Nollywood star Mercy Johnson-Okojie’s appointment as Special Adviser on Public Engagement and Advocacy to Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo marks more than a routine celebrity crossover into government.  It is a signpost of Nigeria’s evolving political culture, where fame, narrative power and emotional connection increasingly shape political legitimacy and governance communication.  In a media-saturated democracy, celebrities […]

Before now, not many people outside the South-West, especially inner Lagos circles knew, or bothered about the “City Boy” phenomenon. It was a byname invented for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by his followers at the outset of the 2023 political season to emblematise his “street-smart” persona which has enabled him to streak from nowhere to President […]

It is so irritating that some mischievous elements in the deservedly dying Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the Ngwa axis in Abia State have continued to tease the Governor of the State, Dr Alex C. Otti (CON) with the issue of whether or not he is a full-blooded Ngwa person. I saw a recent Facebook post […]

President Bola Tinubu’s spokesmen have been oddly quiet over two very grave accusations which portrayed their principal possibly as a part of our security problems.  When 25 students of Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga in Kebbi State were abducted about ten days ago, the state’s Governor, Mohammed Idris, made a shocking disclosure. He said his […]

Nigeria is subtly being subjected to a sort of change that many of us could never have imagined in our wildest dreams. If we do not wake up now and smell this coffee, it may become too late. Those pursuing this change are armed to the teeth, sumptuously funded by local and international facilitators in the […]

When US President, Donald J Trump, released a barrage of scorching, uncomplimentary posts on his social media handles about Nigeria over the weekend, his Nigerian counterpart, Bola Tinubu, nearly fell into a trap. There were calls from some quarters that he should “engage” Trump, rather than let loose his propaganda officials. We started hearing that he […]

The emergence of Senator Bola Tinubu as the “winner” of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, governorship ticket on December 21,1998, unknown to many, marked a major historic turning point for Lagos State. Ordinarily, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the man in charge of the party’s primaries in Lagos, should have insisted on a rerun. He did not, mainly […]

The greatest oxygen of insecurity in Nigeria is what people call “political correctness”. Most people do not want to call a spade by its name. The question of whether there are Christian genocides in Nigeria should not arise. Routine Benue and Plateau mass burials say it all. The miasma of these massacres of Christian populations in […]

I have had several reasons to take on His Excellency, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Executive Governor of Anambra State. For instance, I felt it was imprudent of him to truculently target Peter Obi the way he did during and after the 2023 political season. Obi was running for president, and Soludo was already a Governor. Soludo’s […]

By the time you read this, President Bola Tinubu may have read the traditional Independence Day national broadcast. It is usually full of platitudes used to inspire the citizenry, reassure them of the glorious promises of the nation despite present challenges, forge national unity and patriotism and encourage the people to be ready to lay down […]