Opinion

Nations should be governed as if they are companies. Nations should be governed by men or women who have owned a company - preferably a big company. For generations, this has been the neo-liberal…

The national leader of APC, Bola Tinubu has finally swallowed all the noisemakers including Ministers Rotimi Amechi, Festus Keyamo, Governors Obaseki, Bagudu, Fayemi and El-Rufai who wanted to remove his installed National Chairman,…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo needs no introduction in his home country Nigeria, indeed in Africa and beyond. As a governor elected in 1999, we built a relationship that was based on my high opinion of him, needless…

It did not come as a surprise that Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole would survive the latest move to sack him as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). His opponents have been…

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments and news sources to provide the most accurate and helpful advice to the world's population, as the disease is indeed global in reach. Health care professionals are in high demand, and so…

Towards the tail end of last year, few Nigerians who felt they had known the subject of discourse like the palm of their hands, took to the pages of most influential dailies to…

The dethronement of His Highness Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II as the emir of Kano did not catch some of us by surprise: it was long in the making. All you need to do is google his public statements in the last four years, either…

It is easy to jump into the fray but getting out, most often than not, is near-insuperable. So it is with what has become a tragicomedy in the Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and Emir Muhammadu Sanusi affair which was three years in the…

When, in January 2016, I wrote that despite being a lifelong Republican who worked in the previous three GOP administrations, I would never vote for Donald Trump, even though his administration would align much more with…

Governor Abdullahi “Gandollar” Ganduje is no doubt a contemptibly philistine monster of avarice and debauchery who dethroned Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano…

An outspoken ruler mired in conflicts is ousted without warning from his palace and banished under armed guard into an uncertain exile beyond the borders of his realm. This…

As a barely interested observer following the dramatic developments of the dethronement and subsequent banishment of the former Sarkin Kano Muhammadu Sunusi ll, from afar, I am basically more interested in the implications…

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Adamawa State is among the top 10 states in Nigeria with least Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in the third…

Shock and criticism greeted the dethronement of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II on Monday. The announcement of his removal swept through the entire nation like wild fire. He was clearly a…

Alhaji Isa KAITA (1912-1994) was the Northern Region Minister for works between 1954 and 1957 and later Minister of Education between 1957 and 1966. He later became the Waziri of Katsina. Alhaji Kaita was one of the few…

Were you as disgusted as I was on Monday when the Cross River house of assembly voted against confirming Justice Akon Ikpeme as the substantive chief judge of the state for purely ethnic reasons? In the wisdom of the state lawmakers,…

I think solidarising in struggle is more rancour-proof than banding in victory. In 2013, the PDP galloped from one crisis to another until it imploded and lost power at the centre in…

Sir: There has been a nationwide campaign especially on social media for the proscription of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) because of their excesses as a result of which many…

The Yoruba people of South Western Nigeria, described by one English Language dictionary as the fun-loving people of the Southern part of West Africa have a habit of greeting people over everything. Whatever the matter is, they just…

Rumours are rumours! But, if, indeed, there is any substance or element of truth in the rumoured presidential ambition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then, he will have to take some serious steps for…

A 19-year-old secondary school leaver, Chigemezu Arikibe, has been tracked down by the police after using fake social media accounts to swindle a Cambodian woman to the tune of $75,000 (N27m at N360 to 1$). To woo…

The federal government on Wednesday said it was committed to promoting and protecting human rights in the country devoid of discrimination. Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, stated this at the high-level segment of the…

The Association of Nigeria Electricity Distributors (ANED) yesterday told the Minister of Power, Mamman Sale that the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) can only wheel 4,303mw and not 7,000mw.…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil (Mama Boko Haram) alongside Tahiru Alhaji Saidu Daura, Prince Lawal Shoyade and Mallam Adamu Sani before Justice Jude Dagat of the Federal High…