Opinion

Quote me: the coming Presidential election will be the cheapest ever in the history of our country. This government will not loot the treasury or empty the Central Bank to buy votes. Money meant for arms will not…

Dear Peter Obi, on February 23 rd , 1927, physicist Werner Heisenberg first described his Uncertainty Principle which states that the more precisely we can determine a particle’s momentum, the less information we…

On Monday December 17, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari who is seeking re-election for a second term of office will be marking his 76th birthday and, in his own words, “still going strong.” His age is no longer an…

What manner of man is President Muhammadu Buhari? His spokesman FEMI ADESINA, in this piece to mark his 76th birthday, argues that he is an honest man who despite seeking a second term in office refused to lie to…

In case you missed it, 71 reps have tabled a bill before the house proposing the adoption of a parliamentary system of government in Nigeria. For some reason, this major development is not trending. But I find the…

WHEN  the presidential flag-bearer of  the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku nominated Mr. Peter Obi as his running mate, joy was universal. In the political history of Nigeria, no such nomination was greeted…

On the weekend that Fr. Mbaka was shamelessly trying to extort money by harassing and blackmailing Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, you, Bishop David Oyedepo was busy maliciously gossiping (from the altar) about…

Except in Utopia, the chairmanship of a national party in any democracy on earth, let alone that of a governing party, is certainly not a picnic. The unfolding scenario in the ruling All Progressives Congress sharply…

Dear Senator Saraki, I wrote a letter to you almost 2years ago titled “When does ambition go overboard?” Whether you read that letter or not, I am determined to write you another letter. I am writing this letter as a citizen…

On Friday, a little-known civil society group, Zamfara Unity Forum, issued a press statement raising the alarm that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was trying to interfere in the 2019…

In an election season in which a president whose interrogation of the body politic has not only brought an upset to the applecart, but whose actions has also resulted into a tectonic shift in the dominant…

Our modern day heroes and heroines are those who have taken it upon themselves to consistently speak the truth to power, without being rude. They have refused to toe the line of those—who daily worship the current…

It’s difficult to say which one was worse: the original falsehood or the misinterpretation and rebroadcast of its parody as gospel truth. The fugitive and self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,…

As the 2019 election draws close, we should expect an array of election entrepreneurs and predictors to become ubiquitous. A few days ago, the influential London-based Economist magazine was reported by several…

The story of Nigeria’s 1962 census never gets old. Southern politicians seeking to end the north’s dominance of Nigerian politics decided that the only way to do it was through the census. Population figures at the time…

Putting it straight, if Jose Mourinho was Nigerian, there is no way he would escape Buhari’s anti-corruption war — either by being locked up by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) or being labelled in…

“Iya Kabiru must be the luckiest woman in Nigeria today” “Who is that? I don’t know anybody so-called” “You don’t know Iya Kabiru? But you know Baba Kabiru?” “Do they know me?” “This is the problem with…

IN 1844, the Revd Samuel Ajayi Crowther returned home to Yorubaland (now part of modern-day Nigeria). Twenty years earlier, he had been kidnapped and sold to European slave traders who were bound for the Americas. He was freed by…

Oby Ezekwesili caused quite a stir on Sunday on Abuja streets. Even as the ruling APC and the main opposition PDP continued to trade insults days after individually presenting their election manifestos ahead of what promises…

Heavily-stained Senate President, Bukola Saraki, the fading lights of his charmed political life seems to have come on and this is no laughing matter for the rambunctious politician whose bullish political stock has…

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t like to involve myself in the nauseating debate about the rumoured cloning of President Muhammadu Buhari and the imaginative Jibril Aminu of Sudan because it is rubbish in the face of…

I have a story to tell. In the 1970s, three governments set up national oil companies to engage in exploration, production and refining. Nigeria created the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Norway set up…

With the wisdom of hindsight, Nigeria has had a checkered political and economic history. And as put forward by Dr Okonjo-Iweala, like many other African countries, it won its independence in 1960, and went on to…

It is very easy to live with the fact that Jimi Agbaje, candidate of the People’s Democratic Party who is the main opposition to Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of All Progressives Congress in the race for the Alausa…