu Buhari would withhold assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 and he finally did. His concern, he said, is the mandatory direct primary through which parties…

I live on the Estate but had no intention of going to that part of Lagos that night. Suddenly, I saw a video on the Estate ‘Whats App’ group and it was a lady calling on everybody to come out and block the gates that the Police…