Opinion

Is the federal government’s war against corruption in Nigeria no longer the causa proxima for the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime or what? Or is that Nigerians don’t…

By Hendrix Chukwudi As the clock ticks towards 2023, the Nigerian political class is not leaving anything to chance as the political undercurrent swells up by the day, in alignments…

Some people never learn but I will tender to them a word of sound advice in the hope that some degree of civility and good sense will find its way to them. It is not…

On Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari discharged the ritual of signing the revised budget into law. That, we know, is the easiest part of the job. The projected expenditure for 2020 is now N10.8 trillion — curiously more…

I read this piece with keen interest, as it followed the tradition of some critics who closely watch developments in the Nigerian political scene and are quick to fit emerging events in pigeon holes they had previously created.…

If you have ever found it hard to sleep because of nightmares filled with enemies you cannot identify, filled with all kinds of abuses, filled with pleas for help harkened to by…

“For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve." - Emily Thorne Ibrahim…

I don’t know if the detained acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu, grew up (like some of us) reading the novels of English writer René Brabazon Raymond, who wrote under…

By Fredrick Nwabufo How much progress has Nigeria made with its ethnic-motility politics? Since 1999, we have had presidents of different ethnic extractions – Yoruba, Fulani, and Ijaw –…

‘’It has been long coming. Expect things to be done differently from now on,’’ a source in the thick of things told me regarding the “arrest” of Ibrahim Magu, acting EFCC chairman,…

The Nigerian House of depravity that could not manufacture solution to our problem of insecurity was caught last week speaking with an overtone of arrogance, conquest and…

It is Ramon Abbas he bears. Even that name puzzles. Some reports anglicise his first name as Raymond. But it is Hushpuppi we know, poetic, lyrical and even symbolic. Hush implies silent,…

Since he vacated office in 2007, ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo has been characteristically wise after the fact in assessing Nigerian presidents. Falling out with his…

Whether we like it or not, the issue of electricity tariff is a touchy one. In the power sector reform, we are always talking about power generation, transmission and distribution. We are always talking about how many…

It will remain true forever that on the day of death, there is no medicine. Bolaji Tunji, Senator Abiola Ajimobi’s spokesman, said his boss took all the precautions of these malevolent times:…

My brother, this no be activism o, this na real life politics where real men play. No be gra gra and be speaking big big English and be quoting Constitution as one of the senators talk. You need a high dose of emotional…

The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has very strong enemies and a few of them would not wait for him to die before burying him. As soon…

I LOVE Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, his stylish haircut, his stage theatrics and his one-in-town miracles. I also love his deep voice and the power and influence they exude. He has spoken about pseudo-science,…

I HAVE read reactions trailing the enlistment of Mrs. Nimi Akinkugbe, specifically on Punch.com, as non-career Ambassadorial Nominee for Ondo State. These reactions are tagged…

*The tragedy of your existence Dear FFK, I have always respected and admired you, your command of words when you speak. You are one of the very few Nigerians who could speak extempore for…

In the piece, Coronavirus: The Nigerian Dream Cure, I wrote that the COVID-19, which “compelled people to stay within their nations and localities, illuminates the genius of the…

Except something else occurs that grabs the headlines and dominates Nigerian social media, the big news of the past week would probably be the death of Senator…

The article reproduced here was written in 2015. It predicted the comeuppance of Bola Tinubu in the APC. I have decided to re-submit it for publication because what was obvious to so many of us on the sidelines what oblivious to…

Babajide Sanwo-Olu is the Governor of Lagos state. Andrew Cuomo is the Governor of New York. What New York is to America, Lagos state is to Nigeria. The two states may not be the capital of…