NEARLY six (6) weeks into the US/Israel-Iran war, the effects are being felt worldwide. This is because fuel energy became an unwilling victim caught in the crossfires of the warring parties. You are abreast of issues, but let me remind us that about 20 per cent of the world’s energy is transported through the Straits of Hormuz, […]

I’ve concluded that President Tinubu’s relentless and often clandestine assaults on his opponents boil down to psychological warfare.  He WANTS us to lose faith in the system and throw our hands up in despair and lose the will to actively seek alternative leadership. If you make people suffer, they become physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted and it […]

It was too quick. Humanity heaving a sigh of relief on Tuesday, April 7, 2026 when a two-week ceasefire in the United States/Israel-Iran war came into effect.  The very next day, one of the most savage attacks in the war took place in Lebanon. Israel, a sidekick of the US, carried out a series of deadly […]

Recently, after the mass killing in Jos, Plateau State, President Bola Tinubu said he was not elected “to comfort and create widows and widowers”. Yet since he became president barely three years ago, his administration has overseen the creation of thousands of widows, widowers and orphans whose husbands, wives and parents were killed in terrorist attacks. […]

Electoral umpires in Nigeria have a long history of dalliance with academics so much so that it has almost become a rule for a professor, the discipline notwithstanding, to be appointed chairman. Granted, some non-academics sometimes find themselves in the saddle, but that is more of an exception. So, the 1959 federal election, which preceded […]