Our Senate is a luxury. Akpabio, the Senate President, can’t choose his words carefully. Recently, he reminded a female senator that the Senate is not a nightclub. He was rebuking her for not obtaining his permission before speaking. In his flippancy and uncouthness, idleness could be gleaned. Senator Akpabio received a letter from Ganduje, APC […]

It is remarkable that two of the most prominent political actors who topped the news this week on account of their blistering attacks on the performance indices of the Bola Tinubu administration were about the most energetic enablers of Asiwaju’s presidential aspiration. Senator Ali Ndume was until this week, the Senate Chief Whip, and Comrade […]

Now my eyes are on the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) following the appointment of Silas Agara, as Director General, thanks to president Bola Tinubu. For those who do not know him, this DG will make things happen. The job of Deputy Governor in Nigeria seems to move people to their political grave yard. Many […]

Some three and a half decades ago, there was a beggar around the Amuwo-Odofin area – long before the area became this congested – who caught my attention. Dressed mostly in white, he stood apart from the rest. Unlike some others, his disability was obvious- a leg was amputated well above the knees and he […]

THE assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13 at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania has sucked the oxygen from the debate on President Joe Biden’s fitness for a second term. The discussion will resurface, but Democrats should forget it. The party is stuck with Biden. The odds are daunting. It must feel like […]

Just last week, I heaped plaudits on the Nigeria Police Force over the way they neutralised nine kidnappers in the Ladipo area of Lagos. Videos of the gun battle and the resultant casualties are still trending in the social media. The Police remain commended, and indeed are to be congratulated on that feat. I hear that the […]

I AM bemused by the sense of elation exhibited by some government officials and elites that the United Arab Emirates, UAE, has lifted the entry ban on Nigerians. Immediately the announcement was made this Monday, July 15, some Nigerian officials started falling over themselves to assure the UAE that Nigerians would be of good behaviour and, […]

IN his 1994 book, The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia, Brian Hall related his encounters with Serbs, Croats, and Muslims – real people, likeable people – who had been overcome with suspicion and anxiety about one another. He painted the tragic picture of a country, its politics, its history, and its […]

THIS intervention goes against the flow of current popular opinion in Nigeria. There’s a herd mentality, whereby many prominent people are hailing the recent Supreme Court ruling on local government autonomy without thinking about its implications. But as Socrates said, the correctness of an opinion cannot be determined by whether it is held by a majority […]

Dementia humiliates and robs sufferers of joy and dignity.  Dementia kills slowly and silently and relentlessly; and because my mother was semi-comatose for ages and completely lost her mind, her mobility and the power of speech nearly a decade before she actually passed away on July 22,  2023, I describe her gradual departure from her […]

WRITING is a thing. It demands precision and attention to details for you to get it right. Many people hold back from writing because they feel that they always make mistakes in connection with sentence construction, which is what writing is largely about. In this article and in more to follow, I start up a series […]

WITH the recent happenings in the country especially agitation for a new constitution, should it be concluded that democracy is under threat?  I do not think so at all. First, democracy, like a seed, when planted must be allowed to germinate.  For it to blossom to maturity and produce bountiful fruits, it must be nurtured, watered, […]

THERE are very good vibes coming from the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy. They give a good feel to the ears and even more catchy for the eyes. At a press meet which looked more like a well-worked roadshow to promote a new Bill currently with the National Assembly, titled: ‘National Digital Economy and […]

JUST hours after the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, an anonymous “travel advisory” found its way into the internet. It was at once satiric and tongue-in-cheek in its advice to Africans, not citizens of particular countries of the continent, to be wary of travelling to America at these times. The advisory expressed concern about the […]

“To be, or not to be, that is the question”- William Shakespeare THE convergence of liberal political ideas and laissez faire economic philosophy and their transportation into the realm of human rights, have blurred the distinction between right and wrong, and morality and immorality. The elasticity of interpretation of morality in certain lands and climes, […]