I HAVE been to a number of budget ‘defence’ sessions in the National Assembly, and some were like bazaar sessions with buying and selling going on. On some occasions, I watched a ‘Distinguished Senator’ who was a Committee Chairman, perform. He was unperturbed that he was sitting in public with journalists present. He left no […]

THE United Kingdom, UK, has become the chief mourner, wailing over the presidential election in Russia which gave President Vladimir Putin a new term. For a country at war and under all sorts of sanctions, it might have been expected that the Russian election would be postponed indefinitely. But it not only held, there was […]

JONATHAN  Ihonde. I never came across a leader so dominant, but invisible. So influential, but unknown. Silent waters, running deep, he was like a wall gecko in the Nigerian house, observing everything, but remaining virtually unnoticed. Traversing the country’s political terrain since the 1960s, a major labour leader for over five decades, accepted leader of […]

Nigeria may not have ambassadors in any part of the world in the next six months; this would mean that under the Tinubu administration, we may not have ambassadors for at least one quarter of its four-year tenure

My conclusion was that the Tinubu administration intends to introduce tuition fees into public tertiary institutions through the backdoor