In the incredibly sad courtroom drama of Tali Shani v Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome (2025) UKFTT 1090 (PC), two ordinary Nigerians from unlikely quarters, each doing what would appear to be their daily work, made the difference.  The first was Ibrahim Sani, a superintendent of police at the Force Intelligence Department of the Nigeria Police […]

He is responding to the column that was published on this page on August 28. It used a story about students’ breakfast preferences (many objected to akara and pap) to illustrate how a divided opposition can lose out to an unpopular minority. You can access this column via the Vanguard website. Dear Donu,  I am […]

It is no longer a matter of conjecture. As Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, haughtily announced on August 30, President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, announced the end of the six-month emergency rule he imposed on Rivers State on March 18. Unlike the emergency rule proclamation which he made via a […]

Earlier this week, President Bola Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that the president had cut short his two-week vacation in France and returned to Nigeria “to resume official duties”. Given that Onanuga previously described the president’s trip to France as a “working” holiday, one must wonder why Tinubu stopped working remotely from France. Truth be told, […]

If you are a media person, you sometimes may have to step into a radio booth, anchor a live television programme, moderate a podcast, or make a corporate broadcast to employees. One tool stands between your voice and your audience: the microphone. For many, this small piece of equipment feels intimidating. The red light flicks on, […]

There had been calls to high heavens from different quarters for a National Political Reform Conference. This is so because many believed that the 1999 Constitution bequeathed to us by the military does not adequately represent their interest and aspirations of over 200 tribes, ethnic groups in the geographical area christened Nigeria by Mrs. Lugard. To […]

In a world where distances to jurisdictions can be measured with a flip of the button, happenings between pay-TV operator, MultiChoice and the government of Ghana was keenly followed in Nigeria. In a quirk coincidence, the broadcaster was also having a load of problems in Nigeria and quite a number of people patiently monitored the Ghanaian […]

Siminalayi Fubara, the Governor of Rivers State, is poised to return to office tomorrow after the six months of imposed emergency rule by President Bola Tinubu lapses. Mr. Fubara has undergone the human equivalent of what technology experts call device reset. In the case of the governor, he seems to have experienced a brain reset. He […]

“History will judge those who stood by and said nothing, when they could have done something“–  The Honourable Jeremy Corbin, MP Eighty years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the United Nations was created as humanity’s great experiment in collective security and shared destiny. Its Charter promised to “save succeeding generations from the […]

Barring any last minute hitches, Amaopusenibo Siminalayi Fubara will be back to office as the Governor of Rivers State after enduring his six months “suspension” by President Bola Tinubu. He will not be the same confident, belligerent and defiant rebel who walked away from the Brick House, Port Harcourt on March 18, 2025. The Tinubu/Wike rain […]