In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable transition at the end of which he promised to hand over power to an elected civilian administration.

Right from the days of old, people express rage when things that should be smooth go awry. Especially when they know that efforts have been made to see good results. Notable instance of people expressing rage include Moses who God sent on an errand to deliver the tablet containing the Ten Commandments to the people […]

“Universities across the world rely not only on tuition fees and government/private subvention but also on sustainable financial vehicles such as endowments. An endowment fund ensures financial stability provides long term support for academic excellence, and strengthens a university’s competitiveness. Professor Lawrence I Ezemonye, Vice Chancellor, Igbinedion University, Okada. “Numerous are the streams that lead […]

It is difficult to forget the well-known ideas in political science articulatedand advocated by William J. M. Mackenzie, a British born intellectual giant. Although he died some 3 decades ago, his extensive writings on democracy and political systems remain instructive. In particular, a look athis ideas on the “rules of the game” in politics would almost […]

President Bola Tinubu’s recent dismissal of Fegho Umunubo, his Special Assistant on Digital and Creative Economy who worked directly under Vice President Kashim Shettima, has triggered a fresh wave of speculation about the power dynamics inside Aso Rock. To many observers, the terse announcement that came from the president’s office, rather than the vice president’s, is another […]

Ballots are cast, results are announced, but power is… is negotiated in living rooms, brokered at midnight, and auctioned to highest patron

The societies that thrived were not those that prayed the loudest but those that trained their young to question, reason, and innovate

The men elected in 1999, for all their faults, would never abandon their states just to line up at an airport and wave at a departing president.

A few days ago, things fell apart in Nepal. The country had seen political instability and grinding poverty in recent times, but this week it saw  the gates of hell open. The parliament was burnt. The presidential palace was ransacked. The government fled. Ministers were dragged through the streets and chased into rivers. The youths said they […]

The age for admission of students into Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions is becoming an unending conundrum with no immediate end in sight. With heightened emotions and personal interest, it gets even more interesting and complicated. Last Tuesday in the heavy rain, a group of concerned parents under the banner of  The Movement Against JAMB Injustice  […]

The load on any country’s No One Citizen can be very heavy. This makes them want to decompress and unwind from time to time in order to avoid a total breakdown.  However, when a US President wants to take a break, he usually goes to Camp David; or in the case of the current President, […]

King Jaja’s rise from treachery to the throne continues to fascinate me not simply for standing up against Imperialist oppressors, his place of birth, Amaigbo, is just a stone throw from my village. Born free, he was shackled into slavery and ended up founding Opobo in 1869. That is my attraction to Opobo, a town in today’s […]

MIDWEEK, one commodity that we need badly in this country, but which is perpetually in short supply forced its way into our consciousness again, as it did, 12 times last year. It is electricity, whose transmission is effected through what we all now know as the National Grid. The grid very often, behaves like what […]

Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, is hardly in the news. Lawal has enough on his plate in a region struggling with banditry and insurgency, and in a state whose political heavyweights oppose him over political differences.  He has learned to mind the state’s business, hardly ever throwing stones except when attacked by Abuja politicians who […]

Israel, under the Nethanyahu regime, and shielded from international sanctions by countries like the United States, US, and Britain, has become like a rabid dog. Just on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, it carried out a second attack within 24 hours on a flotilla in the Tunisian port planning to break its aid blockade of Gaza. The […]