President Bola Tinubu needs help at this time to save him from politicians who are running him out of relevance with obnoxious policies. In all this, Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, appears to be the only true friend around. Obi is the only genuine opposition that all eyes can see. Representing the Labour Party, […]

The CBN is suddenly running helter-skelter. It’s a pitiable sight. A regulator running around like a motor boy throwing wooden wedges to stop a bolekaja from rolling down a hill. Ironically, many are clapping for the CBN, which is fiddling with the barricades after many horses have bolted. It’s all the heart-wrenching coming after Mad […]

The process to pick the candidates of the major parties in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State starts today with the election of ad-hoc delegates by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The PDP has as usual adopted the indirect option of choosing delegates to nominate its candidate in a congress to be held on […]

The stupefying “I don’t care” attitude with which Nigerians have greeted the terrible news that three West African nations have taken their exit from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is alarming. Hey, why would we have so under-appreciated the idea of ECOWAS? Or is it because ECOWAS never really achieved what it […]

An In-Law and Big Brother had to go from Abuja to Otukpo in Benue State for an event that could neither be shifted nor avoided. Ordinarily, the trip is a breeze. I had taken that trip with him a few times in the past and I usually looked forward to it as it afforded me […]