From the celebrated verbal excursions of the irrepressible Patrick Obahiagbon to the controversial grammatical gaffes of Governor Monday Okpebholo, Edo State has seemingly gone full circle. But should we care? The latest gaffe by Governor Okpebholo which saw him stutter over figures while delivering his 2025 budget address to the State House of Assembly on […]

The defection of five members of the House of Representatives from the opposition to the All Progressives Congress, APC has inevitably consolidated the position of the ruling party in the polity. The APC which started as a minority in the House of Representatives has by the serial defections of seemingly politically spineless Labour and Peoples […]

The president of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio in the last week subtly gave a hint to Ndigbo on how they can ease the yoke of political marginalization that has been the lot of their people since the 1966 crisis. The new trail for Igbo emancipation surfaced at the night of tributes for the late […]

After its calamitous trouncing in the Edo State governorship election two months ago, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP could be headed towards death if it fails to revive itself in today’s governorship election in Ondo State. However, having repeated the same mistakes it did in Edo State, the prospects of the PDP cashing in on […]

John Wayne’s words that “a man is only as good as his word” shine through in the political appraisal of the person and politics of Dr Doyin Okupe. Okupe burst into the political limelight as one of the leading lights of the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC in the late nineties. His seemingly conservative inclination […]

Two major developments this week suggest that Nigeria’s democracy may not have been totally forsaken as some critics had lately implied. The first on Wednesday was the war of words between the minister of works, Senator David Umahi, and the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on FERMA, Engr.  Remi Oseni. The second ‘cheerful’ […]

For a man who warned the Igbo that they would only get bread soaked in water if they scorned him, it is a shock that President Bola Tinubu has picked one of the finest, fittest, and fondest of that race into his cabinet. The nomination of Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu into the Bola Tinubu cabinet came […]

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, arguably the most stoic political canvasser in Edo State since the advent of the Fourth Republic was there sitting with Senator Monday Okpebholo, the victorious candidate of the APC, the day after the contentious governorship election last September. Ize-Iyamu’s role in the emergence and victory of Okpebhelo had been partly clouded by […]

It was not the first time that Nigeria’s House of Representatives would resort to buffoonery when the members last Wednesday adopted a motion to reject the national honour of Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR bequeathed on Speaker Tajudeen Abbas. Their beef was that the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio was conferred with […]

What may remain etched in the memory of many people following last weekend’s governorship election in Edo State may be the picture of Governor Godwin Obaseki sitting down in the wee hours of Sunday on the corridor of the collation centre of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Benin City all alone. Video images […]