COME tomorrow, Nigerians will come out in their multitudes for a nationwide protest initially billed to last for 15 days. It is coming under different hashtags: #EndBadGovernance, #EndHunger, #EndHardship, #TakeItBack, etcetera. These themes are dramatically different from that of #EndSARS protest of October 2020. They are far more existential. Our very lives are on the line. […]

FOR his own purposes, President Bola Tinubu had delayed the appointment of Bayo Onanuga as one of his spokesmen. Ajuri Ngelale, broadcast journalist and Ogoni chief, was presented to give Tinubu’s media office a handsome, though unsmiling face. Many commentators were relieved that elements like Bayo Onanuga, Dele Alake and Festus Keyamo would not be brought […]

SOMETIMES Nigerians rejoice over some government policies only to find out later that they wasted their euphoria. Remember when the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced he would ensure electronic transmission of results in the 2023 general elections. Nigerians rejoiced. The sleeping youth awoke. Everyone headed to voter’s card registration centres. […]

FOR sure, banditry, especially kidnapping for ransom, is one of the three security challenges in Northern Nigeria. The others are Boko Haram/ISWA terrorism in the North-East, and Fulani herdsmen militia, a nationwide terror network. In the South, kidnapping for ransom is in the hands of local criminal gangs. Even our battered Nigeria Police Force, NPF, are […]

THIS article is not really my as sessment of the “performance” of the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Deputy, Vice President Kashim Shettima. There are only two major things to write home about this presidential pair: untold hardship for Nigerians and wasteful spending based on misplaced priorities. Tinubu never enjoyed the usual […]