The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has a lot of stuff in its basket at the moment. And there really will be much more as politics heats up. The other day, the Niger State Governor, Muhammed Umaru Bago, woke up one morning, perhaps on a hyperactive mode, and shut down a radio station, Badeggi Radio FM 90.1. […]

Democracies rarely die in one dramatic moment. More often, they are quietly redesigned—clause by clause—until citizens discover that elections still occur, but accountability no longer follows. Nigeria’s democracy is not being overthrown; it is being edited. Not with tanks on the streets, but with provisions in a bill. The most dangerous edits are the ones sold […]

From last week continues the narrative of the arrest and detention of several labour and pro-democracy activists, among them NADECO members, by the Abacha regime. There were also court dramas, including the trial of Chief MKO Abiola on treason charges. There were no known instances of forced exile as a means of political control, although […]

“The chameleon changes colour to match the earth. The earth does not change colour to match the chameleon”.- African proverb. Reports say Senate President Godswill Akpabio recently hit back at critics attempting to push the legislature away from its apparent direction regarding the 2027 elections. He is miffed by those who are either deliberately ignoring key […]

This article could have been titled WHY BUHARI FAILED WOEFULLY or WHY TINUBU INHERITED AN ECONOMY ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE and any of those titles would have been apt. One of our former Sunday Editors forwarded a statement credited to an Emir who was once very close to Buhari when they were both in service. […]

The second Nigerian coup on July 29, 1966 was quite brutal. That is the brutal truth. To avoid what may be brutal, I do not set out to write the truth, but what is historical. There are two main strands protruding from that coup like a buried corpse with  two visible hands. The first is that it […]

​When he presented his budget proposals for 2024 to Nigeria’s National Assembly, the first full year of appropriations under his presidency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu identified as his priorities human asset development, poverty reduction and fighting insecurity.  Last week, his official spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, appeared to forget or renounce that policy direction, when he acknowledged […]

Bearing in mind that a constitution would be unwieldy if it is made to contain every type of provision, other laws, regulations and guidelines are allowed to provide further provisions that would illuminate the not too copious constitutional statements on a particular subject area. The Electoral Act is expected to handle such situations in matters of […]

The great Jamaican reggae crooner, Robert Nesta Marley, aka Bob Marley in the lyrics of his song, ‘Who The Cap Fit’, has a line thus: ‘Who Jah Bless, No One Curse”. The song must have been inspired by his reading of the book of Numbers in the Holy Bible. And it actually addresses hypocrisy and […]

“Against great excellence in another; there is no way of defending ourselves – except love” – Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832. My father prepared me for this assignment at a time when it never occurred to any of us that he could die at an early age. He was a World War II veteran; served in the […]

To the glory of God, we are in the second week of the second month of 2026.    We need to continue to appreciate the LORD for His mercies that endureth forever. Brethren, only God knows what lies ahead for all of us.  What is sure is that some of   those things would please us, some […]

I pity Oshiomhole. At 73, our grandfathers had young wives. The culture of polygamy permitted them to keep a harem to cater to all their fantasies. They probably believed a touch of  nubility was needed to soothe aging nerves and joints, especially when the gaze of the older wives had shifted to their grandchildren. But Western civilisation […]

The Asoebi Boys were meant to be a chapter. Five govs bound by grievance, dressed in coordinated defiance, shaking the foundations of PDP

If all husbands locked their wives at home in the name of religion, which nurse would deliver your baby? Which teacher would stand in your daughter’s classroom?

There is a war story that is not told as often as I would like. Many call it a Christmas story because it happened on a Christmas eve. However it is called, an incident which showed our common humanity occurred on the Christmas eve of 1914 during World War 1. The German forces were arraigned against […]