AS you read this, the nation is awaiting the results of the presidential election held two days ago – some…
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IT is now a cliché that this election is a make-or-mar election for Nigeria. It is our way of saying…
The death of a thousand good men is not as tragic as having an unfit man in a position of…
By Martins Oloja THE expression, ‘the North is organising while the South is agonising’ is quite common on this page…
IT’S hard to imagine that it’s nearly eight years since. This time in 2015, I was over the moon with…
By Martins Oloja AT this time when even the First Bank cannot truly be the first to make new Naira…
HOW does one measure success in life, career, business, or politics? There are different yardsticks for different folks. Some measure…
THERE is something about Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Jagaba of Borgu and the presidential candidate of the All Peoples Congress…
NIGERIANS are facing the reality of scarcity of cash literarily. Banks are overwhelmed by angry customers demanding money, the ATMs…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s followers, therefore, created in him an image of an ascetic, beyond reproach, and so canonised him as…
AT first, he appeared to be the most unlikely candidate for the task. After his fifth attempt at running for…
By Suleiman Hassan Gimba Esq TO the average Yobean, Buhari’s visit to Yobe State, where he commissioned excellent projects by…
THE theatricals for winning the hearts and minds of the voters are all around us. The perceptual game of showing…
By Martins Oloja THERE is a sense in which one can run away with some perception that government is fully…
IN over two decades since Nigeria’s return to constitutional democracy, this is the longest politicians have had to campaign before…
WILL 2023 be a defining moment for the Nigerian youth and the future of Nigeria? Obviously a slippery question that…
PERHAPS in the future, politicians, political analysts, strategists, scientists and consultants may want to look at one or two things…
HER funeral rites would have begun on Wednesday, January 11, but were postponed because her family, along with the Nigerian…
THE inauguration of the Management Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) last week, the second under President Buhari, was…
I’M sure he expected the firestorm. As is his custom, he primed and released it to explode at his own…