Opinion

Since the National Assembly elections ended in Kwara on March 9, and the current Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, lost at the polls, those who have lived in mortal fear of one of Nigeria’s finest senate presidents ever in…

In my article titled, ‘Atiku’s Dance With National Interest’, which was published on the 4th of March, 2019, in Blueprint Newspapers, I had said that, “…. for the love of God and country, Atiku should reconsider and accept…

Yesterday, March 24, made it exactly two decades since Nigeria lost one of its foremost heroic figures, the late Major-General AbdulBaki Babatunde Idiagbon, to the cold hands of death. He was 56 years old.…

In case you missed it, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), an advocacy group, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint Muslim ministers from five south-west states when he constitutes his cabinet for…

Let us perform an experiment. Let us make a Super Law that says if you are an elected public officer at any level of government, you must enrol all your children in public schools. You cannot send your children to private or…

In today’s rapidly transforming global economy, the only thing constant is change. Businesses that are not keeping up with the trends or are unable to adapt to new disruptive technologies and…

Nigerian crude oil for April has been slow to sell, with offer levels providing little value compared with rival grades from the Mediterranean, North Sea and Latin America — Femi Asu, in PUNCH, March 7, 2019, p…

Each Assembly, from 1999 to 2019, presents a lesson why imposition of leaders on National Assembly always boomerangs In the morning of power struggle for the leadership of the National Assembly,…

My dear Bob Dee! One could have easily made up his mind not to read or respond to anything you wrote after seeing the rather unprincipled queuing up behind Senator Bukola Saraki and then abandoning him, moving on…

When the results of the senatorial elections began to appear, three weeks ago, and it became obvious that Bukola Saraki had been utterly defeated by his old nemesis, Dr. Ibrahim Oloriegbe, many of his social media rats, as…

Nigeria is a heterogonous nation of different tribes and religions, the major tribes being Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba; Islam and Christianity being the major religions being practiced by its populace. Even…

Since I have been old enough to follow presidential elections in Nigeria, I have to admit that I have never experienced the kind of gloomy mood that hit some sections of the country after the declaration of…

I met with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Saturday, 27th January 2018, at his residence in Asokoro Abuja, exactly at 1:57pm, after a scheduled appointment from Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, (Talban Minna), former governor of…

The ego of the dominant power elite has always been fragile. Used to decades of being pampered and catered for, while leading from the kitchen, being pulled back from the feeding bottle it has held down…

The presidential election has come and gone with the attendant political tension and acrimony it ended up creating for Nigerians in all tier of the political system. It further aggravated the already…

God in the moment makes things happen beyond ourselves. Progress is a road that forever extends itself the more we travel it. It never ends but continues to urge us forward. Genuine progress weds the finer aspects of…

On February 27, 2019, lawyer and activist, Mike Ozekhome, wrote a piece under the headline, 'Buhari's skewed view of the Igbo race.' On face value, the piece seemed to advocate the cause of the Igbo race, but a…

“Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation,” Prophet Joel. A week to the polls, a friend phoned from the United States and thought Atiku Abubakar…

The ageing Nigerian husband and father is facing a silent revolt – a gang-up against him by wives and children who have chosen to remain abroad. If you are observant enough, you will notice him in markets – an…

Atiku Abubakar, former vice president and PDP candidate in the February 23 presidential election, should have conceded defeat, pure and simple. Had he done so, he would have uplifted Nigeria on the world stage, and added brownie…

The leader of Kwara’s crumbling dynasty has reportedly conceded defeat even as he urged his party to fight to the finish, apparently hoping for a political miracle in the gubernatorial and state assembly elections this…

Death is stupid. Mammoth, menacing and mean, death is an unintelligent, inartificial robot unmoved by goodness, reason, pleading and praise. Death is a blind idiot, a reckless solitary reaper. But it is not half as stupid and…

The struggle for the number one seat of Nigeria has now climaxed with the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari—The Indomitable Lion of Daura (TILD)– as re-elected for another four years. In an undoubtedly tension-soaked…

The conduct of the 2019 general election has, expectedly, become the subject of heated discussions and debates everywhere — offices, schools, homes, newspaper vendor stands and social media. Predictably, supporters…