ON SATURDAY, April 25, 2026, opposition political parties, led by the usual culprits, Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Peter Obi,…
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I GOT to Abeokuta on Thursday, April 30, to prepare for what fans dubbed the double celebration of the former…
CAN Nigeria’s states become true engines of development, or are they condemned to remain administrative outposts of a distant federal…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Thursday last week, named Joseph Olasunkanmi Tegbe as his new Power Minister. He also forwarded his…
I WAS ruminating over the values, content, context and even competencies around ‘consensus building’ which dominates the ongoing leadership recruitment…
EVERY year on May 1st, they gather and celebrate Workers’ Day, a day set aside to appreciate the Nigerian worker.…
THERE is an extra lament in town. It is not the price of petrol or diesel . It is more…
A 28-YEAR-OLD man named Mene Ogidi sat on the ground in Effurun, Delta State on April 26, 2026. His hands…
LISTENING to Kenyan President William Ruto diss Nigerians with a smile from faraway Italy, one would think he had taken…
EVERY few weeks, a family somewhere in Nigeria receives the kind of news that no amount of prayer or preparation…
WHEN the newly appointed Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, was first elevated to Minister…
IT is becoming increasingly clear that the 2027 general elections may have been won and lost even before the first…
WHILE he was still basking in the euphoria of realising a lifetime ambition in March 2023 as president-elect, Asiwaju Bola…
THERE’s a difference between living and surviving, but in Nigeria, we’ve blurred the line so badly that we now celebrate…
SINCE 1999 when Nigeria returned to democratic rule, no word has been weaponised more selectively in our political dictionary than…
THE short answer is yes – but there’s a long answer. There is, in fact, more than one inside story…
A RECENT comment by Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State on the bombing of Jilli market by the Nigerian Air…
THERE’s something deeply wrong with a society that has learned to hear gunshots and believe its a party. In too…
WHILE pondering over the current sub-par economic situation of Nigeria, despite six decades of post-independence policy-making and political rhetoric amid…
WHEN the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board invited me to Yenagoa as a guest author and lead facilitator for…