Goodluck Jonathan: Nigeria’s most cowardly politician! By Olu Fasan
Twice in recent presidential election cycles, Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s former one-term president, allowed speculations to spread like wildfire that he would seek the presidency again. But twice, without as much as a whimper, the speculations fizzled out into thin air like a puff of wind. Recently, Jonathan issued an angry rebuttal to an allegation that he […]
The Dollar fetish, SUVs and the colonisation of the African mind, by Usman Sarki
“The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards”,– Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks In the nineteenth century, many African communities exchanged their lands and even their kin for beads, mirrors, trinkets, and other fanciful objects of vanity that European traders dangled before them. These […]
Politics of Lagos Igbo property demolitions, by Ochereome Nnanna
The emergence of Senator Bola Tinubu as the “winner” of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, governorship ticket on December 21,1998, unknown to many, marked a major historic turning point for Lagos State. Ordinarily, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the man in charge of the party’s primaries in Lagos, should have insisted on a rerun. He did not, mainly […]
Flowers for Arise News, by Okoh Aihe
I am fascinated by the packaging of Arise News. History is unfolding before our very eyes and we hardly know it. Global TV depends on premium TV programming to attract TV eyes. Everyday, Arise News delivers something substantial, always leaving enough juice to titillate the senses of those who love or hate them. And they come […]
ELECTRICITY: FG’s debt hits N6trn as GenCos push for urgent payment
By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja Power generation companies, yesterday intensified pressure on the Federal Government (FG) to urgently address the worsening liquidity crisis in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) as debts owed to them have risen to N6 trillion. The Chairman of the Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC) Board, Col. Sani Bello (Retd), expressed concern […]
The ever-lingering Benue-Plateau crisis(2), by Eric Teniola
From last week continues the narrative on the Benue-Plateau crisis based on early encounters with Chief Solomon Lar in Jos and Chief Joseph Tarka in Makurdi. I visited Makurdi for the first time in 1977, courtesy of Chief Joseph Sarwuan Tarka. On March 30, this year, it was 45 years that Chief Joseph Sarwuan Tarka (July […]
It’s all so confusing, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
On all matters of national security, the responsible thing to do is exercise restraint, discretion and distance as dictated by one’s proximity to facts and commitment to the general good. Precisely for the same reasons, however, matters involving lives and livelihoods, peace and public safety cannot be left entirely to leaders. There is a huge […]
We must save Dangote Refinery at all costs
By Dele Sobowale “Our refinery has recorded 22 incidents of sabotage” — Dangote Nigerian history, since my return from the US in 1974, has always made me to thank God, that I not only read History as an elective subject as an undergraduate in the US; but, that the interest remains abiding. In fact, if I […]
Seismic shifts and power contestation between Nigerians and government, by Owei Lakemfa
Aliko Dangote has become the first African-born billionaire to reach and surpass a $30 billion net worth. This October, 2025, with a new valuation gain of $430 million, he achieved a net worth of $30.3 billion. But, his on-going quixotic contestations with the Nigerian Constitution and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR, may turn […]
Ese Oruru: The inspiring triumph of a survivor
In April 2020, then governor of Kano State in north-west Nigeria, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, took time off his expensive preoccupation with denying the ravages of the Corona Virus on his state to preside over the “conversion” to Islam of two adolescent females.
Gold diggers and cradle snatchers, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
Sunderland climbed to second in the Premier League as Chemsdine Talbi’s stoppage time winner stunned Chelsea, while Newcastle also struck late to beat Fulham 2-1 on Saturday.
Hon Benjamin Kalu, a quintessential legislator, by Dele Sobowale
“Legislators have the first place in the temple of glory; conquerors come behind them” – Voltaire, 1694-1778, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 126. Voltaire, the French philosopher, was writing at the dawn of history of democracy; and at a time and country elected representatives of the people actually went into parliament to represent them. Nigeria […]
Another unpalatable story, by Patrick Omorodion
When Anezi Okoro wrote his comedic novel, One Week, One Trouble, about a boy who got into trouble in school almost every week, he never knew it would fit into the character of the Nigeria Football Federation, especially the current one headed by Ibrahim Musa Gusau. Like the proverbial tortoise that is always in the […]
Who is in Nursery School, My Child or Me?, by Stephanie Shaakaa
Once upon a time, nursery school was where children learned to sing rhymes, draw the sun with yellow crayons, and stumble through the alphabet
Where did the gain go? The silence after surplus, by Stephanie Shaakaa
When there’s a deficit you shout and go borrowing, but when there’s a surplus no one gives account
These defections and this democracy, by Ugoji Egbujo
Gov. Peter Mbah has left the PDP for the ruling party. Gov. Diri is packing his defection bags. Gov. Soludo is proposing an alliance of the progressives: a capitulation that spares him the tag of a defector. Fubara is a caged bird. Adeleke is keen to defect. By 2027, all the state governors in the south could […]
