NIGERIA has always been about influence peddling, nepotism and favourotism, with an insignificant mix of tokenism, which the authorities brandish…
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THAT Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is still a political neophyte is glaring for all to see. Though he joined partisan politics…
TOUCHING down at the bustling Beijing Capital International Airport, you cannot miss that China has again opened to the world…
AT about 1 am, on the cold night of Friday, August 2, 2019, exactly two months after celebrating his 34th…
IT was not meant to be this way. But like a good number of things Nigerian, the story is hardly…
First published on September 23, 2019, and repeated on August 22, 2022. WE have looked at various forms of government…
INDEED Naira, the Nigerian legal tender, has no religion, tribe or tongue. It is common to all of us as…
WHEN the going was good, they were so close that one can mistake them for Siamese twin. Where one is,…
A GOOD number of people, including me, seems opposed to Nigeria leading the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)…
First published on September 23, 2019, and repeated on August 22, 2022. SINCE man became aware of himself and realised…
THREE recent developments are the focus of people with a keen interest in the political affairs of Nigeria at the…
SENATE President, Godswill Akpabio, caught the attention of many Nigerians last week. On Wednesday, at the end of the plenary…
A SEEMING innocuous incident, but of utmost importance, happened on the day, the Niger Republic military adventurists announced the closure…
IF President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hit the ground running, it was because problems chased him into office. Yet, it wasn’t…
NIGERIA is mobilising countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to fight the coup plotters of the…
HUNGER is widespread and chronic in Nigeria, and its prevalence is one phenomenon that statistics cannot fully capture; not even…
THE seven-day ultimatum handed down to the coupists in the Niger Republic by the Economic Community of West African States…
NOT only are military coups becoming frighteningly frequent in West and Central Africa, virtually all of them, it appears, also…
THE eight-year administration of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, was amongst others, characterized by indulgence and generosity to state governors in form…
NIGER Republic is Nigeria’s next-door neighbour. She is not the best neighbour Nigeria would desire but, as a sovereign nation,…