“It is unthinkable that wisdom should ever be popular” – Johann Von Goethe, 1749-1832. The most appropriate quotation for this article should have been taken from the Bible: “O foolish Galatians, who had bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth…” (Galatians 3:1.) But, right from the first day of writing columns for VANGUARD […]

Tinubu’s presidency must be closely watched. At inception, it hurriedly sacked ambassadors like it had a clear foreign policy direction to salvage the country. Then for two and half years, it couldn’t nominate ambassadors, leaving the embassies rudderless. In the midst of that baffling shiftlessness, the president globetrotted unperturbed, with the all-knowing ease of a magician. Had […]

What we rarely say, what we almost never say out loud, is that men also live under a clock. They do. We just renamed it.

The question that must now be asked honestly is simple. What is the real cost of the Monday stay-at-home, and who is paying it?

When Governor Caleb Mutfwang formally stepped into the fold of the All Progressives Congress (APC) last Tuesday, it was more than a routine defection ceremony. It was a calculated political signal. And by the time he sat before a select team of visiting editors and declared that Plateau State had become the “crown jewel” in the political […]

I ‘grew up’ with the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way or is it the other way round? I was young, enjoying my first car around the time it was declared open to traffic in the 70s. Living in Lagos with parents in Ilesha meant I had to use the road quite often. Beyond that familial obligation however, was the […]

Religion will play a huge role in the 2027 presidential election as the world continues to watch events unfold in Nigeria, a plural society of diverse ethnic nationalities and multifarious interest groups presently grappling with imbalance. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must find a way to wriggle himself out of the Muslim/Muslim ticket that the All Progressives Congress […]

The dedication or inauguration of Our Lady of Assumption Cathedral, Nnewi, Anambra State on Wednesday 14th January was supposed to be a celebration -of the completion of their Cathedral which had been under construction since 2013. Instead, a nasty controversy ensued when a man was so disappointed, in his own opinion, that the Bishop of Nnewi Dioceses […]

After months of dallying and endless speculations, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State finally broke ranks with Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, his in-law, mentor and political godfather. Yusuf had been in Kwankwaso’s shadow for nearly two-and-a-half decades, serving in various roles, including an executive portfolio as commissioner in Kano State, until 2023, when Kwankwaso nominated him as […]

Much has been said and is being said about the Federal Government’s controversial tax reforms. They got off to a very bad start when some legislators claimed that the version of the law passed by the National Assembly was not the same as the document President Tinubu signed. Ali Ndume, the former Senate Leader, is one […]