In many advanced democracies like the USA, Britain and even our regional neighbour, Ghana, elections are very competitive. A ruling government can be easily voted out. Opposition parties know their day of glory will come if they can get the people on their side. But here in Nigeria, to be in the opposition is akin to being […]

I wasn’t rooting for Chelsea to win the Club World Cup Quarter Final game against Palmeiras. Not me. It wasn’t just because my daughter supports every Brazilian team with the belief that Brazilian footballers are very good, using Neymar as an example, which carries some truth; but for other personal reasons.  Chelsea troubles Arsenal too much in […]

Pause a moment and wrap your mind around the revelation that Nigeria might not have had to borrow one kobo – if only its national oil company had been managed by honest citizens from the Chairmen of the Board of Directors to the gatemen.

The moment of revelation came unexpectedly on a high-speed train leaving Beijing, where a screen showed that 36 per cent of the train’s traction power came from wind energy. Outside, rows of wind turbines turned gracefully under the sun. For someone familiar with Nigeria’s unreliable grid—where diesel generators hum through the night and candles are often […]

“No problem is settled unless it is settled right” — African proverb So, we finally have the outlines of a gathering of familiar politicians congregating under a relatively small political party, the African   Democratic Congress, ADC. It is not,   strictly speaking, a coalition of parties, although the congregation would see it as the trigger for monumental shift,  […]

Tuesday, July 29,2025 will be the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon GCFR. He was overthrown in a bloodless military coup on the same Tuesday, July 29, 1975.  Most of us remember where we were at 6.00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 29, 1975, when the Commander of the Brigade of Guards made the […]

The World Bank in its May 2025 Report stated that 75.5 per cent  of rural Nigerians are engaged in deadly combats with poverty. The number in the urban areas, it said, is 41.3 per cent with an additional 13 million Nigerians, projected to slip below the poverty line by the end of the year. It also stated […]

A little over two decades ago, away from its perception as a shrine for the resolution of the most rarefied disputes in the country, the Supreme Court of Nigeria played host to a Nigerian drama.

“You can’t beat something with nothing” – American baseball team coach after his team lost 17 games in a row.  Since governance has been suspended for active politicking in Nigeria until May 2027, we might as well stop deceiving ourselves and squarely face the issue of selection of our President from 2027 to 2031. In […]

There have always been protests from the days of old like we are told in the Bible. One of such protests was a divinely ordained protest by Moses to King Pharaoh against the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt. Moses’ repeated demands to Pharaoh to “Let My people go” eventually led to the Exodus. However, […]