Opinion

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…

In spite of the best efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Niger Delta region of Nigeria can no longer breath! The simple reason the region is suffocating is because of the wicked adulteration of the…

People pouring into the streets, in city after city. White, black, brown. All united. Determined to make their voices heard. Undeterred in the face of authoritarianism.…

“The president is trying to project strength, but instead is betraying weakness.”..... President Donald Trump is trapped inside the White House, as a tall and…

How time flies. When Major Abubakar Umar was appointed military governor of Kaduna state by Gen Ibrahim Babangida in 1985, he was just approaching his 36th birthday. He was fresh-faced and handsome, with the trademark…

Since the inception of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, one of its biggest moves so far is the current audacious plan to provide the country with uninterrupted power supply that had eluded it for so long.…

Fellow citizens of the world, the above title is not original to me. It is the headline of a very profound and inspired article written on June 3, 2020, by one of the greatest novelists of the last century, Salman…

For starters, I am happy everyone is finally talking about you. It doesn’t completely heal my heart, but it gives me that much needed reprieve to see you become the centre of everyone’s…

After America burned for a week, Donald Trump threatened to declare martial law from the steps of an historic church. Leave aside for a moment that the clergy and bishop of said…

By his bow tie, you know him. And that distinguishing feature was firmly in place when Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), breezed into the Presidential…

You’d be forgiven if you hadn’t noticed. His verbal bombshells are louder than ever, but Donald J. Trump is no longer president of the United States. By having no constructive…

There has been misinformation about the Nigerian age of consent, with Nigerians being misled by a foreign website. The Nigerian Age of Consent is 18, not 11. (This Is Africa) As at today, if you type ‘age of consent Nigeria’ on…

In the last few months since the death of the late Oniru of Iru land, Oba Abiodun Idowu Oniru, there is still a vacuum of leadership in one of the highly coveted royal seats in Lagos. Lagosians have…

Foreword by Donald Duke In this work Project Nigeria, Kunle Oshobi takes us through the frightening challenges that Nigeria faces against the enormous potential that it abounds and surmises the…

A News Analysis “I can’t breathe,” African-American George Floyd struggled to repeat as Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on his neck last week in the U.S. city of…

If there is any programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that has enjoyed the most attention, spiced with unfair criticisms – hinged mostly on beer parlour facts – it is the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme…

                ‘Imagine if former President Bush, as Trump’s most recent Republican predecessor, backed a Democrat. Bush’s voice has the singular power to reach moderate Republicans and Republican-leaning independent voters,…

This time, perhaps, is the most of the troubling and worrisome of times in the life of the Nigerian born crack international technocrat and president of the Abidjan based…