IN the August 28, 2024 edition of my column, titled PDP on Self-Destructive Path?, I touched on the dangers of…
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“PDP will rule Nigeria for the next 60 years.” That was Prince Vincent Ogbulafor in 2008, chest out, voice full…
WHEN six states in Nigeria’s South-West zone came together in January 2020 to create Amotekun, a regional security outfit to…
EVERY year on International Women’s Day, conversations about women usually revolve around empowerment, opportunity, and progress. Yet in recent years,…
WHEN, on February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale offensive against the Islamic Republic of Iran,…
POLITICAL violence never truly arrives unannounced. Before it explodes, it rehearses itself in smaller scenes: a rally disrupted, a convoy…
THE distance between Nigeria and Israel is approximately 3,642 kilometres (2,263 miles). If you are to fly directly from Lagos…
INCREDIBLE as it may sound, the captive of the terrorists, Citizen Leah Sharibu, The Guardian’s 2018 ‘Person of the Year’…
OVER the weekend, I stumbled upon a troubling video circulating on the streets of the Obasanjo internet, posted by Dan…
ON Monday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu nominated Taiwo Oyedele as the Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Anite-Uzoka,…
THESE are sad times. Who could have believed that after the US and its allies destroyed Iraq in search of…
AS it stands today, almost every Nigerian knows or has some information about how the payment of ransom and the…
THE news from Keffi Road last week was heartbreaking. Five people lost their lives in a crash that has once…
DESPITE weeks of agitation over a controversial clause that makes the electronic transmission of election results optional, President Bola Tinubu…
ON August 15th, the people of Osun State will head for the poll to elect a new Governor. The incumbent,…
EVEN as the authorities in Nigeria grapple with the expediency of legalising the much talked about state policing as a…
YOU wake up, and you are hit with: The wars brewing and happening. Fresh bandit attacks on innocent villagers, new…
LAST weekend, the Federal Capital Territory area council elections held and for the first time in recent memory, all eyes…
MY mother used to warn me that the words of my mouth could claim my head if I weren’t careful.…
THE two contiguous states of Niger, Kwara and to some extent Kogi have been at the short end of the…