The Ondo Air Crash: Mourning Is Not Enough – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
ON Monday, a Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 aircraft, NAF 931, took off from Benin on what the Air Force described as a routine.
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Of Kano, Classrooms And The Misconceptions We’ve Been Feeding On – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
LAST week, something happened that I almost scrolled past out of sheer habit. Kano State came first in the results released by the.
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Minna: When The State Becomes The Undertaker – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
ON the nights of September 15 and 16, operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps stormed the Wushishi-Lukoto area west of.
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Removal Of Electricity Subsidy? Perish That Thought – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
NIGERIANS have barely caught their breath from the fuel subsidy removal and the floating of the naira, and here comes the Federal Government.
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Of Petrol Promises, Political Seduction And Matters Arising – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
CAMPAIGN season is here, and with it comes the yearly ritual of Nigerian politicians turning into men wooing a lady they have no.
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Subsidy Grammar, Campaign Promises And The Missing How – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
THE 2027 campaign has officially kicked off, and I dare say this is shaping up to be one of the most interesting political.
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Osun, Bloodshed And A Ballot Under Siege – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
I DON’T think in recent memory, any by-election in this country has generated as much blood, bile and bad blood as Saturday’s Osun.
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Of Tinubu, EFCC And The Osun Timing – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
ON Wednesday, August 5, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission walked into a bank in Osogbo with a letter and quietly strangled the.
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A Nation Of Mobs – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
LET me start with a name. Ibrahim Pilasar Mbaya. Twenty-five years old. University of Jos graduate. Model. Known to his friends as Ibee..
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2,747 Bills, 68 Broken Promises And The National Assembly’s Last Chance – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
LAST week, the 10th National Assembly held its Open Week in Abuja, three days of events, presentations and self-congratulation themed around the slogan.
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Rescued Children, Fallen Heroes And A Salute To Our Troops – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
ON Friday, July 10, something happened that made millions of Nigerians exhale. After 56 grueling days in the forests of the Old Oyo.
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Northern Governors, A Security Fund And The Hard Road Ahead – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
THE 19 northern governors have finally done something many of us have been asking for since insecurity turned the region into a killing.
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Ekiti Elections And The Lessons We Keep Refusing To Learn – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
AFTER every off-cycle election, I make it a habit to sit down and do a proper post-mortem. Not the kind where you pretend.
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Ekiti Elections And The Lessons We Keep Refusing To Learn – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
AFTER every off-cycle election, I make it a habit to sit down and do a proper post-mortem. Not the kind where you pretend.
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Oshiomole, Akpabio And The Senate Throne – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
THERE is a war raging in the Red Chamber. Not a war of ideas , God forbid we should ever be so lucky.
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Of 27 Years Of Democracy, Civilian Dictators And The Long Road Ahead – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
EVERY June 12, we dust off the rhetoric, wave the green-white-green a little harder than usual, and remind ourselves that Nigeria chose democracy..
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Insecurity And The Merchants Of Panic – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
LET’s get something straight. Nigerians are going through one of the toughest security periods in the history of this country. What is happening.
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Lessons From Party Primaries – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
NOW that the dust has settled on most of the party primaries, let us have an honest conversation about what we actually witnessed..
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Jonathan’s 2027 Gamble: Ambition Without A Base – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
THE news that former President Goodluck Jonathan may be nursing serious ambitions to return to Aso Rock in 2027 hit me the way.
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Can Nigeria Be Fixed In Four Years? – By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
PETER Obi means well. I will give him that much. The Labour Party presidential candidate turned Nigerian Democratic Congress ( NDC) likely flagbearer.