IN politics, moments arise when loyalty to a platform must give way to loyalty to the people. There are seasons…
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THE essay you circulated is rhetorically powerful, but its “simplicity” is achieved by subtracting the very provisions that determine the…
IN a seismic shift that has dramatically redrawn Nigeria’s political landscape, Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang has formally abandoned the…
SOME leaders announce themselves with noise. Others arrive quietly, clothed in simplicity, guided by conscience and driven by duty. Governor…
THE recent pronouncements by Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso regarding Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s strategic political recalibration have finally stripped away…
A STRIKING feature of Nigeria’s current economic debate is the enthusiasm with which huge numbers are circulated and the casualness…
THE recent wave of political “scoops” regarding the purported defection of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State to the…
PUBLIC debate on government finances in Nigeria is once again clouded by confusion, little knowledge, and deliberate misrepresentation. At the…
IF the recent decamping of Peter Obi from the Labour Party to the African Democratic Congress was intended to detonate…
IN many African cultures, a name is not a casual label but a powerful sentence—sometimes a prayer, sometimes a prophecy,…
BARRISTER Abubakar Malami, SAN, has committed awfully bad deeds, especially against me as my first attorney, and his intolerable display…
AS 2025 draws to a close, President Bola Tinubu’s administration presents Nigerians with not rhetoric, but a measurable accounting of…
TO state that there are gaps in the implementation of the 2024 and 2025 budgets is actually stating the obvious.…
I AM currently researching and writing an independent biography of Muhammadu Buhari – a project I commenced in April 2024…
A NATION is not merely a stretch of land marked by borders on a map. It is a will. It…
IN today’s digital age, it’s easier than ever to share our thoughts, opinions, and experiences with the world. Social media…
THERE are moments in life when doing nothing is not weakness but wisdom. When silence is not evasion but care.…
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2026 Budget Speech is remarkable, not only for its rhetorical flourish, it is remarkable, for something…
THE recent public posturing and proxy attacks directed at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by Nigeria’s former Attorney-General…
INSECURITY recognizes no tribe and bows to no religion. It strikes without warning, without names, and without mercy ravaging villages…