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No Tears For Nnamdi Kanu
By Farooq Kperogi I’ve known since the beginning of the month that Nnamdi Kanu would be arrested and extradited to Nigeria, but my informant swore me to secrecy,…
BRF at 58: A return to the mind’s infrastructure
Twelve years ago, in his Year 2010 budget presentation to the Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday, 3 November 2009, as Governor of Lagos State,…
Restructuring and the 1963 Constitution
Funny how we hardly reach any cross-ethnic consensus in this country, but the campaign for a return to the 1963 Constitution — increasingly becoming the backbone of the “restructuring” agenda — seems popular in…
Bishop Oyedepo, Twitter ban and social media regulation
IN incisive and pungent critiques of the ongoing consideration in the National Assembly of Executive Bills seeking to amend the Nigerian Press Council Act and the National Broadcasting Commission Act, the Nigerian…
What is Gov Sanwo-Olu doing about the road robbers of Lagos?
Last Monday, the car in front of mine in slow moving traffic, was getting smashed and robbed as I sh** and peed in my pants all at once. And this traffic robbery was happening in broad daylight as police…
Ngige’s sermon on the mount
Did you watch the interview granted about 10 days ago by Labour and Employment Minister, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige, to Channels Television NewsNight program…
The curious £2.55bn award against Nigeria
Something is going on that should be making the headlines but it is not. In March 2012, a company named Petro Union Oil & Gas Ltd filed a suit at the federal high court, Abuja, asking to be paid £2.556…
Lagos to Ibadan by Train: Testimony of a Professor
By Professor Lai Olurode “Nigerian Elites with their unpatriotism and self-centeredness coupled with their greed remain the bane of our development…
Financial Integrity: Who Else Is Standing After Buhari?
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on January 30, 2019, at the annual business lecture of the Lagos Island Club delivered by a former…
Akinwunmi Ambode: The Teacher’s Son Turns 58
On June 14, 1964, at the Epe General Hospital, Lagos, the cry of a new life pierced the anxious maternity ward. It was that of a boy child. A…
20 Years of GSM and Adenuga’s Factor
The year 2021, marked twenty years of GSM operation in Nigeria. Two decades ago, NITEL was the king of telecommunications in Nigeria. Then, one of the major signs of…
The many complications of Biafra
I would say the campaign for Biafra has never been this intense since the end of the Nigerian Civil War in 1970. Although the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB),…
Time For Gandujiyya To Bury Kwankwasiyya
To my understanding, I may be naive, both of the current political gutsy in Kano may be facing similar political doom. Both have had enough field days of public dirty linen…
Yahaya Bello’s Presidential Ambition: Fact or Farce
Not a few were surprised when the calls for Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, to declare his interest to run in the 2023 presidential elections began to gain momentum.…
Ngige and some hard, home truths
Just as well Twitter is temporarily off. It would have staged the maniacal roasting of the latest “Satan” in town, on the irreverent altar of social media, simply because…
Insecurity remains a snag, but Buhari has done well on infrastructure
Is a critic oathed to only hunt for faults? Should he be impervious to hope, optimism and positivity or should he be amenable to fairness, truth and sanguinity – even if the…
Now that our President has spoken
We should thank the God of all comfort whose grace enabled the recent interviews our president granted two television stations shortly before the Democracy Day’s speech, yesterday. I would like to join the…
2023: Why Tinubu should run for president
SENATOR Bola Ahmed Tinubu held his last political office in 2007 when he completed his tenure as the second civilian governor…
‘True Federalism’ and other fallacies
Public debate in Nigeria, permit me to say, is not as educative as you would find in many civilised societies. The predominant elements here are ethnic and religious…
Between TB Joshua and Pastor Kris Okotie — Femi Fani-Kayode
By Femi fani-kayode “Africans do not celebrate great men. They rather take delight in celebrating mediocre men. Africans happily…
Taming Twitter
President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspension of Twitter’s operation in Nigeria has generated a groundswell of reactions, largely negative. This is because Twitter is one of the most widely used micro-blogging…
Senseless destruction of INEC offices
Nigeria’s democracy is under attack. What is happening is beyond the occasional acts of post-election violence which often lead to the vandalisation of the offices and facilities of the Independent National…
Ibori loot foundation: A fitting way to remember a criminal in perpetuity
When news broke last week that the Accountant General of the federation told members of the National Assembly that the £4.2 million returned Ibori loot has been paid to the Delta state government, news…
Between 2023 Presidency and Bola Tinubu
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, popularly called BAT, is a master strategist, generalissimo, who has dominated the politics of Nigeria’s…