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 […]

I’ve been in London for the past month; and as always, there is much to comment on. Let me first compare the glaring differences between British public servants and Nigerian public servants. Last week, Angela Rayner was forced to step down as Deputy Prime Minister following an uproar about her failure to pay sufficient tax linked […]

As an Igbo, ever mindful of the country’s chequered political history, when the news filtered in on Saturday that the former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, a scion of the North and major opposition politician, had been whisked away from the venue of the Odenigbo Lecture in Owerri amid protest, my first reaction was, […]

A braggart by nature, President Bola Tinubu is never shy of boasting about what he, self-referentially, believes are his achievements in managing Nigeria’s economy. Recently, he boasted that his administration had met its revenue target for 2025 sooner than expected in August and would no longer borrow domestically. Speaking to members of a group called The […]