ORDINARILY, Bola Ahmed Tinubu should enjoy the first few months in office as his ‘honeymoon period’. Our brand-new President, going…
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LAST week I listened to or read the speech of at least a dozen newly elected governors, and I must…
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu is under fire for announcing that petrol subsidy is gone from day one. His inauguration address…
NIGERIANS will pause today for the inauguration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima as President and Vice President of…
TODAY, May 29th, 2023, the eight-year rule of President Muhammadu Buhari finally comes to an end. In the next few…
TODAY marks the end of the two-term tenure of a man who came with tremendous goodwill, the kind never before…
AT the behest of the legendary Mr. Dan Agbese, renown journalist and author, the article below is a re-publication. The…
AFTER weeks of being at daggers drawn over the results of the last general elections and with only days to…
IN the system of governance we practise, there are three arms – the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The Legislature is…
SEUN Anikulapo Kuti, son of the late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has been in the news lately for the wrong reason.…
No PRESIDENTIAL transition periods are times of excitement, hope, apprehension, speculation, and drama. It is associated with chaos, complexity, and…
TWO presidents in the last 24 years provide interesting examples of how to relate with the National Assembly. And between…
THIS writing was first published on 6 July 2020. With changes of leadership soon at the federal and state levels,…
WHILE putting to ‘bed’ last week’s column titled: ‘Buhari’s Eight-Year Rule: A Postscript (2)’, a friend called to suggest that…
EVERY Nigerian knows that we have an electricity problem. It has been a recurrent sound bite in development discourse in…
IT started like a grudge match. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, was dealt a bad hand in a failed transaction.…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday last week told Nigerians that he has delivered on most of his ‘change agenda’ upon…
MY column of last week with the title “Like Mamu, like Abdulsalami and the billion naira firefighter” drew the attention…
EDUCATION is a critical priority for Nigeria, as it is for any nation serious about growth and development. Unfortunately, in…
IN February 2022, the Ukraine-Russia war broke out and left about 16,000 African students studying there stranded, among which are…