“Move like the chameleon. Keep one eye on the past, and the other on the future”.– African proverb. Last week, several groups, associations, and activists from the northern part of the country came together in Kaduna for what has now become an annual ritual in many parts of the country. This time, though, they made […]

From last week continues the narrative that  a one-party state may not materialise in Nigeria. Among politicians who have seen the high and low of this is Alhaji Sule Lamido who as National Secretary of the defunct SDP was one of those who signed the document that created the Interim National Government Almost 46 years […]

By Dele Sobowale The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been busy since 2023, exposing alleged monumental fraud by top government officials. The latest was the alleged interim forfeiture of 57 properties linked to Abubakar Malami, SAN, the former Minister and Attorney General of the Federation, AGF. Prior to that, the former Governor of the […]

“Power tends to corruption; and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men” – Lord Acton, 1834-1902, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 195. “Money and power of course do drive people crazy. So, why shouldn’t people also gain power and wealth through being crazy?” – Saul Bellow, 1915-2005, VBQ p 195. […]

In 1977 during the first tenure of Olusegun Obasanjo as a military Head of State, the government had issues with Fela Anikulapo-Kuti over his caustic criticisms of the regime. One fateful day, February 18, 1977, a senior military officer ordered about a thousand soldiers to invade Fela’s home he named Kalakuta Republic. They beat up […]

Beloved, last week, we discussed the need to renew your relationship with the LORD. There are several ways to do this and today, we are looking at prayer as a means of communication with God.  Yes, we all know that prayer is channel of communication with the Almighty God but often times, we don’t know how […]

For a very long time, I had stopped watching matches involving the Super Eagles of Nigeria for the simple reason that the team always displayed uninspiring performance. More often than not, they would labour to retrieve the ball from an opponent only to pass it on either to a well-marked teammate or to return it to […]

How does the Confederation of African Football think it is neutral to bring a biased referee to officiate Nigeria’s most important match at AFCON 2025

No one plans to become a baby mama. No one dreams of introducing the love of their life as a baby daddy. It never starts this way.

The defection of Abubakar Atiku Abubakar, son of opposition leader and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, is the latest and perhaps most symbolic precision strike in President Bola Tinubu’s methodical dismantling of organised opposition.  This was not just another politician switching parties. This was intimate. Psychological. Almost theatrical.  A son of the man who wants […]

There are no visible electoral reforms. 2027 will be worse than 2023 on every negative scale. Because the ills of 2023 went unpunished, they have been reinforced. The perpetrators will double their efforts. 2023 and its aftermath have bestowed brazen impunity on the immediate political future. The opposition is endangered. The trajectory is predictable. Consequently, Tinubu has […]

To me, and to many like me, all babies are beautiful irrespective of the place, or the circumstances of their birth – they could be born in a palace or a hut; in a private hospital or a manger; through rich parents or vagrants; in chilly winter or steaming summer for all I care. These wonders of […]

As Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister, continues his long-standing attempts to wrestle his embattled former protégé (Sim Fubara, the Rivers State Governor) to the ground, I find myself mystified. Why? Most of the Rivers people I know are loudly hailing Fubara for rebelling against Wike, his erstwhile mentor, and “rejecting godfatherism”. When I tell them […]

MY fellow countrymen and women are surely in for a very rough ride along a very rough, bad road that leads to nowhere through a wilderness created and sustained by politicians and civil servants. You might like to ask why I’m writing this, or what led me to this conclusion. You see, sometime last year, […]

By Femi Fani-Kayode Sixty years ago, in the early hours of the morning of January 15th 1966, a coup d’etat took place in Nigeria which resulted in the murder of a number of leading political figures and senior army officers. This was the first coup in the history of our country and 98 per cent […]