Opinion

By Hakeem Bello “BRF is a genius at breaking it down, laying it all out. When he goes on project tours, he stops to ask the artisans and food vendors on the site about how the project has…

By Senator Babafemi Ojudu When a couple of days ago I wrote that APC, unlike PDP, will soon resolve her issues, some didn’t believe. It will implode, it will soon disintegrate so…

In 2006, President Olusegun Obasanjo came up with Vision 20:2020 — an audacious dream to make Nigeria one of the 20 biggest economies in the world by 2020. There were plenty projections that were supposed to combine to…

Sunset on the tenure of a former textile worker, unionist, executive governor and party chairman, retired Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, and members of his National Working…

By Olusegun Fafore Without purpose, life is meaningless. With insight, our path is illuminated. When purpose and insight are embedded attributes of anyone’s life, such an individual…

Please don’t be alarmed, it’s not the end of the world yet. Truth is, we can do without them all, I mean the politicians. We don’t need them at all to survive. But then, who actually is a…

By Tony Schwartz “Imagine — if you can — not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern…

By John DeVore I normally dismiss stereotypes almost immediately because human beings are too wonderfully complex to be lumped into overly-simplistic groups. But it turns…

By Fredrick Nwabufo Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), escaped the axe by the gators last week. He was nearly fired. The…

By Umair Haque The full scale of America’s failure to grapple with Coronavirus — and the horrific results of it — are finally becoming clear. See the chart below? What…

It is very difficult and challenging to come to terms with unfolding development in APC. The disconcerting reality of becoming clobbered into another undemocratic political platform, which…

Are the labours of the founding fathers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) not in vain today? In 2015, it became the ruling party, having won the presidential poll. Last…

All Progressives Congress (APC) is on the cusp of an implosion. The crisis in the party has reached a frightening crescendo. It has been a gradual but steady plummet for the party…

INSTEAD of wailing about his disqualification from the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election, Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki needs to look in the…

The profile of the avoidable disagreements between our ageless First Lady, Aisha Buhari, and President Muhammadu Buhari’s aides and families who are living inside the Aso Rock, will keep one wondering if Nigeria has never had a…

If there is any issue, whose ghost will either rightly or wrongly, continue to haunt the administration of Buhari, even after the life span of the administration has lapsed,…

THE Yoruba folk tale reminds one of Godwin Obaseki and his court jesters. It is about a swaggering elephant and the choir behind him. They tickle him with their songs of…

It is often said those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. I was alarmed to hear Governor Obaseki saying he won’t get justice after the Committee of…

Here’s a sad and strange truth. Trump’s America has given up on Coronavirus. Take a look at the charts below: Three of them show what’s called a “sigmoid” curve…

Look at the first photograph above. The late M.K.O Abiola, sitting in the middle and Olusegun Obasanjo, standing to the right. The two were mates at Baptist Boys High School,…

Wednesday June 10, 2020, was ‘judgment day’ for Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. Incidentally, the day had broken with stories of…

The June 12 struggle was a tortuous one. The historic presidential election was annulled in 1993 by the Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. The advocacy for the recognition…

Lagos is metaphorically inside Ogun, the gateway state, reputedly the land of Nigeria’s icons.  But on the flip side of this physical geography of the two…

It is very doubtful if the founding fathers of the United States, who sat for days in a hall in Philadelphia in 1776, trying to figure out how to build a…