Opinion

“Those who vote determine nothing. Those who count (record, and announce) the votes determine everything” – Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union’s maximum dictator. MANY have described the Saturday, July 14th governorship election as the war of…

Anytime Senator Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, spoke about setting up a “national carrier”, I always switched off. Even though I like his ideas — and I still salute his single-mindedness in closing down the Nnamdi Azikiwe…

With the completion of Alisson Becker’s transfer to Liverpool for a world record fee for a goalkeeper for a stunning £67m approximately. It is fair to say that the football transfer market has gone nuts. Even worse is Southampton’s…

I am writing at 4am this morning with so much glee. The Ekiti elections have come and gone and a presumed winner has emerged. We have seen all sort of gloating especially the unfortunate one allegedly issued by the EFCC amongst others.…

I've seen him address the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Seen him speak at AU (African Union) summits. Seen him address the European Parliament at Salzburg, France. Watched him speak to the world a number of times…

Four years ago when he re-emerged onto the political firmament of Ekiti State, nay Nigeria, through the instrumentality of the  now infamous  “stomach infrastructure” philosophy and aided by a compromised electoral process orchestrated…

AFTER much anticipation, anxiety, worry and even fear, the Ekiti State governorship election has come and gone, with the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kayode Fayemi declared winner. Much of the fear that surrounded…

Exactly on December 12, 2016, I wrote an article predicting that Dubai is going to see its economic fall. I even gave the dates that it may happen by 2018. Here we are in 2018 and Dubai’s economy has started to melt like an ice cone in…

Scene I It’s the zero hour. Nobody slept all night. Everything is set for the war. Commanders are busy, surreptitiously dispatching orders and supplies to the frontlines. The night before the war is the most crucial night. It’s the night…

The Presidency on Sunday descended heavily on the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, over the result of the Saturday governorship election in the state, describing him as “a high-powered nothing.” The Senior Special Assistant…

The mark of African political leadership has too often been characterised by the reneging on pledges of clean government and indulging in corruption. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule. Yet, regrettably, the political classes…

In the history of morally bankrupt governors in Nigeria, Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose had set a standard that's hard to match. The drama of the absurd staged by Fayose feigning  broken neck and broken arm three days ago, evokes…

“Give me a man – one man, One mighty prophet of the Lord, Whose heart is touched by the heavens’ fire, And I will give peace on earth, Bought with a prayer and not a sword.” (George Liddel, quoted in J. Oswald Sander’s “Spiritual…

“Without the tweets, I wouldn’t be here”, American president Donald Trump told the Financial Times in early April. That the most powerful man in the world sees his Twitter account as his most powerful communication tool speaks to how…

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has been  on the rooftop and won’t come down till long after Saturday. He has been screaming, for all the world to hear, that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) plans to rig this weekend’s…

On the basis of the re-appraisals made, the President said that it had become “necessary to re-kit and re-tool our arsenal to be able to affectively tackle corruption’s perilous…

There is no doubt that Nigerians love sports and it is no longer just about entertainment; it is also about making (and losing) money. A whole lot of money. The billion dollar sports betting industry is obviously growing astronomically…

You should have seen me shaking my head in self-pity, as if somebody had just mercilessly slapped me. I had just landed at the “little” Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana, and needed to use the rest room. What I saw startled me.…

Fellow Nigerians, these are not the best of times for the Buhari strategists. Certainly, it can’t be; not with the way they’ve obviously been goading President Muhammadu Buhari on and encouraging him to fight on all fronts, and losing…

State of the nation: In the last two weeks, over 200 persons in Plateau state were reportedly killed by Fulani herdsmen, 45 villages were ransacked and sacked and those villages we are told have been taken over by Fulanis, and the…

Before you criticise this piece, please go back and read many of my predictions and advice to to Ndi Igbo before 2015 presidential election. From late 2013, I started pleading with Ndi Igbo to join and support the APC, even though PDP…

The postmatch words of Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio, criticising Neymar for his simulation and exaggeration, were clearly in part motivated by the bitterness of the 2-0 defeat to Brazil. One moment of Oscar-worthy hysterics aside,…

Yemi Osinbajo, Professor of Law, (SAN), is an accomplished professional.  Unlike many of our politicians,  he has a second address. In other words, outside of government, he can survive, and survive with panache. Before his current…

Quote me: the Plateau killings, in which over a hundred defenceless citizens lost their lives, will not be the last. I am not trying to be a prophet — much less a prophet of doom — but the reality of Nigeria is that things hardly…