Opinion

THE extant coranavirus (Covid-19) global pandemic has exposed the underbelly of the country, and especially that of the elite that control its politics and the economy. And the revelation is damning: it shows emptiness…

Some recent events in Nigeria have gladdened and saddened me in equal measure. I was glad when prominent Nigerians who were diagnosed with the coronavirus publicly declared their status. I rejoiced, thinking this would…

It is that time of the year again when people from different parts of the world come to celebrate the birthday of an icon, the Jagaban of Borgu, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In the rain of…

I’d only been out of the US a week but my experience upon re-entry at JFK Airport was the worst I had seen anywhere! When I landed in Paris airport on Tuesday last week, I noticed the…

Quite a challenging week it has been for Nigeria, and, indeed, the rest of the world, writes Femi Adesina, the media adviser to President Buhari. Except perhaps in China only, where…

All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will be 68 on Sunday. But, the yearly colloquium   to mark the ceremony has been cancelled due to the coronavirus…

Since the outbreak of  Coronavirus, countries all over the world are putting mechanism in place as preventive measures to curtail the spread. Nigeria too has joined the…

At a time the whole world and by extension, Nigeria is focused on how to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic, Pastor Tunde Bakare’s focus is on 2023 presidency. Preaching his sermon on…

Dear Abba Kyari, chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, I have not come to gloat over your affliction by coronavirus (COVID-19); I have come to sympathise with you and…

In the midst of challenges, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu continues to show that he is made of sterner stuff.  In February, an Italian who works in Nigeria…

Sir: In December 2015, the Nigerian military, under the pretense of road blockade to the Chief of Army Staff, attacked members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, thereby killing…

Have you heard the news? If you chew heaps of garlic, gulp litres of chloroquine, drink water every 15 minutes, stay in saunas for one hour, take hot bath every two hours, stop eating ice creams, swallow vitamin C tablets every…

Rome is shut. Mecca is shut to outsiders. Israel doesn’t want pilgrims too. The devil is here. Churches and Mosques in Nigeria are closing. Big churches have been told to shut their doors…

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…