Since the rift between Nyesom Wike, the former Rivers State governor, and Siminalayi Fubara, his successor, burst into the open in October 2023, I have written four articles on the saga. The last before this piece was titled “Blame Tinubu for the impending political inferno in Rivers” (Vanguard, May 23, 2024). That intervention was prescient, as, […]

The state of emergency President Bola Tinubu imposed on Rivers State is like bringing down fruit and force-ripening it for consumption. Since the All Progressives Congress, APC, was born through the merger of legacy political parties of Muhammadu Buhari (Congress for Progressive Change, CPC), Bola Tinubu (Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN) and others on February 6, […]

“The economic factor in the politics of a country is always a difficult matter to discuss, for it is made up of infinite details, some of them purely speculative, all of them hard to disentangle”- John Buchan Presuming that there is a political class in Nigeria that is both visionary and patriotic, this series of articles […]

By Afe Babalola The Nigerian social media space has been awash with reactions over the recent declaration of state of emergency in Rivers State.  On Tuesday March 18, 2025, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State. This declaration was made pursuant to section 305(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic […]

Once upon a time, there was an Access Gap Map prepared by the Universal Service Provision Fund, USPF. The map showed details of remote sites in the country or locations in not-too-distant environments where telecommunications services were not available. The Nigerian Communications Act, NCA, 2003 recognises these areas or groups in Section 113 as unserved, underserved […]