Opinion

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…

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…