In less than 4 months from now, Nigeria will hold its 2027 general elections; yet, not many would believe the assurances by the electoral body that the process will be free and fair.  No one can blame the doubting Thomases because the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC is notorious for not keeping its word. Just […]

With the January 16, 2027 presidential election approaching, several of prominent opposition figures are once again pursuing separate tickets.

By the time Alhaji Bamanga Tukur entered the last major chapter of his public career as National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, he had already built a name that did not depend on politics. Indeed, politics was only one strand in an extraordinary career spanning port administration, business, government and pan-African economic advocacy. Tukur, […]

Many in my generation grew up reading all of Ian Fleming books. For the information of the younger generation, Ian Fleming was the original creator of James Bond, that handsome, debonair but extremely ruthless British Spy whose exploits entranced the whole world when they were eventually captured on celluloid. James Bond was the one and […]

In 2006, when the Borgu Emirate chose Tinubu, it could not have known it was choosing a future commander-in-chief as its chief warrior. Twenty years later, the jackpot looks like rotten luck: no better than a dud cheque. Achebe said a man cannot live by the riverbank and wash with spittle. If only Borgu could […]