THE succession battle in Oyo State has become a high-wired political drama with all the major contenders going for one…
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THIS is the fourth time that I have written on this same subject, civic incompetence and danger of complacency even…
WHEN news filtered in last week that Brigadier General Oseni Omoh Braimah, commander of the 29 Task Force Brigade, had…
SIX months after his appointment as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Amupitan appears determined…
NIGERIANS are tired of Nigeria. This is not a radical statement anymore. It is what people say out loud now,…
ON Friday, Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters confirmed the death of the Commander of the 29 Task Force Brigade in Benisheikh, Borno…
SINCE last year, when the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) started ‘acquiring’ State Governors, lawmakers and other politicians elected on…
THERE are more reasons to continue with this discussion point this week on strategic and development plans for revival of…
WHEN news filtered in that the African Democratic Congress had marched to the Indepeendent National Electoral Commission(INEC )headquarters in Abuja,…
THERE are a few countries where lawyers and courts are as gifted in twisting judicial pronouncements as those in Nigeria.…
THE recent UN resolution that recognised the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” did not reverberate across…
THERE is something powerful about a place where people from different backgrounds wake up each day and choose to live,…
FOR about a week, the burning issue in the media space has been the Independent National Electoral Commission’s discontinuation of…
DEMOCRACY does not always die with the crack of gunfire or the drama of tanks rolling into the public square.…
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Thursday last week to condole with the people…
OLUSOLA Oke, SAN will arrive on the 7th Floor on Tuesday April 7, 2026. The fisherman turned lawyer and politician…
THERE is a particular kind of pain Nigerians are now forced to live with the kind that no longer shocks…
JUST when you think the worst is over, Plateau reminds you that in Nigeria, the worst is always warming up…
IN many parts of the country, the rains poured down earlier in the week, bringing much physical and psychological relief…
THERE is a quiet crisis unfolding across Nigeria, one that does not always make the front pages but lives in…