In his latest tirade about the state of the nation (clear evidence of aggravated trauma following the gut punch he received from Abuja when the Senate rejected his nomination as a ministerial nominee), Nasir el-Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna State and election-time supporter of Bola Tinubu, has described the Tinubu administration as the worst Federal […]

In the common law world, some countries maintain a split legal profession by separately recognising the roles of “barrister” and “solicitor”. This division stems primarily from historical ties to the British legal system and reflects differing responsibilities and professional pathways within the legal field. Countries such as the United Kingdom (particularly England and Wales), Australia, Canada […]

Before his sudden, mysterious death, former Head of State, General Sani Abacha, left us with an enduring, prophetic soundbite. He said: “If an insurgency lasts for more than 24 hours, then, know that government has a hand in it”. Way back on May 8, 2014, The Cable newspaper published a retweet of the late General’s daughter, […]

“The President shall hold regular meetings – for the purposes of (a) determining the general direction of domestic and foreign policies of the Government of the Federation”- Section 148(2), Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended) of 1999 A holistic conceptualisation and implementation of the “4Ds” agenda will require a robust assessment of the […]

The unveiling of the Artificial Intelligence Collective last week by Dr Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, is a good call by the Nigerian government to play a lead role in the development and deployment of AI to resolve socio-economic challenges while developing new opportunities. The Collective is a gathering of experts […]

China and Nigeria, two continental giants that entered the late 1970s with similar per capita incomes, have since taken opposite economic trajectories. In China, the decisive moment was Deng Xiaoping’s 1978 decision to “open the windows” and let the world’s capital know-how to blow in. In Nigeria, the same decade ushered in the oil boom that […]

From last week, the Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, on May 29, 1962, summoned an emergency meeting of the Federal House of Representatives which was then the Federal Parliament in Lagos and moved a motion on the Action Group crisis  The motion reads thus: “I rise to move the Resolution standing in my name which […]

Adelabu Adegoke was one of the most flamboyant and charismatic politicians in      pre-independence Nigeria.    When one day, the press asked him about deliberations in the Western Region    House of Assembly, he replied that it was a “peculiar mess”. He pronounced the words with a Yoruba intonation making the two words sound […]

DISCO hiked my bill from N2.7m to N29m” — Lagos Deputy Gov. The report in a national newspaper of April 15, 2025, provided the best opportunity for all stakeholders to re-visit the matter of privatisation of electricity supply to Nigerian consumers. Put bluntly, Nigeria’s electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) have become the greatest fraudsters in the […]

On the evening of 5 April 2012, the prime-time bulletin on the television news of the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), announced to the country that the president, Ngwazi Professor Bingu wa Mutharika, “had been taken ill and had been flown to South Africa for specialist treatment.”