Before the advent of digital media with its era of quick clicks, the print media was the most enduring means of reaching and influencing minds. This made its practitioners visible and its Editors powerful. And connected. There was therefore, the tendency to see the world as your oyster, or worse, to think the world owed you, […]

Ardent fans of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, BAT, are something else! They can’t abide anyone who doesn’t share their blind allegiance to their hero. They choose to wallow in intellectual dishonesty and to disbelieve deservedly negative stories about his performance and his past. They blame him for nothing that is going wrong in Nigeria. I […]

This is the last thing the African Democratic Congress, ADC, wants to hear, but it has to be said, even if the party digs its thumbs in its ear. It began with the party’s delayed registration.  When things were not moving as quickly as the early defectors, mostly from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had expected, […]

Washington’s three blind mice. Donald Trump, their President. Marco Rubio his Secretary of State and Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defence, now transformed into Secretary of War. A trinity of the greedy, the liar and the lawless, nesting in territorial and colonial delusions. In carrying out mass destruction and massacres as they are doing in Iran, and […]

THE war in the Middle East, being fought by the United States and Israel against Iran, is still raging, and its outcomes are being felt all over the world. In the early days of the war which began February 28, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the aftermath of air strikes on selected targets […]

Nigeria has never had a president like Bola Ahmed Tinubu. For the first time in its recent political history, Nigeria has a president whose standards of political morality can be described as utterly amoral in the sense that he subscribes to the cynical saying, attributed to Vladimir Lenin, that “there are no morals in politics.” Indeed, […]

Last week, I lamented that President Bola Tinubu has hollowed out Nigeria’s democracy. The article generated interested reactions. A regular reader of this column accused me of Tinubuphobia. How is it that you don’t see anything good in Tinubu, he asked. Another sent me a cryptically worded text: “Sour grapes from name-calling!” Some kindred spirits, nonetheless, […]

You’ve prepared for weeks. You know your material inside and out—every statistic, every argument, every supporting detail is committed to memory. You step up to present, confident in your expertise. Yet within minutes, you notice it: eyes glazing over, attention drifting, the subtle shift of bodies in seats as minds wander elsewhere. By the time you […]

On February 18, 2026, I wrote an article on this page titled: “City Boy’s South-East invasion”. It was all about the involvement of some Igbo socialites such as “E-Money”, “Obi Cubana”, “Cubana Chief Priest”, “Zenco” and others in Seyi Tinubu’s City Boy Movement which had just been imported into the South-East. Some Igbo activists felt affronted […]

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other“—  John Adams Few observations capture the enduring dilemma of democratic governance as succinctly as this warning by John Adams. Long before the modern age of mass democracy, Adams understood that constitutions and institutions, however carefully […]

Venerated playwright, Professor Femi Osofisan, once said in one of his books, there is safety in numbers. This is very true of human beings who would always find solace and security with each other but equally more so in subscription business where the subscriber base remains very vital in terms of returns on investment. A good […]

Yesterday President Bola Tinubu began a two-day state visit to the United Kingdom. He was received with his wife, Oluremi, by King Charles III at the Windsor Castle. It’s been nearly four decades, precisely 37 years, since the last Nigerian leader made a state visit to our colonial lords. That was Ibrahim Babangida, a military dictator […]

This is the concluding part of the piece which from last week continues the narrative of how Nigeria, just five years after independence, was asked to host the Commonwealth Conference to find a solution to the Rhodesian leadership crisis which Britain itself could not solve.  Twenty-two Commonwealth leaders accepted to attend the conference.  The January 1966 […]

“A person who sells eggs should not start a fight in the market”.- African proverb There is talk that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s, Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, is defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC. If he does, he will leave only Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde standing as PDP governor. It will […]

By Dele Sobowale Professor Zulum symbolizes the typical Nigerian in power who does “not want to hear the truth”. When he unilaterally granted amnesty to “repentant” 30,000 (or was it 300,000) Boko Haram terrorists, without consultations with the Federal Government, some of us warned him that he was endangering the lives of Nigerians, not only in […]