NYESOM Wike has spent the better part of a decade rewriting what political dominance looks like in Rivers State. He…
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GRADUALLY, the nation is moving towards the days of decision, when Nigerians will, once again, decide those who will lead…
I HAD earlier spoken about intubation. It is a medical procedure involving the insertion of a flexible plastic tube into…
OPPOSITION political leaders in the country on April 25, gathered in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to discuss how to…
THE Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) and Founder of Baze University, Datti Baba-Ahmed, this week approved the appointment…
THERE was a time Nigerians believed freedom of speech was a right. Today, many people treat it like a risk.…
SOMETHING is quietly wrong inside the ruling All Progressives Congress, and the party’s handlers either don’t see it or they…
THE former Labour Party presidential flagbearer, Peter Obi, thinks he is Nigeria’s most misunderstood politician. Why is it hard for…
ON SATURDAY, April 25, 2026, opposition political parties, led by the usual culprits, Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Peter Obi,…
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…