FOLLOWING the G-20 summit held in India, I have been amused by the debate about whether or not Nigeria should be more than a guest again at the next G-20 meeting in Rio, Brazil. If South Africa is a member, why not Nigeria? How do you offer Africa’s largest economy only a complimentary ticket every […]

IT’s not often that you meet Supreme Court justices, serving or retired. I first met retired Justice Sunday Akinola Akintan casually at a reception in Abuja, for my friend and radical lawyer, Yinka Olumide-Fusika, who had been admitted to the inner bar. Then, we met again about one year later, this time, through his book. […]

Except Shaibu intends to make his luck, which will not only include raiding the vote bank in Edo South, but also subverting the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, structure in the state, and overthrowing Obaseki’s ego, history is not on his side.

Abuja needs salvation not from Wike but from decades of elite abuse; otherwise, we may hand the city over to Walt Disney as a zoo franchise! 

IT was not meant to be this way.  But like a good number of things Nigerian, the story is hardly complete without a twist in the tale. And so it has been for at least three years now with the story of the gas car that was supposed to lessen, if not end, Nigerians’ petrol […]

A GOOD number of people, including me, seems opposed to Nigeria leading the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to war in Niger. In one of the most telling anti-war metaphors, a Nigerian columnist and Editor, Lasisi Olagunju, likened military intervention to rubbing buttocks with the porcupine. Doves everywhere are flying the flag of peace. […]

IF President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hit the ground running, it was because problems chased him into office. Yet, it wasn’t long before he tripped on a matter in which his genius has been acknowledged: forming his cabinet. One of his credentials for eight years as governor of Lagos, and even outside public office for 16 […]

WHEN I first voted in an election in Nigeria in 1983, the Internet was just newly born. It had not even been properly named. Forty years later when I voted for the fifth time, my daughter who attained voting age only 13 years ago and has since voted only once, as far as I know, […]

Why can’t AU, especially if the African Export-Import Bank, Afreximbank, the continent’s financial provider, set up a payment and settlement mechanism to facilitate intra-African trade?

You may have seen it. The list, of course. Those who think that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not moving fast enough to appoint ministers have offered to help. They have composed their own ministerial list for him and shared it on social media. It’s trending now.  Just one look at it, however, and you […]